Children suffering with mental illnesses now have their own specialised facility. The Thrive Family Centre was officially launched on Saturday on the Psychiatric Hospital grounds. The funding and construction work were provided through the Sandy Lane Charitable Trust and its grand patron Derrick Smith. It will admit patients in January. Trustee Phillipa Challis said she
Crime Stoppers reaching out to Grantley Adams by HEATHER-LYNN EVANSON CRIME STOPPERS BARBADOS will be going into Grantley Adams Memorial Secondary School in an attempt to help students there manage their anger. This has been revealed by programme director Sherie Holder-Olutayo, who said the organisation had reached out to the administration of the Blackman’s, St
THE DIFFERENCE needs only to start with one child. This was the view of trustee of the Sandy Lane Charitable Trust, Pippa Challis, during the opening ceremony of the start of another season of the Sport For Life programme at Kensington Oval on Saturday. “The way the trust looks at it is if we can
THERE IS SPACE for more psychologists in the public health care system. Both the consultant to the Paediatrics Department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Dr Clyde Cave, and psychologist Dr Kate Herbert, expressed this view yesterday during a presentation from the Sandy Lane Charitable Trust to the Paediatric Department. Herbert, who has been working
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WITH the start of the new school year fast approaching, participants of Camp Energy 2017 are being encouraged to avoid fights and other forms of indiscipline during the academic year. Force Welfare Officer with the Barbados Defence Force (BDF), Harriet Clarke gave this advice as she spoke to The Barbados Advocate on the side-lines of
GOVERNMENT is expecting to seek parliamentary approval soon for the Persons with Disabilities Bill. That’s the word from Minister of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment and Community Development, Steven Blackett,who said that piece of legislation is key to Barbados facilitating its commitment to honour the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Diego Lascurain was among students breathing a sigh of relief Friday after successfully completing a programme focused on boosting the skills of teens in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). He was one of three Queen’s College students taking part in the 2017 edition of the Student Programme for Innovation in
INDIVIDUALS were given an opportunity yesterday to experience first-hand some of the educational activities done at the Sunshine Early Stimulation Centre during that school’s Open Day. This event is one of the activities being done to mark the Centre’s 10th anniversary. Whilst there, parents, guardians and other members of the public were taken on an
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by RIA GOODMAN FINANCIAL CHALLENGES have threatened the Sport For Life Barbados Programme but its discontinuation is not an option. Director of the programme Kathy Harper- Hall yesterday met with the stakeholders at the KOMI boardroom, Kensington Oval, to discuss the way forward. “We have had a number of challenges with the programme but the
The Sandy Lane Charitable Trust has once again come to the aid of children in need of medical attention. The Trust recently partnered with international non-profit, humanitarian organization World Pediatric Project and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) to assist 10 children with medical needs, in an effort to change their lives. Speaking at the Sandy
In addition to the funding being given to push the Healthy Hearing Programme to provide cochlear implant surgery for children who need it, the Sandy Lane Charitable Trust has purchased 60 individual hearing aids at a cost of $30 000, to create the Sandy Lane Charitable Trust Children’s Hearing Aid Bank. Phillipa Challis, one of
IT is our choices that make us agents of good or bad in the world. Insisting that youth carefully consider whatever options they take, Psychiatrist Dr. Joanne Brathwaite-Drummond said, “The only person that you are destined to be is the one you decide to be.” “Going to school every day, when avoiding school and playing