by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 16, 2019 | Top Stories
Staff from the Ministry of Mobilization in St. Vincent and the Grenadines spreading out the rabacca sand at the BDF FMF on Saturday. (Photo – BDF Field Medical Facility) The Barbados Defence Force’s (BDF) Field Medical Facility (FMF) has been welcomed in St....
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 16, 2019 | Top Stories
Project Manager of the BDF FMF, Major Junior Browne (left); Staff Officer for Exercise Tradewinds at RSS Headquarters, Major Ryan Smith; St. Vincent and the Grenadines Deputy Commissioner of Police and Director of EX TW19 Phase 2, Frankie Joseph; and Facilities...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 14, 2019 | Top Stories
Members of the Barbados team pose with the crew from the Canadian vessel, HMCS GOOSE BAY, en route to St. Vincent and the Grenadines for Exercise Tradewinds 2019. (GP) The second wave of resource personnel participating in phase two of Exercise Tradewinds 2019 has set...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 28, 2017 | banner, Top Stories
An “injured” volunteer being assisted by fire service personnel during a rescue simulation at Hotel Glendairy Meadows during Exercise Tradewinds 2017. (C.Pitt/BGIS) Eyes popping out, squirting blood, gashes about the body, burns, broken limbs, and “fatal”...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jun 20, 2017 | banner, Top Stories
They were cut, critically injured and even killed, but volunteers involved in the just concluded Exercise TRADEWINDS 2017, all agree – the experience was worth it! After enduring the sun, rain, bouts of seasickness and lying on the ground waiting for help to...