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Another contingent of Ghananian nurses will be joining the Barbados health care system for the next two years.

The nurses who arrived at the Grantley Adams International Airport [GAIA] on Monday, October 10 are expected to further improve the current nurse shortage on island.

Speaking to the media at the GAIA, Executive Chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland explained that these qualified nurses will be assigned to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and various agencies of the Ministry Of Health.

“We are expecting 66 nurses from Ghana to join the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and 56 to join the agencies of the Ministry Of Health, that is the Geriatric Hospital, Psychiatric Hospital and polyclinic system. These are nurses of all areas of specialization who were recruited specially to join us here in Barbados. All of them have specialist qualifications.”

“Like many hospitals globally, we are facing nursing shortages and they are some countries like Ghana who are producing excellent nurses and producing them for the global market.”

The first cohort of 95 nurses from the Republic of Ghana in West Africa arrived in Barbados in July 2020 on a two-year assignment, then aimed at bolstering the nursing complement in the public health sector on the island. In March of this year, while in Ghana to celebrate its 65th year of independence, prime minister Mia Amor Mottley disclosed the interviewing process for approximately 200 additional Ghanaian nurses had been completed and the healthcare professionals will take up assignments in Barbados.

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Bynoe-Sutherland explained that in addition to outsourcing nurses from Ghana, efforts are being made to increase the volume of nurses at various institutions on island.”They join us at a time where our need for nursing continues to be great. We are doing our best nationally to ensure that we can increase the output of numbers of nurses at the Barbados Community College and in all of our institutions we enhanced our retention programs for all of the nurses here in Barbados.”

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Durante e di 52 Asamblea General di organisacion pa estadonan Americano, OEA:

ORANJESTAD (AAN): Durante e di 52 Asamblea General di organisacion pa estadonan Americano, OEA, cu a tuma luga siman pasa na Lima, Peru, a toca diferente tema na nivel di gobiernonan. 

NICARAGUA:

            Un tema cu sigur a haya atencion ta e tema di Nicaragua cu a kibra e relacion cu Reino Hulandes y a expulsa e Embahadora di Reino Hulandes di Nicaragua. Prome Minister a duna di conoce cu e decision aki di Nicaragua ta pasobra Hulanda a stop financiamento di e hospital na Nicaragua. E motibo cu Hulanda a stop esaki ta pasobra Hulanda tabata kier pa Nicaragua traha mas riba respeta derechonan humano.

            Door cu Nicaragua no a sigui, Hulanda a stop financiamento di e hospital y Nicaragua di su banda a kibra unilateralmente e lasonan diplomatico cu Reino Hulandes. “Mi mester a trece e punto aki padilanti. Mi conoce e embahadora, mi tabata hunto cu ne na Honduras comienso di aña y mi no ta kere asina paisnan cu mester traha hunto, mester trata otro”, Prome Minister a remarca. 

SURINAME:

            Durante su encuentro cu Canciyer di Suriname, Prome Minister a elabora riba nan reunionnan hunto cu President di Suriname durante su ultimo biahe na New York 2 siman pasa. E conclusion di e deliberacionnan ta pa traha hunto riba mas desaroyo. “Suriname tin hopi oportunidad y lo yuda nos den diversifica nos economia”.

            “E Asamblea General ta wordo bishita mas pa e canciyernan, esta ministernan di relacionnan exterior y mi por a combersa cu varios di nan y purba di yega na cooperacion entre Reino, Aruba y e paisnan aki. Mi ta contento y hopi satisfecho di tur e reunionnan cu a tuma luga y e encuentronan unda mi tabata invita como orador como Prome Minister y representa Reino Hulandes. Lasonan a wordo estrecha aun mas y lo sigui den deliberacion pa ehecuta proposicionnan treci dilanti”, Prome Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes a duna di conoce.

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Cosnan a escala na The Venue

ORANJESTAD (AAN): Diasabra marduga pa 12:30 am, un unidad di Polis di Playa a ser manda na e club nocturno di ‘The Venue’ den Weststraat pasobra eynan lo tin un pelea andando.  A haya informacion cu un bouncer lo a ricibi un boter den cabez.

   Ora cu Polis a yega eynan, nan a wordo dirigi door di bouncernan di The Venue, pa e parkinglot cu tin patras di e negoshi, y asina wordo poni na altura cu e problema ainda ta andando.

   Un persona diripiente a grita den nan direccion, cu e agresor a bay for di e parkinglot y e ta bisti cu un T-Shirt color berde.  E parkinglot aki ta riba Werfstraat.

