Today Friday, January 17th, 2020
Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Traffic and Telecommunication (TEATT), Ms. I. Ingrid Arrindell and the Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (VSA), Mr. Emil Lee, and respectiv…
by Bajan Reporter • February 21st, 2016 • 0 comments 
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Over the past year I have become more aware of the prevalence of hypertension in Barbados. Late last year I heard a newscast on the radio one night that spoke about the dangers of high blood pressure …
by Bajan Reporter • February 20th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
Galen, a Roman physician, in the first century was the first to speak about the heart and its two chambers but not until Karl von Vierordt in 1854 devised the sphygmograph, taken from the Greek words …
by Bajan Reporter • February 20th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
Men’s Forum “Truths and Myths of Prostate Cancer” at 6:00pm at the Grande Salle, the forum is open to males and females. This forum has been granted 2 credits from the Barbados Medic…
by Bajan Reporter • February 14th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
Thirty-three year-old Tania Goring, who has been hospitalised in the Medical Intensive Care Unit for the past 43 days, is urgently in need of O Negative or B negative blood. Persons, between the age o…
by Bajan Reporter • February 14th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
Belmont Road recently looked like when cinemas used to have the latest kung fu movie, with a string of men waiting out on the street – but what they’re looking to beat was not Silver Fox, but to w…
by AirBourne • February 14th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )
There is a call for men to do their part to live longer and help their families, and part of it is making a simple yet once costly exam easier on the Barbadian pocket. She said how exams are all happe…
by AirBourne • February 4th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
As Barbados’ methodologies to treat illness become more sophisticated, the result means taking on more responsibility globally. Health Minister John Boyce, after a significant delay, finally add…
by AirBourne • January 24th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Health )
The government of Barbados now has an option and an alternative to the shortage of trucks as it relates to garbage collection. Businessman Anderson Cherry has written to the Government, The Minister o…
by Bajan Reporter • January 18th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
Twenty fifteen was the driest year on record since the documentation of rainfall began in Barbados in 1942. This declaration made by Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Manage…
by Bajan Reporter • January 17th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
Barbados has recorded its first three cases of the Zika virus. The Zika infection is a mild, febrile viral illness transmitted by the bite of a Zika virus-carrying Aedes aegyti mosquito, which is the …
by Bajan Reporter • January 17th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
The Ministry of Health on Nevis is urging women who are or have been sexually active to take advantage of its Pap Smear Drive for the occasion of Cervical Cancer Month observed in January. According t…
by Bajan Reporter • January 15th, 2016 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
The mosquito-borne Zika virus is getting closer to Barbados with nearby French island, Martinique, becoming the latest Caribbean country to report confirmed cases. That island is the 11th country in t…
by Bajan Reporter • December 28th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
For the second successive year, the Barbados Cancer Society and the National HIV/AIDS Commission have benefitted from more than $10,000 in support from telecoms provider, Flow. As part of the company&…
by Bajan Reporter • December 26th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB) continues to exercise good corporate citizenry with the presentation of a cheque for $25 000 to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital recently. The fun…
by Bajan Reporter • December 26th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Many Barbadian females who experience surgery may have spent weeks or months recuperating, this is now a thing of the past… Dexter James, CEO of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital was addressing colle…
by AirBourne • October 25th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
They say you can find a Bajan anywhere in the world and the latest such traveller is doing their part to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone. Alvin Hart, is a Registered Nurse who works with the Infection Con…
by AirBourne • October 20th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Breaking News, Featured, Health )
Children and parents living with autism are set to benefit from a new partnership between local charity More4Kids and telecommunications provider Flow. As part of the Autism Awareness Project, which i…
by Bajan Reporter • October 12th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Almost two hundred (200) persons with disabilities (PWD) will now be able to access more convenient transportation in their daily lives. This is thanks to a second fully accessible bus donated by The …
by AirBourne • October 12th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
Two teams from the the Queen’s College Debating Society will tackle this topic: “Should Marijuana Be Legalized In Barbados?”
by DevilsAdvocate • October 6th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
A number of local and regional corporate entities and their staff will be joining employees of CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank and the Barbados Cancer Society (BCS) Breast Screening Programme i…
by Bajan Reporter • October 3rd, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
This October, Barbadians can “Embrace the Cause” and join Payless ShoeSource and the Breast Screening Programme of The Barbados Cancer Society in the fight against breast cancer with the p…
by Bajan Reporter • October 2nd, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The Republic of China (Taiwan) has demonstrated its understanding of technology in enhancing services by presenting a much needed Information System and wheel chairs to the Nevis Island Administration…
by Bajan Reporter • September 28th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. He retreats further into a self-destructive, hedonistic lifestyle, but as his mother battles a serious illn…
by Bajan Reporter • September 27th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Cinema, Health, Video Gallery )
Children in need of medical attention – who live with Scoliosis (curvature of the spine) or Rickets (softening of leg bones and knee joints) – and other challenges now have an affordable m…
by AirBourne • September 27th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
