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Labour Matters 13: Victimisation in the workplace

What should you do if you think you are...

Tridents’ challenge

It will be a challenging task for the senior...

COVID-19 Update for Saturday, April 23

New COVID-19 cases numbered 355 (156 males and 199...

Lifestyle

PG 3 What’s in a number? PG 6 Maternity Matters PG 8 Adolescent Health PG 10 Better Families PG 12 Pandemic fatigue & burnout PG 14 Fitness in small spaces PG 16 Cleaning contact lenses Nutrition PG 18 Food combinations Pt.2 PG 20 Replacing refined grains PG 22 Water watch Pt.1 PG 24 Dietician Victoria Cox Health PG 26 Nicole Carter’s nutrition PG 28 The Delta variant

Editor’s Note

This month’s issue takes more of a turn along the road of nutrition, great health and well-being. There are features on fitness, how much sun to actually take in, how ultraviolet rays affects your skin, and information about the Delta variant of COVID, among other informative articles. One highlight is the feature on the Better Health resident Nutritionist, Victoria Cox, as we continue

Maternity Matters

Maternity Matters by Midwife Andrea Jordan Three Troubleshooting Solutions for your Breastfeeding Woes! Why is breastfeeding such a struggle? What am I doing wrong? These are the words spoken by many a new mother in the early days with their newborns. Let’s face it, even though breastfeeding is supposed to be a natural process, for some mothers, and babies, it can be a real

Moore to advocate for working class

General secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU), Senator Toni Moore, is the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) candidate for the constituency of St George...

Top seeds crash out of mixed doubles

Davis Cup captain Damien Applewhaite and 14-year-old St Michael School student Serena Bryan ousted No. 1 seeds Russell Moseley and Melena Lopez in a...

Prison officer’s case dismissed

The Superintendent of Prisons could soon be facing a civil suit as one of his warders, who had been charged with taking contraband into...

Club severing all workers

Workers of a 156-room four-star West Coast hotel are facing redundancy as a direct fall-out from the COVID-19 pandemic.Staff of the all-inclusive, adults-only The...

Only eight left in recovery

No one tested positive for COVID-19 in Barbados for the third consecutive day, but one person will be discharged from the isolation facility at...

90 complete Spanish programme

Ninety graduates of an online conversational Spanish programme, offered by the Embassy of Argentina, in association with the National Library Service, are being encouraged...

BWA’s Warleigh station to be taken offline

The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) has advised residents in St James and St Peter that its station at Warleigh will be taken offline on...

Grenada to hold consultations on decriminalising marijuana

St Georges – The Grenada government Tuesday said it will stage public consultations as part of the efforts to determine the changes needed to...

Canadian company to close plant in Trinidad

Saskatoon – The Canadian-based petro-chemical giant, Nutrien, Tuesday announced “the indefinite closure” of one of its four ammonia plants in Trinidad and Tobago, puting...

Parents planning protest at Frederick Smith on Friday

Concerned parents of the Frederick Smith Secondary School are set to stage a peaceful demonstration in front of the school on Friday as they...