Hurricane Dorian Expected to Hit Florida as a Category 4. Here ’s the Latest Track and Forecast
Hurricane Dorian is predicted to make landfall on Florida’s Atlantic coast or possibly in Georgia as a powerful Category 4 storm late Sunday or early Monday, according to the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center.
It’s unclear exactly where Hurricane Dorian will make landfall, but Dan Kottlowski, a meteorologist with AccuWeather, says the storm is likely to impact “almost the entire state” of Florida at the least.
Kottlowski predicts the storm will hit somewhere between Melbourne, Fla. and Miami.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Wednesday afternoon.
As H...
Source: TIME: Science - August 26, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Sanya Mansoor and Gina Martinez Tags: Uncategorized Florida onetime Puerto Rico weather Source Type: news
Hurricane Dorian Strengthens to Category 3 as It Heads for Florida. Here ’s the Latest Track and Forecast
Hurricane Dorian has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm as it barrels toward the Bahamas and Florida’s Atlantic coast, according to the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center.
The hurricane gained strength Friday, with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, as it moved about 420 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas and 595 miles east of West Palm Beach, Fla. as of 5 p.m. Friday.
Forecasters predict the hurricane will get even stronger.
“Dorian is anticipated to remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane while it moves near the northwestern Bahamas and approaches the Florida peninsula into early n...
Source: TIME: Science - August 26, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Sanya Mansoor and Gina Martinez Tags: Uncategorized Florida onetime Puerto Rico weather Source Type: news
Hurricane Dorian Strengthens to Category 4 as It Heads for Florida and Atlantic Coast. Here ’s the Latest Track and Forecast
Hurricane Dorian has been upgraded to a Category 4 storm as it barrels toward the Bahamas and Florida’s Atlantic coast, according to the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center.
The hurricane gained strength Saturday, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, as it moved about 260 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas and 415 miles east of West Palm Beach, Fla. as of 11 a.m. Saturday.
Category 4 hurricanes typically cause “catastrophic” damage, lengthy power outages and involve a high risk of injury or death to people, livestock and pets from flying and falling debris.
Forecasters predict the ...
Source: TIME: Science - August 26, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Sanya Mansoor and Gina Martinez Tags: Uncategorized Florida onetime Puerto Rico weather Source Type: news
Ghana: Ghana to Send 375 Qualified Nurses to Work in Barbados
[Ghana Govt.] Ghana has agreed to send 375 Ghanaian nurses to Barbados to work in that country's government health facilities to ease the acute shortage of professional, and qualified nurses confronting its health sector. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 18, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Pres to Consider Barbados' Request for 375 Ghanaian Nurses
[Ghanaian Times] President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has agreed in principle to a request by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, to send about 375 (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 18, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Eb144/conf./7
Follow-up to the political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
Draft decision proposed by Argentina, Barbados, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Kenya, Monaco, Panama, Peru, Russian Federation, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uruguay and the European Union and its Member States (Source: WHO Governing Body Documentation)
Source: WHO Governing Body Documentation - January 26, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Childhood malnutrition and maltreatment are linked with personality disorder symptoms in adulthood: results from a Barbados lifespan cohort - Hock RS, Bryce CP, Fischer L, First MB, Fitzmaurice GM, Costa PT, Galler JR.
Both childhood malnutrition and maltreatment are associated with mental health problems that can persist into adulthood. Previously we reported that in Barbados, those with a history of infant malnutrition were more likely to report having experienced chil... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Surviving the Windrush scandal
“I had this knot in my stomach constantly, and a void inside my head,” says Michael Braithwaite, as he remembers the days and weeks following the news that he had lost his job and even faced deportation from a country in which he’d lived almost his entire life.
“To think that maybe tomorrow I would not be with my family, or in a place I love, was devastating. I used to have bad nightmares. They were always very vivid. I’d be stuck in some unknown place, it was never the same, waking up not knowing what was going to happen.
