Dear Editor,
Please grant me a small space in your well-read newspaper to voice my opinion.
Nurses
I would assume many are familiar with the “Hippocratic Oath”. It is an oath typically taken by physicians. It is widely known in Greek medical texts. However, I wonder how many are familiar with a modified "Hippocratic Oath" for nurses called the Florence Nightingale Pledge. Lystra E. Gretter and a Committee for Farrand Training School for Nurses, Detroit, Michigan, composed this in 1893 as a token of esteem for the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale herself. It reads as follows:
“I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping, and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavour to aid the physician in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.”
The aforementioned paragraphs are not meant to give anyone a history lesson, but merely a reminder. “I will treat the ill to the best of my ability and the preserve a patients’ privacy. As well as not be ashamed to say, “If I know not will I not fail to call on my colleagues when needed”.
Banking
Seeing the imminent closure of Windward Islands Bank Ltd., and the lack of a second commercial bank setting up shop and staying on our island, I wonder: Would the “Government” grant permission to a company to offer Vault and Safe Deposit boxes? These are not typically available at a local financial institution, or storage company anyway. Of course, they would need to have a controlled environment with all the safety precautions in place, just as the ones all over the world. You see, some people think they can sing and drink water at the same time.
Wild Animals
Saba has made it known; we have a problem with goats on Social Media and government expedited orders to kill them. You can look around and see the big wooden house. You must remember the gods of Saba are dead. Those gods would have known what to do with them.
Name withheld at author's request.
