BREAKING NEWS
Today Friday, October 19th, 2018
Barbadians are invited to join the Barbados Diabetes Foundation for an interactive lecture on Sunday 14th June, 5:30 pm at Hilton Barbados, Needham’s Point. Effective diabetes care is essential …
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Bajan Reporter • May 25th, 2015 • 0 comments 
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One child. One wish. Millions touched. Who would have thought a 5-year-old boy who fought leukemia would transform a city and a nation for a day? No one. Not his family. Not his friends. Not the thous…
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Bajan Reporter • May 24th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Cinema, Health, Video Gallery )
Digicel, the region’s leading Business Solutions provider, recently won the highly coveted, Avaya Caribbean-wide Project of the Year award thanks to its ICT and Unified Communication platform de…
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Bajan Reporter • May 24th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
The Barbados Diabetes Foundation will host its first annual multi-disciplinary diabetes conference on June 13 and 14 at Hilton Barbados, Needham’s Point, St. Michael. The conference, which has a…
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Bajan Reporter • May 23rd, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
It is a tragedy for our society when any child takes his or her life. The death of 12 year old Shemar Weekes in Barbados is one more example of the many children who have committed suicide within the …
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DevilsAdvocate • May 19th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Johnson & Johnson today announced that its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies have furthered their commitment to improve the health of children living with HIV through an expanded policy aimed at en…
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AirBourne • May 19th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The St. Kitts Diabetes Association (SDA) in collaboration with the St. Kitts and Nevis Red Cross Society is organizing a camp for juvenile diabetics in St. Kitts, slated for Friday May 22, 2015 at the…
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Bajan Reporter • May 15th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Some of the island’s fittest men and women will compete against each other to see who will come out on top when the 2nd Annual Barbados IslandFit Games takes place at the Hilton Barbados Resort,…
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Bajan Reporter • May 13th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
One man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that …
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Bajan Reporter • May 7th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Cinema, Health, Video Gallery )
In the process of helping countless men and women reach their weight loss goals, Harper has noticed six fundamental patterns in the lifestyle choices of those who succeed long-term–from the uniq…
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Bajan Reporter • May 6th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Books, Health, Video Gallery )
Several local causes and organisations have received financial support from CIBC FirstCaribbean and the lives of those with physical disabilities and cystic fibrosis is expected to improve as a result…
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Bajan Reporter • May 2nd, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
The 5k Walk/Run and the 10k run began and finished at ICBL Headquarters on Roebuck Street, followed by their Health Extravaganza. This Heroes Day many Bajans made their Move and chose to be Heroes for…
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AirBourne • April 28th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health, Photo Gallery )
Those persons looking forward to this year’s ICBL Family Fun Walk & Run will be in for a treat once they complete the April 28th 5k & 10k events. This is because when participants cross …
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AirBourne • April 15th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
Meeting its target of 5,000 entrants for this year’s ICBL Family Fun Walk & Run will be key to the leading insurance company’s ability to make the level of donations it would like to t…
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Bajan Reporter • April 9th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
Dear Editors: I write as a mental health advocate, the only declared user of mental health services who sits on the National Mental Health Commission of Barbados. And I write to ask for media personne…
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DevilsAdvocate • April 8th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
The family of Akeem Kennedy, wish to express heartfelt thanks to the Barbadian community! We appreciate the overwhelming support and wish to specially thank the Barbadian public, the Royal Barbados Po…
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DevilsAdvocate • March 31st, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
An extremely wealthy man, dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to u…
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Bajan Reporter • March 29th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health, Oddity, Video Gallery )
Twenty-seven (27) passengers from the two buses and the driver of the Transport Board Bus complained of pain and bruising about their bodies. The injuries were reportedly not to be life threatening. T…
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DevilsAdvocate • March 25th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
In an effort to carry out urgent repair works to the flooring in the Main Entrance of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), the public is asked to note that this area will be temporarily closed from nex…
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Bajan Reporter • March 23rd, 2015 • 0 comments ( Health )
During the past 20 years, we have witnessed remarkable advances in promoting the human rights and dignity of women and girls and their full and equal participation in society. The International Confer…
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Bajan Reporter • March 8th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
Barbados’ newest Independent Senator, Carol Lady Haynes, has vowed to honour and uphold the 300-year-old tradition of Parliamentary representation in Barbados. Viewing the swearing-in were her s…
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Bajan Reporter • March 6th, 2015 • 0 comments ( Featured, Health )
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 ( Featured, Health )
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 )
