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Barbados is gearing up to scream “Welcome home!” to its most outstanding athletes for 2022.

Bajan athletes who have achieved spectacular feats over the past two months at the Pan American Championships, the Commonwealth Games and other international meets will be celebrated in grand style this week.

Barbadian cyclist Amber Joseph who struck gold and won two silvers at the Pan American Cycling Championships returned home last Thursday ahead of the pack but she will not be left out of this week’s pomp.

On September 9, for her arrival, she was greeted by General Manager of the Barbados Olympic Association Glyne Clarke, Senior Operations Officer at the Barbados Olympic Association Ryan Brathwaite, and Neil Murrell Director of Sports at the National Sports Council.

But on Wednesday, September 15, she joins with Sada Williams, Shane Brathwaite, and Jonathan Jones on a motorcade, which will be followed by a press conference and reception to celebrate them. The reception will be held at Ilaro Court on the evening of Friday, September 16.

The motorcade leaves the Grantley Adams International Airport on Wednesday around 2pm. for the Garfield Sobers Gymnasium where the press conference will also be held.

Motorcade Route

From the Grantley Adams International Airport the motorcade will travel via Coverley, Pilgrim Road, Callender’s, Thornbury Hill through Oistins, Welches, Maxwell Road, Top Rock, then turn right at the roundabout towards Graeme Hall, then turn left at the roundabout onto the ABC Highway to the Garfield Sobers Roundabout, onto Wildey Road towards the triangle, then right onto Highway R by Carters, left up “B.E.T” hill onto the roundabout at the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology, around the roundabout, down “B.E.T” hill, left onto Upton, then turn right at the north entrance to the Gymnasium, pass the Astroturf and left to the Gymnasium’s VIP entrance.

Barbadians are invited to line the route of the motorcade on Wednesday afternoon to greet and celebrate our athletes. There will also be a 15-minute opportunity at the Gymnasium to interact with the athletes and take pictures.

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PARAMARIBO — Het ministerie van Financiën en Planning heeft afspraken gemaakt met de oliemaatschappijen en importeurs van medicamenten en noodzakelijke

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The Southern Regional Health Authority will on Tuesday, embark on a mass public sensitisation to increase the public’s knowledge on monkeypox.

The exercise comes days after the health ministry reported the death of a monkeypox patient, whose cause of death is under investigation. Jamaica has also recorded five additional cases, bringing the total number of cases to 12.

The public health teams will distribute educational materials and engage the public in major town centres across the island.

The exercise will start in the parishes of Manchester, Clarendon and St Elizabeth. St Elizabeth, Junction town centre – (8:00 am to 10:00 am)

Santa Cruz town centre – (8:00 am to 10:00 am), Manchester, Christiana town centre- (7:00 am to 10:00 am) Mandeville town Centre- Nashville bus park, taxi stand across the market (7:00 am to 10:00 am.)

Clarendon May Pen town centre-(7:00 a.m. to 10:00 am), Chapelton town centre-(7:00 am to 10:00 am), Spalding town centre-(7:00 am to 10:00 am), Frankfield town centre- (7:00 a.m. to 10:00 am).

The Ministry of Health said the latest positive patients are four males and a female.

Of the five new cases recorded locally, two were in Kingston and St Andrew, while there was one case each from St Elizabeth, St James and Manchester.

The number of active cases currently stands at eight, while an additional recovery has brought the total number of recoveries to three.

Two of the confirmed cases of monkeypox were imported, while 10 were locally transmitted.

A total of 25 tests for the disease have been conducted locally.

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St. Lucia’s new prime minister takes over when the nation is pregnant with potential following significant, unexpected economic recovery, says Joseph Boll, CEO of Caribbean Employment Services Inc.

The chief executive of the market-leading digital talent acquisition service notes that St.Lucia’s recovery forced even the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to go back to the drawing board as the country shattered its earlier projections regarding employment in the region in a “post-COVID” economy.

“St. Lucia’s resilience is quite impressive, given that its unemployment has dropped evenbelow pre-pandemic levels,” says Boll, “and dozens of employers are reporting employeeretention and new hires in spite of the intense economic challenges, plus increasingcompetition from foreign employers.

“Indeed, the country’s astounding economic success seems to have come from out ofnowhere. We have seen countries like Guyana, with major government hiring sprees andsuch a strong projection of growth that economists believe it will have a labour shortagebefore the end of this year. But St. Lucia has more ‘quietly’ exceeded economicexpectations.”

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Early last year, the ECLAC projected that both employment and economic growth in theCaribbean at large would be somewhat stunted for 2022.

However, it has since revised its initial projections and now estimates St. Lucia “will realize the highest GDP growth among Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) member states in 2022.”

This as St. Lucia’s most recent Labour Force survey, covering the period January to March2022, “estimated the national unemployment rate stood at 16.1 percent.”

In comparison, for the past six years before the pandemic, unemployment stood at around 20 percent consistently, marking an improvement even in significantly challenging times.

Further, Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture reported that some 83 of itsmembership retained and added more jobs during Q1 2022.

This is also significant as the Great Resignation in North America and severe labour shortages in the UK have resulted in intense recruitment of Caribbean workers particularly for the first half of this year.

Boll notes, “Where other Caribbean nations are beginning to run the risk of labour shortages as a result of competition from foreign workers, it’s incredible that St. Lucia is doing so well in terms of employment.

“The Honourable Prime Minister (Philip Pierre) has taken over at an opportune time and welook forward to continued successes in this regard.”

SOURCE: Caribbean Employment Services Inc. Headline photo: Joseph Boll

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