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President of Hope Foundation, Shelley Weir placing an orange ribbon on Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Lovell, Commanding Officer of the Barbados Regiment, in commemoration of World Sickle Cell Day. 

Call to screen babies for sickle cell

Today, on World Sickle Cell Day, the Hope Foundation continues to lobby for mandatory screening of newborns for this inherited blood disorder.

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Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez (Right) laying a wreath at the moment, with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Jerome Walcott (left) and other supporters looking on.

Wreath laying ceremony at Cubana Memorial

It was October 6, 1976, when the citizens of Barbados and Cuba, stopped and recoiled in horror, at the terrorist bombing of Cubana Airlines flight 455 from Barbados to Jamaica.

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Top Boy Brandon Squires of People’s Cathedral Primary (centre) alongside his father Dwayne Squires (left) and his brother Ethan Squires. Brandon will join Ethan at Queen’s College from September.

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