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CARICOM’s Reparatory Justice Campaign
In the coming months and years ahead, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be fleshing out an internationalist dimension of its Reparatory Justice Campaign. Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM David...
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Barbados, St Vincent PMs to meet with PM Gaston Browne next Monday on LIAT
Caribbean News Service – A week after a meeting of LIAT’s major shareholders failed to get off the ground due the unavailability of Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, another meeting has been set...
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Lively send off for Rita Sissy Hunte
Rita Sissy Hunte had the type of lively send off at the Berinda Cox Fish Market not usually associated with the gloom of a funeral service. The two-hour long service, headed by the Spiritual Baptist...
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Courts Barbados awards shoppers with prizes and donations
Courts Barbados has awarded more than $30 000 in cash prizes and donations to shoppers and members of the community. Managing Director of Courts Trisha Tannis announced that the Queen Elizabeth...
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Body found following incident at Orange Hill, St James
Police responding to a telephone call from a male just around 11:55 p.m. Saturday night say they stumbled on a body. Police say the caller reported there was a dispute, which had become an altercation...
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Fogging schedule for July 20 – 24
The Vector Control Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness will continue its fogging exercise in St Michael and St. James this week. On Monday, July 20, areas to be fogged in St James are 1st and...
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Apparent standoff as Antigua refuses to allow CDB-owned LIAT aircraft to be...
Caribbean News Service (CNS) – There is an apparent standoff between Barbados and Antigua — LIAT’s largest shareholder and the airline’s headquarters, respectively. Sources close to the situation have...
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COVID-19 UPDATE: One new case; seven in isolation
Barbados recorded one new case of COVID-19 yesterday when a passenger on a British Airways flight tested positive on arrival at the Grantley Adams International Airport. The 76-year-old Barbadian was...
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BAMP executive council asked to resign after no confidence vote
Members of the local medical fraternity have thrown out the entire executive council of their umbrella representative organisation. The dramatic move came during a rescheduled annual general meeting of...
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Jet ski operators, others provide input to improve existing laws
The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy recently convened a closed door briefing involving members from the jet ski and pleasure cruise operations communities in addition to other...
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Reorganizing cash-starved LIAT requires initial reinvestment of EC$108 million
The Mia Mottley Administration is being asked to share part of the financial burden in a new rescue plan to reorganize cash-starved LIAT, which requires an initial reinvestment of EC$108 million. The...
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England wins second test to level series
SOURCE-AFP — England beat the West Indies by 113 runs to win the second Test at Old Trafford on Monday. West Indies, who set a nominal 312 to win, were bowled out for 198 on the fifth and final day as...
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Update: Ten-year-old boy is latest COVID-19 case
A ten-year-old boy is the latest COVID-19-positive patient in Barbados. The Barbadian child was among 125 passengers who arrived at the Grantley Adams International Airport yesterday on an Air Canada...
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#BTEditorial – Cuban medical help or human trafficking smear?
Every political administration in Barbados has repeated the mantra of late Prime Minister and National Hero Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow that we will be “friends of all and satellites of none”...
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Harris remanded
Firearm and robbery charges against a 23-year-old unemployed man have landed him on remand at Dodds prison. Philip Malachi Harris, of Bartlett Tenantry, Sargeant’s Village, Christ Church will make his...
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Accused heads to Dodds
A young man named after one of international cricket’s best batsmen has found himself on remand on a number of gun and ammunition charges. Sachin Alexander Tendulkar Harewood has been remanded to Dodds...
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Car deal sours
Calston Emmanuel Sealy has pleaded guilty in the High Court to theft of $12, 645.75. The money, which belonged to Cornelius Francis, was for purchasing a vehicle that Sealy, of Odessa McClean Road, My...
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Loopholes covered, says advisor
Visitors who enter the country to live and work remotely under the Welcome Stamp Initiative will not be required to pay income tax to the Government of Barbados, according to the Prime Minister’s...
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Loan fund still providing financing assistance for small businesses
The man in charge of the fund set up almost two years ago to assist operators in the micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) sector has dismissed claims that it has been stopped. General...
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Nurses stay
Threats from the United States will not stop Barbados from using Cuban nurses to help the country fight COVID-19. While noting that Barbados has taken the stance to be “friends of all, satellites of...
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