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World Family Doctor Day 2022: A call for recognition in Barbados! Dr. C.V. Alert MB BS, MSc, DM, FCCFP. Family  Physician.                                  The Theme for the World Family Doctor Day 2022, due to be celebrated on May 19th 2022, is “Family Doctors, Always there to Care”. This is a day to highlight the role and contribution of […]

Increasing the tax on sweetened beverages 2022 – here we go again!  Dr. C.V. Alert MB BS, DM. FCCFP. Family Physician. In the recent National Budget in Barbados the Right Honourable Prime Minister announced the introduction of an increase in the tax on sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) from the 10% introduced in 2015 to 20%,

ncreasing the tax on sweetened beverages 2022 – here we go again!  Dr. C.V. Alert MB BS, DM. FCCFP. Family Physician. In the recent National Budget in Barbados the Right Honourable Prime Minister announced the introduction of an increase in the tax on sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) from the 10% introduced in 2015 to 20%,

Inertia, Insanity or Incompetence? A look at our response to the NCD pandemic. Dr. C. V. Alert, MB BS, DM. FCCFP. Family Physician. In 2005, Sir George Alleyne, then Director of WHO/PAHO, pointed out to Caribbean Heads of Government (and Caribbean people) that the morbidity and mortality rates from the NCDs in Caribbean countries were

Omicron is terrorizing us. How we must fight back. Dr, C,V, Alert MB BS, DM, FCCFP. Family Physician. Many people are alarmed, or should be, by the numbers of persons who tests positive for covid-19 infections, whenever we get news of the daily covid dashboard. Perhaps over the last two weeks we hear daily numbers