Catch up on information you might have missed during the week.
This week's programme features:

Government News: 
•	Freight farming to be introduced in Barbados. 
•	The Barbados Digital Innovation and Health Tech Hub being built at Newton Life. 

Reminders/Notices:
•	STI Awareness: Get tested at polyclinics, the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ mobile clinics, or your healthcare provider. 
•	The Childhood Nutrition Study.  Follow Childhood Nutrition Surveillance on Facebook for more.
•	Diplomat for a Day: Barbadian youth aged 16 to 24 - Click https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/apply-to-become-a-diplomat-for-a-day/  to learn more.

This week In Case You Missed It – Opportunities (January 22 - 28):

Educational Opportunities: 
•	Barbados Community College offers Digital Marketing, Trauma-Informed Practice and Cinematic Screenwriting courses. Visit bbc.edu.bb.
•	UNESCO's Creative Tourism Training Workshops. Details at https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/unesco-call-to-artists-entrepreneurs-in-tourism-sector/

Job Opportunities: 
•	Positions Available for Accounts Receivable Clerk and Merchandiser. Details available at molbarbados246 on Instagram or molbarbados on Facebook

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT JAN 22 – 28 (2025)

Catch up on information you might have missed during the week.
This week's programme features:

1.	Seniors' month
2.	Genetics and health
3.	Jus ah Conversation podcast | Wills
4.	Ministry of Energy and Business smartfund incentive (smartfund@barbados.gov.bb) 

This Week’s In Case You Missed It Opportunities – September 24 - 30:
-	Teaching/school vacancies 

To download a copy of these opportunities, go to https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/download/in-case-you-missed-it-september-24-30-2025/


IN CASE YOU MISSED IT SEPTEMBER 24 - 30 (2025)

Since the UN was created eight decades ago in the wake of a catastrophic World War, real progress has been made on freedom and equality and justice.

But that's not much comfort to those living in conflict zones today worldwide, where accountability is scarce and impunity is rife.

UN News’s Conor Lennon caught up with the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Wednesday who’s in New York for high-level week and began by asking him what can really be done to rein in the abusers, beyond naming and shaming them.

Audio: UN News/ Conor Lennon
Photo: OHCHR/ Louise Wateridge

UN rights chief at UNGA80: Keeping the faith during ‘very challenging times’

• Gaza City suffering escalates as Israeli strikes inflict more heavy casualties
• Global shipping entering uncertain waters, says UNCTAD
• World’s food security goals are way off track, says FAO

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News

UN News Today 25 September 2025 - Gaza update, global shipping, food security

Four hospitals in north Gaza and Gaza governorate have been forced to shut down since 1 September, leaving just 14 facilities still functioning across the Strip. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that dozens more are affected by evacuation orders, lack of access and nearby violence that has forced them out of service.

Speaking to journalists in Geneva, WHO’s spokesperson Tarik Jašarević said on Friday that “more violence only means more injured people, more casualties.”

Hospitals already face crippling shortages of medicines, supplies and safe access for health workers and patients, compounded by repeated displacements. Over 15,000 people urgently need medical evacuation, yet transfers are moving “very, very slowly,” the UN health agency insisted.

WHO reiterated its appeal for an immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access, stressing that only then can medical supplies, emergency teams and other life-saving support reach what is left of Gaza’s shattered health system.

Picture Credit: WHO


CLIP – Only 14 hospitals left functioning in Gaza as violence escalates: WHO

• WHO says four more Gaza City hospitals shut amid Israeli offensive
• Sudan: Khartoum returnees shelter crisis, warns IOM
• Ukraine: WFP food boxes provide lifeline for frontline communities 

Audio Credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News

UN News Today 26 September 2025 - Gaza update, Sudan, Ukraine

There was a wealth of stories to follow at high-level week of the UN General Assembly, from the conference on the Israel-Palestine two-State solution, to the ambitious pledges made at the Climate Summit, and the launch of two bodies aimed at finally creating truly inclusive international AI governance.

But one theme that shone through was the importance of multilateralism and the work of the United Nations.

Conor Lennon and Laura Quinones from UN News break it all down in this special episode of The Lid Is On.

Audio: Conor Lennon, UN News
Music: Joachim Harris (all rights reserved)
Photo: UN Photo/Loey Felipe

UNGA80: Eight decades on, we need the UN more than ever

CARICOM Deputy Programme Manager, Agriculture, Ms. Selvine Stephenson-Grant was interviewed by St. Kitts and Nevis Freedom FM radio station ahead of the opening of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture in St. Kitts and Nevis 29 September-3 October 2025

19th CWA - CARICOM Deputy Programme Manager, Agriculture, Ms. Selvine Stephenson-Grant interview

Janelle Skinner shares her journey of living with a disability and the strategies she uses to maintain good mental health and resilience.

THE POWER OF POSSIBILITY

• Ukraine suffers renewed, massive Russian strikes overnight  
• Gaza: UN Human Rights condemns healthcare attacks
• Maria Ressa: It’s time to push back against AI and Big Tech’s threat to truth

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News

UN News Today 29 September 2025 - Ukraine, Gaza, AI

As war in Ukraine intensifies, five European countries – Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Poland – withdrew this year from the Ottawa Convention banning landmines and the Convention on Cluster Munitions – a move that is deeply concerning Tamar Gabelnick.

As Director of both the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition, she was in New York urging action to defend the conventions last week as world leaders addressed the General Assembly.

In an interview with UN News’s Cristina Silveiro she said considering Russia’s continuing invasion it made sense to focus on self defence – but anti-personnel landmines “remain the dumbest weapon in the world” and “it’s pure chance who they will strike.”

Audio credit: Cristina Silveiro
Photo credit: ICBL/Jaweed Tanveer

Anti-personnel landmines: The dumbest weapon in the world’

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