A ‘delightful’ day at the beach – for three hours
Scores of beach lovers headed out early this morning to take a long-awaited dip as the ease on COVID-19 lockdown measures took effect. Beaches reopened at 6 a.m. under limited hours and physical...
View ArticleBWA urges customers to disregard disconnection messages
BWA Reaches Out to its Residential Customers The Barbados Water Authority advises residential customers that as a result of the national shutdown for COVID-19 some water bills may still inadvertently...
View ArticleThank you, Barbados
Thirty-three Trinidadians who were provided with safe refuge by the Barbados Government over the last two months has been expressing their gratitude. The group, which is scheduled to end two weeks of...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Update: No new cases today
Barbados has recorded no new COVID-19 cases today. Health authorities say no positive cases were diagnosed from 91 tests conducted on Monday. One person will leave isolation today after recovering...
View ArticleAirbnb is laying off 25 percent of its employees
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky sent a note to his staff on Tuesday morning saying he had to “share some very sad news.” He was letting them know that the home rental company had decided to layoff around 25%...
View ArticleStoute says he broke window to rescue former girlfriend
Conductor Shaqueale Kimal Stoute claimed he was lied to and did not know what was going on when he broke a window to get his former girlfriend out of another man’s house. The 26-year-old, of Hillbury...
View ArticleNew curfew for accused Brathwaite
A 22-year-old from Valley Land, St George will reappear in court on July 21 on three charges. When Rashawn Shaqur George Brathwaite appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes today he was granted...
View ArticleThreats land Cox in court
A 63-year-old retiree who appeared on a criminal charge in the District ‘D’ Magistrates’ Court recently is on $2,500 bail. It is alleged that Andrew Fabian O’Neal Cox, of Lot 1 Rock Hall, St George...
View ArticleMore non Barbadians seek help
The list of stranded migrants including sex workers in need of food, medicine and other essentials has more than doubled in less than two weeks, according to Migration Specialist Dr Olivia Smith. In a...
View ArticleAG ‘to meet lawyers soon’ over criminal justice changes
With the bar association peeved over the Government’s “failure” to consult them prior to introducing a contentious bill to drastically change the criminal justice system, the Attorney General Dale...
View ArticleSymmonds ‘to come to aid’ of small tourism players
Minister of Tourism Kerrie Symmonds has pledged the Government’s help for small businesses, entrepreneurs and tourist attractions to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic. And he told journalists during a...
View ArticleSeth in a fight for his life
Eighteen-year-old Seth Cole, whose battle with an aggressive and rare form of cancer has been moving people around the world to act and donate, is now in Trinidad and Tobago receiving critical...
View ArticleTourism braces to go on without American visitors
The tourism industry may have to recover without the help of one of its main source markets, the US, dealing a potentially massive blow to the already crippled industry, Tourism Minister Kerrie...
View Article#BTEditorial – Free at last? Not so fast!
Starting yesterday, Barbados began to loosen the terms and conditions of its current emergency procedures enacted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully we have not had a significant rise in...
View ArticleBSTU questions Govt’s laundry list of expectations
The Barbados Secondary Teachers Union (BSTU) has given the Ministry of Education an ultimatum to meet on a list of contentious “expectations” for administering the new online school term that started...
View Article‘No mask, no pickup’, PSVs told
The spokesman for minibus and route taxi owners has advised drivers to leave commuters at the bus stop if they are not wearing a mask, even though it is not currently mandated by Government. But...
View ArticleLegitimate businesses could be linked to Crop theft – BARVEN
Supermarkets and hotels may be complicit in the trafficking of stolen farm produce, the head of the vendors association has charged, suggesting these, too, like vendors may need to be scrutinised....
View ArticleAll is well, says migrant worker in Canada
A Barbadian hotel contract worker in Canada is countering the bleak outlook painted by one of her male colleagues who is among a 19-member group of locals currently waiting to return home after their...
View ArticlePAHO chief warns against relaxing social distance rules
The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa F. Etienne today warned that relaxing social distancing measures “too soon could accelerate the spread of the virus and open the...
View ArticleBAS: Drought, disappearing farmland block food boost
The country’s chief advocate for farmers has identified the current drought and the ongoing disposal of farm land as obstacles to food self-sufficiency. And chief executive officer of the Barbados...
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