More laws to safeguard workers coming
Amendments to existing legislation which will allow victims of violence or harassment at work to “remove themselves” from their workplace environment without fearing penalties from their employers are...
View ArticleNew job rules?
The “last in first out” method used by Government to fire workers in the public sector could soon become a thing of the past, Prime Minister Mia Mottley has indicated. In addition, she said a new...
View ArticleFashion Week coming
There will be a Barbados Fashion Week, Minister of Small Business Dwight Sutherland has promised. But he has also urged designers to let Government help them form a fashion cooperative. The Minister...
View ArticleOil giant gets offshore exploration licences
The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources has issued effective offshore exploration licences for the Carlisle Bay and Bimshire blocks to Australian oil and gas giant BHP Petroleum. Minister Wilfred...
View ArticleBWA says operations at Belle Pumping Station not affected by small fire
The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) says operations at its Belle Pumping Station were not affected by a small fire that occurred there this morning. The fire, which occurred within the south-eastern...
View ArticleTeen murder accused remanded
Murder accused 17-year-old Tyreke Delandre Benskin has been remanded to HMP Dodds. Benskin of Promenade Road, Bush Hall, St Michael is accused of taking the life of 22-year-old Shakeem Holder, also...
View ArticleMings off the road for more than six months for traffic offences
A man who drove illegally says he was “smoking a spliff” while behind the wheel and tried to evade police accumulating several traffic offences in the process. And After spending a night on remand at...
View ArticlePinelands man on indecency charge
Society must be protected from a 54-year-old man accused of serious indecency against a child. The accused also has a warrant out for absconding court on a similar matter. Those were some of the...
View ArticleGanja grower pleads guilty
A 30-year-old man accused of cultivating marijuana was granted $2,000 bail today in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. Randy Rico Neblett, of Storey Gap Codrington Hill, St Michael, is also accused...
View ArticleSpeightstown folk told renewal must be community effort
Speightstown has great potential to become a heritage, cultural and artistic hub, residents have said, but any efforts to accomplish this must begin at the community level. This was the consensus as...
View Article#BTEditorial – Prime Minister: Are you listening?
The Prime Minister’s frank revelation yesterday that she could not give Barbadians any guarantees that there won’t be more layoffs or rises in taxes and fees has stirred up much reaction from the...
View ArticleMotion to remove BUT president scrapped
The President of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) Sean Spencer has emerged from an attempt to oust him through a no confidence motion “angry” but unscathed after the effort fell flat. A meeting,...
View ArticleStill too long for approvals
Prominent local businessman Ralph Bizzy Williams says he is eager to answer Government’s call to invest and grow the ailing economy, but he laments the length of time it is taking him to get necessary...
View ArticleBWA makes ‘major breakthrough’
The days of burst pipes flooding streets for weeks and sometimes months at a time is now expected to be a thing of the past, the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) has claimed. The state-owned water...
View ArticleMangrove Landfill left ‘smouldering’
Sanitation Service Authority officials appeared close to regains control of the landfill at Mangrove Pond, St. Thomas after a tyre fire swept through the facility for four days. But residents downwind...
View ArticleResist corruption, private sector told
President of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) Trisha Tannis has acknowledged the role of the private sector in the stain of the money laundering scandal involving former Government...
View ArticleMinister: BWA preps for worsening drought
With the Barbados Meteorological Service’s warning to brace for a hot and dry year as the worst drought since 1960 persists, the Minister responsible for water resources has given the assurance that...
View ArticlePM urges Chefette to go ‘homegrown’
Fast-food restaurant chain Chefette has been given a challenge by Prime Minister Mia Mottley to add more homegrown items to its menu and help address the issue of lifestyle diseases (NCDs) on the...
View ArticleSJPI at 50: Praise, plaques and solar power
The nation’s premier technical school’s 50th anniversary was toasted on Wednesday with a solar-power mural, a plaque and high praise for its role in a future, fully smart Barbados. The Samuel Jackman...
View ArticleRecycling plant ready to step in
A leading local recycling company is telling the Government that it is ready and able to help make landfill fires a thing of the past. Owner of B’s Recycling at Cane Garden, St Thomas Paul Bynoe said...
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