   Ora cu Polis a bay check riba Werfstraat, nan no a topa cu e bringadornan.  Un poco despues Polis a tende cu un otro unidad, ta persiguiendo un auto cu a sali cu velocidad halto for di Werfstraat.  Parce cu e bringadornan ta den esaki.

   Polisnan tambe a subi Lloyd G. Smith Boulevard direccion pabao, y na e T-weg cu Werfstraat nan a mira un auto color cora ta sali coriendo roekeloos for di e caya.  E chauffeur aki a core subi bay direccion pariba, y despues bira na man robez pa drenta Weststraat y bay panort.

   E unidad di Polis a bay tras di e auto y a pone zwaailicht y sirena.  E auto a drenta Emanstraat, y despues drenta Visstraat y a bira bay pariba den direccion verboden riba Ranchostraat.  Ora cu el a yega mas pariba banda di Kowloon, e chauffeur a stop.  Diripiente el a dal un birada bay man drechi, y dal contra un unidad di Polis cu net ta bin di zuid eynan, cu zwaailicht y sirena.

   Despues di e dalmento, e chauffeur di e auto cora a baha.  Polis tambe a baha mesora, y a ordena e homber aki cu color di cuero blanco y lomba sunu, pa e drumi na suela y no move.

   E pasahero sinta banda di dje, cu color di cuero blanco, tambe lomba sunu, tabatin un T-Shirt berde den su man.  Polis a sake di e auto pa asina detene.

   Riba e asiento patras tabatin un muher sinta.  Polis na varios ocasion a dune ordo pa e baha di e auto y pa e keda un tiki leu di e area.  Pero el a keda bati boca cu Polisnan, y intencionalmente no a cumpli cu ordo cu agentenan ta dune.  Finalmente Polisnan a fada di dje, y e tambe a wordo deteni.

   Polis a pone oficialnan di Recherche, oficialnan forensico di BFTO, y Central di Polis na altura di loke a socede.  Un investigacion profundo a cuminza pa check kico realmente a socede.

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Gaston, la vitrine des artistes et artisans d’art des Antilles, emmène l’artiste martiniquais dans une galerie londonienne. L’exposition “Architecture of Tropical Spaces ” présente une collection de peintures abstraites vibrantes d’Alain Joséphine.

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In a debate in the Parliament on October 10, Premier Wayne Panton suggested that members of the Opposition misled the public by presenting the waste to energy facility as a project that was ready for construction. The real story, according to Panton, was that many items remained outstanding at the time that the Opposition signed the contract for the facility three weeks before the 2021 general elections.

As he explained the complications, Panton noted that he and his PACT team initially discovered the scope of the problems in a report that was prepared by the government’s legal advisors in August 2021.

He noted that the report, spanning nearly 40 pages, “gave an overview of the outstanding items to financial close, the vast majority of which were shown as not yet agreed… and there were significant issues to be addressed.”

Panton placed significant emphasis on what remained to be done, highlighting that the report set out “page after page after page of outstanding items that still needed to be negotiated and agreed.”

Due to the number of unaddressed matters, Panton suggested that, “perhaps the Opposition did not fully appreciate what they had approved” i.e., it was actually “a highly complex project”.

Panton then intimated that the Opposition’s failure to deal with the outstanding matters associated with the contract was likely due to the Opposition being “quite busy at the time campaigning for re-election at the time they approved it and signed it.”

While the general public remained unaware of these issues, Panton said that the Opposition celebrated the contractual signing “as a crowning achievement of their administration.”

Notwithstanding the “fanfare” (as Panton called it), what the Opposition envisioned as “a financial close target date of September 30th, 2021” was actually unrealistic given the number of outstanding items.

He said:

It is my opinion Mister Speaker that there is simply quite simply no way that the project agreement that was signed could reach financial close in the time frame that had been projected or promoted last year (not unless one or both parties agreed to make concessions on some key points immediately without taking into account the best interests of their side , concessions that would run the life of the contract and quite possibly concessions that the people in the Cayman Islands would quite literally be paying for over a 25-year period of the system being in operation).

Panton also noted that an essential component of the project was missing. More specifically, the project plans did not include an allocation of space for the Department of Environmental Health to continue their solid waste operations.

He said:

The fact that this was an essential component that was missing… the project agreement required for the Department of Environmental Health to be relocated on a time frame, that much like their projected financial close date would be nigh impossible to achieve. Interesting coming from an Opposition that claims to be highly competent.

Panton emphasized that, given all of the issues, what had been left for the PACT government to consider “was not a project that was ready to move to construction” and he expressed his view that it was “unfortunate that it has been presented to the public in that way over the past year.”

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