Mixed reaction from churches to restrictions on gatherings
Worshippers at some Pentecostal and evangelical churches across the country showed up for their weekly Sunday services, adamant that the country needed prayers now more than ever despite restrictions...
View ArticleShut-offs by the Barbados Water Authority to continue
The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) is reminding the public that the shut-offs implemented during 2019 still remain in effect into this year 2020. This action of periodic shut-offs is being taken in...
View ArticleNo new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Barbados today
Barbados has recorded no new cases from COVID-19, the Ministry of Health and Wellness this evening reported. In a statement issued by the Barbados Government Information Service it said 11 people...
View ArticlePenalties For Breaching Self-Quarantine
Persons who have been ordered to self-quarantine in their homes but fail to do so are guilty of an offence under the Health Services (Communicable and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations. Under the law,...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Critical Stock List
The Ministry of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Commerce has advised that a Covid-19 Critical Stock List was tabled by the Ministry last week and agreed upon by the Barbados Chamber of Commerce...
View ArticleSafe haven – Trinis, denied return home, kept in quarantine here
Just as it came to the rescue of stranded cruise ship passengers turned away from several seaports in the COVID-19 crisis, Barbados today became a safe haven for a group of 35 elderly Trinidadians now...
View ArticleWoman racks up more theft convictions
Known thief Keisha Melissa Clarke has been sentenced to nine months in prison on two charges. The 32-year-old, of Quarry Road, Arthur Seat, St Thomas pleaded guilty before Magistrate Kristie...
View ArticleYouth on gun and ammo charges
An automatic 28 days on remand at Dodds Prison was what a young St Michael man received when he appeared before one of this island’s courts on two indictable charges at the weekend. Rackeem Shaquille...
View ArticleAll hands on deck, says Minister of Health
Retired doctors and nurses and members of the private sector healthcare system will be asked to assist with the national COVID-19 response. In a press briefing over the weekend, Minister of Health and...
View ArticleHyatt a go, says Maloney
After five years of controversy and legal challenges, a US$175 million revamped Hyatt Ziva Barbados Resort will finally get off the ground next month. Developer Mark Maloney told Barbados TODAY this...
View Article#BTEditorial – The bitter medicine of truth
The Greek playwright Aeschylus once observed: “In war, the first casualty is truth.” And in the thousands of years since, those words have come true repeatedly in conflict after conflict. Aeschylus’...
View ArticleGG: “This too will pass”
In a speech meant to calm and assure nervous citizens, Governor General Dame Sandra Mason told Barbadians on Sunday night that as difficult as the current period was, “this too shall pass”. In a...
View ArticleMinistry of Education temporarily ceases operations
In response to Stage 3 of Barbados’ National Preparedness Plan for COVID-19, the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training has advised that its offices at the “Elsie Payne...
View ArticleClose the caskets for now
Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anton Best is recommending funeral homes end open casket services, out of an abundance of caution, as the COVID-19 cases in Barbados rise to 33 today. Speaking on a...
View ArticleBWU clarifies vacation option
Employees temporarily left on the breadline by the ongoing national shutdown are again being advised that they cannot be forced to take vacation without 14 days notice. Word of this from the Barbados...
View ArticlePAHO urges shore up health system
The head of the Pan American Health Organisation has urged Barbados and its regional neighbours to move urgently to shore up their health care systems to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, warning the...
View ArticleJamaican remanded for breaking curfew
A Jamaican woman who disobeyed the national nightly curfew imposed by the Government has been remanded to Dodds pending sentence. Christean Bridgette Beacon, who has no fixed place of abode, will...
View ArticleStill no money for quarry’s severed workers
Former employees of bankrupt construction firm Black Bess Quarry Limited are slowly losing hope of ever receiving any of the thousands owed them since January when the company started to fold. As the...
View ArticleEx-central banker urges ‘special COVID-19 bonds’
Special COVID-19 bonds, financial support for entrepreneurs and testing of all medical workers and those at the island’s ports of entry, are some of the recommendations coming from former Central Bank...
View ArticleCuban nurses ‘coming to help with nursing shortage’
Cuban nurses could soon be here to help fill the void in the public health system, Barbados TODAY has learned. This is an addition to the medical personnel and drugs the Cuban government,...
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