The Pan American Health Organisation, PAHO wants Barbados and the Caribbean to urgently accelerate efforts to meet the goal of the 90-70-90 targets to put the world on course to eliminating cervical cancer. PAHO wants 90% of girls vaccinated against human papillomavirus, HPV by age 15; 70 % of women screened by age 35 and again by age 45, and 90 % of people diagnosed with cervical disease treated. Assistant director, Dr. Rhonda Sealy-Thomas acknowledged that while ambitious, the region of the Americas can meet the set targets. She was among the panel for a briefing session titled Cervical Cancer Elimination: Advancing the Call to Action in the Americas.

Barbados has suggested a re-look of teaching methods and theories is required. Chief Education Officer Dr. Ramona Archer-Bradshaw put forward the suggestion during the question and answer segment of a Regional Symposium and Policy Dialogue on Transforming Education. It was hosted by the Caribbean Development Bank in the Cayman Islands. Citing mathematics as an example, Dr. Archer-Bradshaw says many teachers teach the subject in an abstract way.

Barbados has shared before a high level forum on sargassum, the innovative strides made by the island as it confronts influxes of the seaweed. The forum, the 2nd EU-Caribbean Global Gateway Conference, was held in Grenada. Chief Fisheries Officer, Dr. Shelly-Ann Cox says compressed natural gas was derived from a mix of sargassum seaweed, water from the rum distillery and Black Belly sheep manure.