Stay-at-home restriction to move to 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., says PM
The 24-hour stay-at-home order is to revert to an overnight curfew from Monday as Government moves to a staged reopening of businesses; Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced tonight. But as she...
View Article‘Unprecedented’ $2 billion economy recovery plan
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Prime Minister tonight unveiled an “unprecedented” $2 billion economic plan over the next two years to prop up the economy. The Prime Minister said a $400...
View ArticleTwo nabbed over monkey burning video
Police have arrested two St Joseph men and slapped them with animal cruelty charges over a viral video in which a monkey was burned alive while others cheered, triggering public outrage. The arrests...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Update: One new case today
A 32-year-old Barbadian male is the latest COVID-19-positive patient. He was among 155 people tested yesterday. Of the 122 results returned so far by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory, he is...
View ArticleGuard falls victim to robbery
An act of revenge landed Shanie McCarlo Callendar before the law court today for the first time in his life. The 28-year-old, of no fixed place of abode, pleaded guilty to entering the George Lamming...
View ArticleAlleged curfew breaker pleads not guilty
Another young man charged with breaking the curfew order among other charges was released on bail today. Rackesh Kishmar Oneal Grant, of Lower Carters Gap, Christ Church is charged with using a...
View Article#BTEditorial – May Day for the Barbadian worker
When the Right Excellent Sir Grantley Adams, the Right Excellent Sir Hugh Springer, the Right Excellent Sir Frank Walcott, Sir Mencea Cox, Sir MacDonald Blunt and others of this band of revolutionary...
View ArticleGas station attendant charged with robbery
A 22-year-old man was remanded to Dodds today on an indictable robbery charge. Atsu Kehinde Tese Jones, of Kendal Hill Tenantry B, Christ Church will make his next court appearance on May 28. Jones, a...
View ArticlePrices probe on the cards
Central Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes has frowned on some merchants who are accused of taking advantage of customers during the COVID-19 pandemic by charging higher than usual prices. However, stating...
View ArticleIMF’s vote of confidence
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is so assured of Barbados’ economic plan that it is set to pump an extra $280 million (US$140 million) in financial support, it said Thursday evening. And the...
View ArticleSmall biz leader gives recovery plan thumbs up
A leader of the small business community has expressed delight at the COVID-19 relief measures announced by Prime Minister Mia Mottley during a televised address to the nation on Wednesday night. In a...
View ArticleHotel workers in Canada ‘to return in May’
A group of at least 18 Barbadians who were laid off while on a Government-sponsored labour scheme in Canada will be home before the end of May, Minister of Labour Colin Jordan has promised. But the...
View ArticleCTO: Brace for ‘25-year’ tourism setback
Barbados and other tourism-dependent countries across the region have been told to brace for declines in stay-over arrivals that could set the region’s major economic industry back as many as 25 years,...
View ArticleFarm anti-theft unit coming – Prime Minister
The Royal Barbados Police Force is to set up a praedial larceny unit, said Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Wednesday as she announced a 750-acre land cultivation project whose crops and livestock will...
View ArticleRoom for more to be done to chart new paths
Government’s decision to partially re-open the country has been met with some disappointment from the Democratic Labour Party, which contends that “fundamental changes” should have been made to the way...
View ArticleTalks on bank fees ongoing
Plans by the Central Bank of Barbados to have at least two credit unions join the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network and to start publishing some fees of commercial banks have been further delayed....
View ArticleRe-opening just in time
Barbados’ private sector would be on the brink of catastrophe if it had to endure a sixth straight week of a corporate shutdown, says head of the Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) Edward...
View ArticleGovernor predicts steep drop in Barbados’ economic position
The Central Bank of Barbados is predicting a record double-digit decline of up to 13 per cent in economic activity this year. Furthermore, the bank says, Government will be forced to secure millions of...
View ArticleNAB workers fret over quarantine conditions
The main public sector trade union here has launched an investigation into complaints over the living conditions of those National Assistance Board (NAB) workers who were recently placed in quarantine...
View ArticleLabour Minister Colin Jordan’s May Day message
As we acknowledge International Workers’ Day 2020, commonly referred to as May Day, we can be sure that this day, May 1, will be remembered as one of the toughest days for workers, as well as for...
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