Clik here to view.
St Thomas MP wants help for displaced residents
Parliamentary representative for St Thomas Cynthia Forde has called on Government to reserve at least two or three units in every housing project for persons who have lost their homes through fire,...
View ArticleBajan freed of drug charges in Jamaica
A Barbadian man who was charged with drug trafficking in Jamaica was freed when he appeared in court yesterday. Darnell McArthur Browne was charged on Wednesday, after the police intercepted a vehicle...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sugar industry dying
Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler is warning that Barbados’ sugar industry will die in another two to three years and that is why it was vital for Government to go the direction of a multi-purpose...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dame Billie rallies BLP members
The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) opened its 76th Annual Conference last night with the honouring of longstanding servants and a call from veteran Dame Billie Miller for members to give their 100 per...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Social activist against hotel on Brown’s Beach
Leave Brown’s Beach to the people of Barbados! Social activist David Comissiong made that appeal to Government on the heels of the announcement that work will begin in the first quarter of 2015 on a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
QEH ensuring infections remain under control
Although there has been a reduction in the spread of infections at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), the Hospital Control Unit (HCU) is working hard to ensure there is even further decline. That was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Peter Roy Byer dies
Acclaimed cinematographer, videographer and still photographer Peter Roy Byer has died. He passed away this afternoon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at the age of 68. Byer had been hospitalised since...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Arthur well on the mend
Former Prime Minister Owen Arthur has thanked well-wishers, including those in the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), for their sentiments expressed, as he continues his recovery from a recent...
View ArticlePetitiion against isolation centre
Despite Minister of Health John Boyce’s serving notice that the controversial infectious disease isolation centre will open as planned at the Enmore facility, teachers and parents of the nearby...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NUPW not backing down on BCC
Until management of the Barbados Community College (BCC) agrees to meet with unionized employees and their bargaining agent to resolve outstanding grievances, they will stay away from the classrooms...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MEDICAL AID
A sex therapy clinic is to open its doors in Barbados and that operation, along with the fertility clinic and other medical tourism businesses, will get the same concessions as hotels. Doctors will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Employ them!
They may have served several years behind bars, but Minister of Home Affairs Adriel Brathwaite said today a prison record is no reason why former inmates of Dodds, who have completed their prison...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Don’t panic’
Don’t write off the Barbados economy just yet. Former Prime Minister Owen Arthur said that while the island might be facing a “crisis of confidence” at this stage, the economic situation remained...
View ArticleAG supports PSC decision
Recent promotions in the Royal Barbados Police Force are getting the backing of the Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs. “The Police Service Commission has within their power to make...
View ArticleDone with PIs
The Freundel Stuart administration is abolishing preliminary inquiries (PIs) in the Magistrates’ Courts. Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite informed the monthly business luncheon of the Barbados...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TIME UP
After more than five decades of renting a piece of land in the Belle Gully area, a St Michael family has been told by the landowners they have to vacate the premises by tomorrow morning or their houses...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BCC denies NUPW lockout
Tensions ran high and police had to be called in as the bitter impasse between management of the Barbados Community College (BCC) and the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) escalated this morning....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Calling 511
A week after Barbados TODAY highlighted the acute situation at the Accident & Emergency Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), in terms of patients having to wait for hours, sometimes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No Alexandra repeat
As Jeff Broomes today hinted that his time as principal of the Parkinson Memorial Secondary School was nearing an end, his union urged all parties involved in the dispute at The Pine, St Michael school...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Call for prostate cancer test cut
The incidence of prostate cancer in Barbados is so high that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital is preparing to submit a recommendation for a 50 per cent cut in the cost of the examination used to detect the...
View Article