Businesses donate santisers to essential workers, agencies

Essential service workers who are out in the field maintaining law and order and keeping the country afloat during the current COVID-19 pandemic have received a donation of hand sanitisers from corporate Barbados.

Spokesperson for the effort, communications consultant Joy-Ann Haigh, told Barbados TODAY: “We have come to the end of part one of the initiative funded by Mark Maloney with the assistance of Carlisle Laboratories, and I want to thank Peter Bourne for facilitating this. The Ministry of the Environment handled the Sanitation Service Authority and the National Conservation Commission, while the Barbados Water Authority distributed some to their customers that were having water challenges.

“I sent some to the prison officers at Her Majesty’s Prison at Dodds, and we concentrated a big amount on the Royal Barbados Police Force and the Barbados Defence Force, as they are among the frontline workers keeping us safe and ensuring we adhere to the curfew.”

Other beneficiaries included the Barbados Council for the Disabled, the Transport Authority and the Ministry of Elder Affairs. Sanitisers were also distributed to small bakeries and some nursing homes, assisted by the Barbados Defence Force, she said.

Haigh called on corporate Barbados to come on board with this effort. “Apart from maintaining us during the curfew, the Police are still out there fighting crime and they need assistance, so we want to encourage corporate Barbados to reach out, as we need people to help finance this effort if it is to continue and we want to continue it at this time.”

The total value of the sanitisers distributed so far is $40,000. (DH)