“I had to hold onto my soul, my spirit, me as a person. I just had to hold on.”...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 6, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: matheoud Tags: Article Magazine education immigration immigration bill 2015 Windrush Source Type: news
Blog: A person so clearly full of compassion treated with so little compassion
A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to meet Michael Braithwaite – a public servant, a Windrush child and a UNISON member.
Michael has been through more in recent years than most of us can imagine, with his life torn apart by the vicious “hostile environment” regime introduced by Theresa May as home secretary.
Having lived in the UK for 56 years since arriving from Barbados aged nine, Michael – rightly – thought his immigration status was beyond question. He was, and is, a pillar of his community, the kind of neighbour we’d all wish to have and exactly the kind of person who we’re so fortunate to have educ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - May 30, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: Dave Prentis Tags: General secretary's blog News Source Type: news
Parental alcohol drinking habit as a predictor of alcohol use among secondary school students in Barbados - Oshi, Abel WD, Oshi DC, Smith PW, Ricketts Roomes TF, Meka IA, Weaver S, Rae T, Mitchell G, Belinfante A, Agu CF.
BACKGROUND: In Barbados and the wider Caribbean region, alcohol is widely consumed by adolescents and young people, including those in secondary schools. The high prevalence of alcohol use, and its potential adverse effects are a source of concern to polic... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 26, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Profiles and behavioral consequences of child abuse among adolescent girls and boys from Barbados and Grenada - Debowska A, Boduszek D, Sherretts N, Willmott D, Jones AD.
The current study used latent class analysis to uncover groups of youths with specific abuse (physical, emotional, and sexual) profiles in and outside the family, and identify how membership in each abuse group is associated with behavioral outcomes. Data ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Former president tells delegates UNISON can help them achieve
“I can feel the love – and it’s energising me.” For former president Eleanor Smith, now the MP for Wolverhampton South West, it had all the emotion of a homecoming.
Addressing UNISON’s Black members’ conference in Liverpool this afternoon, she started by stressing her thanks to and love of UNISON.
Without the union’s help and support, “I would not be here today.”
And her message to delegates was that UNISON is there for them too and can help them to achieve what they want.
In keeping with a spirit of remembering history that permeated conference, Ms Smith sketched out her own story, beginning with her par...
Source: UNISON Health care news - January 20, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News 2018 Black members conference labour link Source Type: news
Ms Smith Goes to Westminster
This article first appeared in the Autumn 2017 edition of U Magazine.
The article Ms Smith Goes to Westminster first appeared on the UNISON National site. (Source: UNISON Health care news)
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 2, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: Demetrios Matheou Tags: Magazine Black history month labour link nursing one team for patient care race discrimination Save our NHS women members Source Type: news
The World Health Organization Just Picked Its New Leaders. Most of Them Are Women
The World Health Organization announced its new senior leadership team Tuesday, and more than 60% of the appointees are women.
“The team represents 14 countries, including all WHO regions, and is more than 60% women, reflecting my deep-held belief that we need top talent, gender equity and a geographically diverse set of perspectives to fulfill our mission to keep the world safe,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. The five men selected to lead the agency are Dr. Peter Salama, Dr. Bernhard Schwartländer, Dr. Ranieri Guerra, Dr. Ren Minghui, and Stewart Simonson.
WHO ...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - October 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Casey Quackenbush Tags: Uncategorized onetime United Nations women's empowerment Source Type: news
How Colonial Systems Hurt the Caribbean ’s Ability to Weather Hurricanes
This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today.
For most of the 19th century, besides being aware of the hurricane season (June-November), there was little that those living in the Caribbean could do to predict the arrival of storms. As rains and winds began to pick up, the wealthy took shelter in the cellars of their stone houses, while the wooden shacks of the enslaved population offered almost no protection. When a storm hit, the majority of the enslaved population simply found themselves having to try and survive days and nights out in the open, exposed to th...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Oscar Webber / History Today Tags: Uncategorized Environment natural disaster Source Type: news
