Government plans to use savings from a proposed $1.2 billion debt buyback to fund health and nutrition initiatives.These will include behavioral change programmes and regional food security efforts, with the goal of improving public health outcomes for the next three to five years.This is according to Minister of Finance Ryan Straughn, who spoke at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados’ Childhood Obesity Prevention programme launch at the …
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