The Trinidad & Tobago-based Massy Holdings Group is still awaiting the Barbados Fair Trading Commission’s (FTC) approval of its sale of Seawell Air Services to Goddard Enterprises Limited (GEL). This was outlined in the most recent six-month unaudited financial filing by the regional conglomerate. In a statement from chairman Robert Bermudez which accompanied the financials, […]
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Caribbean nations that have endured major hurricanes over the past four years have found themselves revising their preparedness plans as they move to reopen their borders from the coronavirus pandemic. During the Caribbean Tourism Organisation’s Storm Lessons discussion, senior tourism officials from Anguilla, St. Maarten and its French counterpart, St. Martin, the British Virgin Islands, […]
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With two weeks to go before the St Kitts & Nevis general election on June 5, that country’s Ambassador to the United Nations Sam Condor has resigned from that posting. He is set to make an official statement tomorrow on his future. Condor previously served as the twin-island federation’s Foreign Minister in then Prime Minister […]
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The Cuban nurses who are treating COVID-19 patients are settling in well and are proving to be a huge asset to the short-staffed health care system, according to a senior hospital official. The QEH’s head of nursing services Henderson Pinder said health authorities are thankful to have the nurses working with them during the pandemic. […]
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The Cabinet Minister who oversees industrial relations matters in this country is suggesting pay cuts for managers who require their workers to take a reduction in salaries. Colin Jordan, the Minister of Labour and Social Partnership Relations said today the burden must be shared proportionately as the country tries to navigate the current economic and […]
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Dairy farms are in a very fragile state, veteran dairy producer Paul Davis declared today, suggesting that a once-thriving industry struggles against a slew of issues. Now he and other milk producers are pinning their hopes on Argentina, one of the world’s biggest dairy-producing nations to come to their rescue. Davis blamed a declining national […]
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A special task force dedicated to improving the island’s tourism has been convened and is already at work, Minister of Tourism Kerrie Symmonds today revealed. Chairing the Barbados Tourism Recovery Task Force is Dr Kerry Hall, the tourism ministry’s Director of Tourism Development while veteran hotelier Peter Odle is the deputy chairman. Symmonds said: “This […]
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There are no newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in Barbados today. All 116 tests conducted for the viral illness yesterday were negative. The number of persons infected since March 16 remains at 90 – 47 females and 43 males. Seventy people have recovered and 13 remain in isolation. No one was released […]
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Police are investigating the unnatural death of a man, which occurred around 11:30 a.m. According to acting Police Public Relations Officer Station Sergeant Michael Blackman, lawmen responded to a report that an unresponsive male was pulled from the waters at Long Bay Beach, near Sam Lord’s Castle, St Philip. On their arrival, the man, whose […]
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Police are seeking the public’s assistance to locate a missing teenager. He is 16-year-old Guyanese national Joshua Dexter Nurse who lives at #6 Buttals Tenantry, St George. Joshua, a fifth form student of St George Secondary, has been living here with his mother Karima Nurse since last year. Karima disclosed that she last saw her […]
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Police are investigating the discovery of a body at Strathclyde, St Michael around 5 p.m. Acting Police Public Relations Officer Sergeant Michael Blackman told Barbados TODAY, personnel from the Barbados Fire Service were conducting business in the community when they found the body of an adult male on an open lot. Blackman said was no […]
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Our friends up North have often become reference points for matters of governance and leadership. Admittedly, in recent years some of those references have not been for the provision of stellar examples. Quite the contrary. The mighty United States, for the most part, has long articulated and represented the standards by which strong and vibrant […]
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Raffique Vincent Murray told police back in 2016 he killed David Harewood because, “I did not like how he was talking to me and touching me.” Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale said the then 16-year-old Murray, of Sinckler Road, Haggatt Hall, St Michael, made the comment to lawmen who were investigating the circumstances […]
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The Sandy Lane Charitable Trust (SLCT) is assuring Barbadians that its donation of 1.5 million in grocery vouchers to help families impacted by COVID-19 over a course of six weeks has built-in controls for full accountability. Board Trustee with the SLCT Phillipa Challis revealed that the Trust was looking at donating an additional $1.5 million […]
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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) will drastically change the way it operates when it fully re-opens after the COVID-19 pandemic. That is the word from Dr Clyde Cave, acting Director of Medical Services at the state-run hospital, who today announced that smaller clinic sizes, a pharmacy medication delivery system, limited visiting, spaced seating and the […]
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Executive chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland has declared success in the hospital’s handling of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, at a cost of $9 million. As she unveiled the QEH’s strategy for the safe resumption of outpatient and elective surgical services to journalists, Bynoe-Sutherland revealed that $5.9 million had been spent on […]
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A 38-year-old man says he is feeling traumatized after being treated in what he described as an inhumane manner by some medical professionals at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH). Jeremy Hoyte said he will never forget the treatment on April 30 when personnel suspected he may have had COVID-19. […]
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The bodies of two men were discovered in separate locations today, leaving police to investigate one of them as an unnatural death. An unidentified man may have drowned at Long Bay Beach, near Sam Lord’s Castle, St Philip, and firemen discovered the body of another on an open lot at Strathclyde, St Michael. A man, […]
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Caribbean tourism, pummelled by the impact of the coronavirus, may need to move away from mass market tourism as post-COVID-19 may see fewer tourist arrivals, experts have told a webinar on the ailing industry. Caribbean Development Bank official S. Brian Samuel warned that there may not be a quick rebound in regional tourism, neither long-stay […]
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The Cave Shepherd group of companies has predicted a rough year for business, with COVID-19 wiping out expected profits. But its board has expressed confidence the retail and financial services giant can ride out the turbulence and maintain its $41 million cash reserves to provide room to make “strategic moves” under prolonged uncertainty. In its […]
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