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With one 10-person team working along the road near the ocean and another working the hillside, volunteers set to work clearing all the litter in sight on Sept. 18 in West End.

Voices here and there would call out for the record when another plastic bottle, twist-off cap, aluminium can or unidentifiable bit of trash was added to the collection. Items that were clean enough went into blue bags destined for the recycling centre.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has criticised those it described as rich countries and big corporations for allegedly monopolising the manufacturing and distribution of coronavirus vaccines.

The global agency accused them of deliberately doing so for profit at the detriment of underdeveloped and developing countries.

BY YOHANES JEMANEH

ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia has already won the war on fake news that used to be propagated relating to the law enforcement operation and the current barrages of fake news which are being spread to tarnish the government’s humanitarian response in Tigray state would be debunked soon, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations Taye Atske Selassie said.

BARBADOS has slipped three notches in the global Index of Economic Freedom. This country’s rating declined by just over five per cent to end 2020 with a score of 61.40 and a ranking of 92, according to the Fraser Institute.

In 2019 Barbados had a rating of 64.70 after its index expanded 13 per cent above the 2018 position of 57.00. It was pointed out that the 2018 position represented an almost five per cent increase that reversed the 20 per cent fall in 2017.

Barbados’ highest rating is 71.50 and that was achieved in 2009, according to the stats.

Barbados has slipped 25 places in ranking in the Index of Economic Freedom Report to now hold a position of 92 out of 180 countries.

The top ten ranking states considered to have the most “free” economies are Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Ireland, the UK, Denmark, Canada and Estonia.

The countries considered to have the most repressed economies are the Republic of Congo ranked at 176, Eretria (177), Cuba (178), Venezuela (179) and North Korea (180).