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Health and safety protest at Oran
A persistent rodent problem at longstanding aluminum furniture-maker Oran Limited, prompted workers to walk off the job Tuesday and summon the Barbados Workers Union (BWU). The production Department’s...
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Americas pools to buy, fairly share COVID-19 meds – PAHO
Countries in the Caribbean and Latin America are to join forces to ensure equal access to medicines and vaccines for COVID-19, the hemisphere’s top health official announced on Tuesday. The Director of...
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Ease up on sending bailiff, Lashley urges retailers
The pandemic crisis is not yet over but retailers are chasing down householders to pay their bills, former social transformation minister Hamilton Lashley has said, pleading for sympathy with the...
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Blackman & Gollop back as school
Blackman & Gollop Primary School on Tuesday ended its role as a coronavirus isolation centre when the Ministry of Health formally returned a sanitised and spruced-up campus to the Ministry of...
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Infants return to care centres
Things are beginning to look up for daycare owners. Three weeks after being allowed to re-open their doors, the majority of owners of daycares and nurseries are reporting increased numbers of children...
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#BTEditorial – Boss pay. What price income inequality?
Among the many faces of rising income inequality over the last four decades is the particularly unpleasant spectre of an explosion in pay for top corporate executives. Well-paid chief executives, like...
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#BTFocus – White, red and sparkling . . . Hospitality professionals to do...
Mixologists, bartenders and other hospitality professionals in the Caribbean, who have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will be the beneficiaries of a partnership between the West...
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Barbados TODAY statement
On Tuesday, Barbados TODAY in its regular coverage of news interviewed an 11-year-old child with the permission of his mother. He had just completed a four-hour-long examination for entry into...
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COVID-19 UPDATE: One new case today
Out-of-the-box thinking by Barbadian health authorities have netted this country another COVID-19 case, which, under normal circumstances, could have gone undetected for a long period of time. Chief...
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Lord gets 18 years for businessman’s death
Chris Avian Amal Lord has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the shooting incident on Baxter’s Road, the City on May 10, 2016, that led to the death of businessman Colin Forde....
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Remote work tourist plan detailed
Individuals seeking to take advantage of the proposed 12-month Barbados Welcome Stamp will have to be earning a minimum of US$50,000 annually. This is among the criteria outlined by Minister of Tourism...
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One Caribbean to establish base here
In another two weeks, Vincentian airline One Caribbean Ltd is to establish a base here, beginning with at least four daily flights, Minister of Tourism Kerrie Symmonds, has declared. Several other...
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#BTEditorial – There are some sick ones out there
We do not need a United Nations charter on the rights of children to tell those who are sane about the importance of our offspring and the necessity to raise them in a wholesome and nurturing...
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‘I am only 11’
An 11-year-old boy is so distraught by the negative publicity from a case of cyber bullying that he has spoken about no longer wanting to live. Keishawn Thomas who is at the centre of a cyber bullying...
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In strange twist, woman tests positive for COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has produced its most recent – and strangest – instance so far in which a person tested positive for COVID-19 after sailing through the test twice before. In an equally unusual...
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Health Minister advises public to mask up
Barbadians are now able to move around the island freely following weeks of lockdown but Minister of Health Lt Col Jeffrey Bostic has urged that they continue to wear masks to protect against...
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Small hotels, Minister discuss credit lifeline
Devastated by tourism’s worst-ever crisis, small hoteliers are eager to emerge from months of closed doors but are unable to access the lifeline Government promised them just over two months ago, they...
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Hope alive
There appears to be some chance for the creation of a new LIAT 2020 Limited after all. This was indicated to Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne in a letter dated July 7, 2020 sent by...
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Tour operator sides with Caribbean over ‘deadbeat’ operators
A British tour operator has blasted four big tour operators in the UK for failing to pay millions of dollars owed to Caribbean hotels. Paul Cleary, the owner and chief executive officer of Caribtours,...
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Senator doubts 2030 renewable energy date
Opposition Senator Crystal Drakes has cast doubt over whether Barbados can meet the goal of 100 per cent renewable energy generation by 2030, suggesting the country has ‘unfinished business’ standing...
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