In an interview recently with EASY at the charity’s headquarters at Golf Club Road, Christ Church, Natasha said she decided to raise more awareness about autism and offer support to parents dealing with autistic children. “I started the charity. I started in April for National Autism Awareness Month. I’m a […]
Check out our facebook page and watch our President Maria Holder Small as she commemorates the Month of the Disabled 2018. We’ve got a full calendar of activities coming up this month which we hope you’ll be there to support. Watch the video on Facebook.
Massy car park Warrens was the scene of our latest educational endeavors, though not well attended by invited guest, the event itself was a huge success. Attendees were able to experience first hand the difficulties faced by persons with disabilities when embarking or disembarking from vehicles (especially in wheelchairs) when […]
The Ministry of Social Care is in the process of enacting legislation to protect the disabled community and a draft Bill is now before the Chief Parliamentary Counsel. In her address on Thursday at the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados’ Midterm Delegates’ Conference at the Courtyard […]
Local officials have suggested that Barbados could be losing out on hundreds of visitors and crucial tourism dollars from the disabled community because the island is not fully ready to cater to their needs. And they are warning tourism officials as well as government to move with haste in putting […]
The problems that beset the recruitment and employment of workers with disabilities might be the failure of successive governments to put into law a Disabilities Act, a Fair Labour Standards Act or a Code of Employment Practice. That’s the view of General Secretary of the Congress of Trade Unions and […]
An initiative of Barbados Council for the Disabled 2017 Persons with disabilities have dreams like everyone else. They dream of pursuing a career in a variety of fields or, of achieving skills in a range of areas. Sadly, there are not always enough avenues opened to help them realise their potential. Individuals […]
The absence of empirical data and statistics as it relates to persons with disabilities in Barbados is a sore spot and big challenge for the Barbados Council of the Disabled as they seek to advocate for the rights of this community. Sharing such was the President of the Council, Maria […]
As the featured speaker at the Barbados Council for the Disabled Annual General Meeting, Mr. Dennis De Peiza – General Secretary of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) in lauding the Council’s work for the past 40 years, reiterated his organisation’s commitment as social partner, […]
JANELLE KNIGHT is the winner of the 13th annual Caribbean Catalyst Inc. regg Nurse Memorial Scholarship. Knight, 21, is pursuing medical studies at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill Campus. The runner-up is Gabriella Bovell-Niles (below), also 21, a psychology and sociology student at Cave Hill. The […]
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