The pressure was mounting for the past few weeks on Government to do something substantial and far-reaching about what many Barbadians were describing as a crisis unfolding with our COVID-19 infections and rapid deaths.One of the most telling for most people was the declaration by the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that Americans should avoid travel here because their citizens are at a very high risk of contracting COVID-19 while on the island.It was a shock for some, but for most of us, it should have been expected when one considered the high number of daily infections the country was experiencing.
