Crop Over players support Govt’s festival cancellation
Some of the major players in Crop Over today declared total agreement with the Government’s decision to cancel the 2020 festival. Bandleaders, tent managers and entertainers told Barbados TODAY that...
View ArticleVeteran Democratic Labour Party stalwart Astor B. Watts has passed away at...
DLP President Verla DePeiza has described Watts as a fearless, long standing member of the party who would be sorely missed. Below is the full statement: In current parlance, Astor B Watts is what...
View ArticleHomeward bound: T&T nationals return home
Thirty-three Trinidad and Tobago nationals stranded in Barbados by the COVID-19 virus are at the Grantley Adams International Airport to return home today. The group’s attorney Prakash Ramadhar said...
View ArticleUpdate: Delayed Trinidadians make final preparations to leave Barbados
After being delayed by another round of testing, Trinidadians anxious to head home are now making final preparations to board their chartered flight. The group of 33 Trinidadians had arrived at the...
View ArticleNo new cases, two patients to be released from isolation
For the sixth consecutive day, there were no new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Barbados. However, two more persons will be released from isolation today after testing negative twice within a 48-hour...
View ArticleThief ‘picks’ prison stay
Scaling the walls of another man’s residence twice in a bid to steal limes during the Covid-19 curfew has landed a 45-year-old man in jail for the next six months. Tony Ricardo Harris, of Lower Carters...
View ArticleAlleged arsonist remanded
An alleged arsonist has been remanded to prison until May 19. Christopher Stephen Licorish, of no fixed place of abode, appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today accused of destroying the...
View ArticleThree on serious bodily harm charge
Two tree trimmers and a soldier were today granted $9,000 bail each on a joint criminal charge. They are 48-year-old Rene Orlando Pilgrim and 24-year-old Raheem Akeem Grimes both, of 5th Avenue North...
View Article#BTEditorial – Crop Over and NIFCA cancelled. A chance to reboot.
Over the weekend, Crop Over, “the sweetest summer festival”, and the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) became the latest casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic. An official release...
View ArticleInsurer General Accident enters Barbados market
A Jamaica-based general insurance company with an operation in Trinidad is set to enter the Barbadian market following regulatory approval here, the firm said. General Accident Insurance Company...
View ArticleAnother round of Clap Barbados
As Barbadians are being invited to join others elsewhere in the world to applaud health care workers and first responders on the frontline of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the organisers of...
View ArticleeLearning begins at colleges, private schools
Online teaching is underway at all tertiary institutions and most private schools, the Ministry of Education has declared, even as it is yet to declare if and when the third term of the school year is...
View ArticlePAHO gives more kits for COVID fight
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has boosted Barbados’ COVID-19 testing capabilities with a donation of 11,000 testing kits. Accepting the kits and 782 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)...
View ArticlePay your water bill, says minister
As Barbados faces its worst drought in decades, Minister of Water Resources Wilfred Abraham revealed the state-owned water authority was battling its own lack of flowing funds. He warned that revenue...
View ArticleTrinis back home after being stranded here
The 33 elderly Trinidadians who were stranded in Barbados for 29 days, 14 in mandatory quarantine, landed on Trinidadian soil earlier this afternoon and were immediately put back in quarantine. The...
View ArticleCarter: Not yet in the clear
It would be unwise of Government to ease the current restrictions despite Barbados not recording a positive test for coronavirus in the past six days, COVID-19 Czar Richard Carter has declared. He is...
View ArticleT&T students at Cave Hill plead for a response from authorities in Port of Spain
More than a dozen Trinidad and Tobago nationals who are studying at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus are today expressing concern that their cries for help from authorities in...
View ArticlePlan to help artistes as nightlife vanishes
The disappearance of the entertainment scene as Barbados fights the COVID-19 pandemic has left artistes singing the blues. With the island in curfew mode for almost a month, the closure of hotels and...
View ArticleEquipment arrives
Government today received additional medical equipment to aid in its fight against COVID-19. According to a source close to the situation, five Nihon Kohden ventilators (NKV 550) ventilators arrived on...
View ArticleHealth body seeks ramped-up viral probes
Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) officials are eager to see more testing for the COVID-19 virus being conducted in the Caribbean and Latin America. In addition, PAHO is recommending that...
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