Name: FOUR RULES FOR CANINE SAFETY by gisbarbados
Duration: 4 min 59 s
Description: Inspector at the Animal Control Centre Benjamin Licorish advises dog owners on caring for their animals according to the law.

Inspector at the Animal Control Centre Benjamin Licorish advises dog owners on caring for their animals according to the law.

FOUR RULES FOR CANINE SAFETY

Catch up on information you might have missed during the week.

This week's programme features:
1. Dr. Errol Bolden’s children’s book series emphasises the importance of literacy to childhood development.
2. BGIS’ In Focus programme 1 “Breaking the Cycle”. View it at https://www.youtube.com/live/Id4a7n9gc4E?si=NLZ9e5Fkl2ahVAkL 

This week In Case You Missed It Opportunities – (April 30 – May 6):
- The Barbados Community College’s Theatre Arts Department invites you to ‘A Generation of Vipers’ on May 10 & 11 at the Daphne Joseph Hackett Theatre. Go to @connectwithbcc or download the poster at https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/download/in-case-you-missed-it-apr-30-may-6-2025/ for more info.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT APR 30 – MAY 6 (2025)

Nutrition Officer Glencil Taylor gives tips on reducing food waste and eating on a budget.

INSIDER'S REPORT | FOOD SECURITY AT HOME

• UN Humanitarian Coordinator denounces impact of sweeping aid cuts 
• Israel urged to allow lifesaving aid into Gaza
• UN rights chief fears more bloodshed in El Fasher, Sudan


Audio credit: Dianne Penn, UN News
Music composed and produced by Joachim Harris. All rights reserved 


UN News Today 01 May 2025 - aid cuts, Gaza, Sudan

UN Humanitarian Affairs chief Tom Fletcher has been forced to make “brutal cuts” to his organization, as major donors in the rich world slash their aid and international development spending.

UN News’s Conor Lennon spoke to him on Thursday via video-link from the UN offices in the Afghan capital Kabul, at the end of a three week visit to some of the most vulnerable communities in the country, where he has witnessed first-hand the deadly consequences of the dramatic aid slowdown.

Mr. Fletcher has publicly challenged policymakers who signed off on cuts to come to Afghanistan to see the effect they're having on the population, saying that “the effect of aid cuts, is that millions die”. 
Conor began by asking if he uses the same blunt language with senior politicians in private.


Audio credit: Conor Lennon

‘If you want to make your country great again, don’t retreat from the world’: UN relief chief

• Aid blockade of Gaza threatens mass starvation
• Syria: Independent UN rights investigators’ accountability call, amid sectarian violence 
• “Unbearable suffering” in Myanmar in quake aftermath must not be forgotten: human rights chief


Audio credit: Matt Wells, UN News 
Music composed and produced by Joachim Harris. All rights reserved. 


UN News Today 02 May 2025 - Aid blockade in Gaza, Syria, Myanmar

Following the COVID-19 pandemic – which disrupted immunisation efforts around the world – data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows Ukraine made remarkable progress restoring its inoculation programmes.  

However, the full-scale Russian invasion of February 2022 has wreaked havoc with the country’s health infrastructure, displaced millions, and led to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and pertussis.

In an interview with UN News’s Evgeniya Kleshcheva, the national official who oversees immunisation at the WHO Country Office in Ukraine, Yevgenii Grech-ukha, outlines the severe impact of the war, highlights the fight against vaccine misinformation, and how the UN agency’s been working to improve access for those displaced.

Audio credit: Evgeniya Kleshcheva, UN News


Ukraine: Immunisation challenges continue amid conflict, WHO says

In this second part, Dr. Leroy McClean, a consultant with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Nutritional Security, provides the latest on the Blackbelly Sheep project between Barbados and Guyana.

PRIDE OF THE PASTURE PART 2 | THE BARBADOS - GUYANA PARTNERSHIP

• Israeli aid blockade on Gaza has caused stillbirths and more: UNFPA
• Aid teams condemn deadly hospital bombing in South Sudan 
• Myanmar: early monsoon rains add to survivors’ misery: OCHA

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News

UN News Today 05 May 2025 - Gaza, South Sudan, Myanmar

Refugees from Sudan are crossing into Chad in growing numbers in search of shelter from the spiralling conflict, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR said on Tuesday.
 
"Most arrived in Chad with nothing – no food, money, or identification," UNHCR representative in Chad, Magatte Guisse said. "Several wounded individuals, including children and elderly women, reportedly fell from vehicles during the chaotic escape."
 
"Their journeys to safety were perilous, with refugees facing, robbery and extortion at checkpoints and repeated threats along the way."

Exhausted Sudanese women, children are increasingly fleeing to Chad ‘with nothing’

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FOUR RULES FOR CANINE SAFETY

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