Two-week shutdown in Barbados

All businesses in Barbados, except the ones deemed as essential services, had been to be closed for two weeks from eight final night time.

Attorney General Dale Marshall made the statement in the House of Assembly yesterday, at the heels of Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s announcement Thursday night time that Barbadians would be located underneath curfew among 8 P.M. and 6 A.M. every day from ultimate night until April 14.

Expanding on the terms of the curfew as outlined via the Prime Minister, Marshall said: “This selection way that except for a few instances, all groups are closed in Barbados from eight p.M. Saturday 28 till April 14.

He added: “This isn't always a curfew to preserve regulation and order, this is a period at some point of which we are going to critically and in a compulsory manner restriction human activity, plain and simple.”