Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley yes­ter­day an­nounced that from Ju­ly 1 there will be no more cur­few re­stric­tions in Bar­ba­dos in the first sign that the coun­try is seek­ing to re­open ac­tiv­i­ty fol­low­ing COVID-19 re­stric­tions.

In ad­di­tion, Mot­t­ley phys­i­cal dis­tanc­ing will now be one me­tre (three feet).

The prime min­is­ter al­so an­nounced that com­mer­cial air traf­fic will re­sume on Ju­ly 12 with Air Cana­da be­ing the first to re­turn to ac­tiv­i­ty at the Grant­ley Adams In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. She said British Air­ways will restart on Ju­ly 18 from Gatwick; Jet­blue from JFK in New York on Ju­ly 25; Vir­gin At­lantic on Au­gust 1 and Amer­i­can Air­lines on Au­gust 5. She said it is an­tic­i­pat­ed Caribbean Air­lines will re­sume in mid-Ju­ly.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Dale Mar­shall al­so an­nounced the fol­low­ing mea­sures:

• All day­care cen­tres will re­open to full ca­pac­i­ty from next week

• Sport­ing events will be able to have spec­ta­tors, once phys­i­cal dis­tanc­ing and wear­ing of masks are ob­served. In­door events will be sub­ject to den­si­ty re­quire­ments.

• The lim­it for out­door en­ter­tain­ment and so­cial events has been raised to 500 peo­ple, and those in­door will be sub­ject to den­si­ty ca­pac­i­ty.

• From Ju­ly 15, once the COVID-19 Mon­i­tor­ing Unit ap­proves, that lim­it can go above 500.

• The one-hour lim­it for church ser­vices will al­so be lift­ed, and bap­tisms will be per­mit­ted once peo­ple wear gloves, but the oth­er pro­to­cols re­main. (Bar­ba­dos Dai­ly Na­tion)