Today Friday, July 21st, 2017
The Ministry of Health is advising both polyclinic and outpatient clinic pharmacies, which operate under the aegis of the Barbados Drug Service, will each be closed for one day during March to facilit…
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Bajan Reporter • March 3rd, 2015 • 1 comment 
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Led by the United African Congress, Give Them a Hand Foundation and the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation – Etana and VP Records have joined the effort to fight Ebola and participate in the R…
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Bajan Reporter • February 27th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
The Ministry of Health is becoming increasingly concerned about “the subtle and not so subtle marketing” of unhealthy foods to children. He has also appealed to parents not to take the eas…
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Bajan Reporter • February 17th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The training room of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL) looked more like a sick bay than a corporate meeting area this week, but it was not for a disaster – but a good cause…
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Bajan Reporter • February 14th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
A nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) has returned from the 46th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP 2014) in Canada even more enthused about strategies for the …
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Bajan Reporter • February 4th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Barbados’ Ministry of Health claims there’s been a decline in the number of confirmed cases of chikungunya in recent weeks. The levels of mosquito breeding have also fallen, so says the Mo…
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AirBourne • February 3rd, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Barbados may be among the first countries in the world to have reached targets to eliminate mother to child transmission of both HIV and Syphilis by the end of this year. This was among the issues dis…
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Bajan Reporter • January 27th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Trustees of the Broadway to Barbados Charitable Trust are pleased to announce that the very popular Broadway to Barbados stage performance will be returning to Barbados. Performances will feature prof…
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AirBourne • January 20th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Please be advised that the man who is currently a patient at the QEH after being found on Roebuck Street, St. Michael has been identified. The police thank the public and the media for their cooperati…
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DevilsAdvocate • January 14th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The Nigerian students who are currently being accommodated at the Casa Grande Hotel, at Oldbury in St. Philip have neither been isolated nor quarantined. This has been stated by Chief Medical Officer,…
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Bajan Reporter • January 11th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The Domestic Violence Act ensures greater protection of victims. In many cases, children and vulnerable members of the household are caught between the disputes of their parents or family members. Tho…
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DevilsAdvocate • January 2nd, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health, Political )
As is customary, the prospect of a New Year leads to reflection on what has occurred during the preceding one. For us at the Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP), 2014 was truly an eventful …
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DevilsAdvocate • January 1st, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
Food donations collected at the Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP) Volunteers Christmas party were recently given to the HIV/AIDS Food Bank. Mrs. Hazel Norville, Chairperson of the BARP So…
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Bajan Reporter • December 29th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health )
Zero Belly Diet is the revolutionary new plan to turn off your fat genes and help keep you lean for life! Nutrition expert David Zinczenko — the New York Times bestselling author of the Abs Diet ser…
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Bajan Reporter • December 29th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Books, Health, Video Gallery )
Christmas is a season of giving, sharing, good cheer and being together with loved ones. The staff of C.O. Williams Construction Ltd. knows this all too well. On Thursday, at their Lears, St. Michael …
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AirBourne • December 21st, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health )
CIBC FirstCaribbean now holds the title, ‘fittest company‘ in Barbados after the CIBC FirstCaribbean Team One won the recently-concluded 2014 ‘Surfside Corporate Fitness Challenge…
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Bajan Reporter • December 19th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health )
Alice Howland is a linguistics professor at Columbia, happily married to John with three children; Anna, Tom and Lydia. Soon after her fortieth birthday she begins experiencing memory loss symptoms, f…
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Bajan Reporter • December 17th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Cinema, Health, Video Gallery )
Christmas will be easier for patients who rely on the generosity of the Barbados Cancer Society (BCS) – After a cheque was delivered to President of the BCS Dr Dorothy Cooke-Johnson, at ICBLR…
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AirBourne • December 16th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
A team from the Ministry of Health, led by Health Minister John Boyce, met with members of the Barbados Christian Council yesterday as it continued its public sensitisation programme on Barbados’…
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AirBourne • December 12th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health, Review )
This World AIDS Day, Equatorial Guinea was recognized by The White House, through the presence of American oarsman Victor Mooney. Mr. Mooney became the first African American to row across the Atlanti…
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Bajan Reporter • December 7th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health )
Partners from civil society, government and the United Nations met over the last two days in St. Georges, Grenada to collaborate on an initiative that would support youth advocacy on sexual and reprod…
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Bajan Reporter • December 2nd, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health )
Thirteen Caribbean countries including Barbados are on track to be certified as having eliminated HIV transmission from mothers to children while three are close to reaching this goal, including St. K…
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Bajan Reporter • November 30th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health )
The good news is that a prophylactic vaccine against chikungunya, developed by the Austrian biotech company Themis Bioscience GmbH, is reported to induce a significant neutralizing immune response to …
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Bajan Reporter • November 23rd, 2014 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
Blood donations may be made Monday to Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 3:15 p.m., and on Saturdays, between 8:00 and 11:30 a.m. Persons ages 18 to 65 are eligible to give blood. (BGIS)
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Bajan Reporter • November 21st, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health )
The Ministry of Health is continuing to monitor the chikungunya outbreak in Barbados, and has implemented a number of measures to reduce the impact of the disease. Visitors to the island are advised t…
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Bajan Reporter • November 20th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Health )
