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Transport Board to modernized, Bradshaw says
Initiatives aimed at modernizing the Transport Board will be coming soon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources, Santia Bradshaw, said. Bradshaw gave brief remarks...
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COVID-19 update: 86 new cases
Barbados recorded 86 new COVID-19 cases, 47 males and 39 females, from the 507 tests carried out on Saturday, August 27, by laboratories across the island. The cases comprised 10 persons under the age...
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PM Mottley meets Bishop of Croydon
Prime Minister Mia Mottley met with Barbadian-born Bishop of Croydon, the Rt Rev’d Dr. Rosemarie Mallett, yesterday at Ilaro Court, Two Mile Hill, St Michael. Prime Minister Mottley and Bishop Mallett...
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COVID-19 update: 63 new cases
A total of 63 people, 30 males and 33 females, were diagnosed with COVID-19 on Sunday, August 28, from the 288 tests conducted by laboratories across the island. The cases comprised eight persons under...
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ACTIF2022 ends with commitment to build commercial bridge for shared prosperity
The AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2022 (ACTIF2022) successfully concluded in Barbados, with a commitment by participants to remove the scars of the past and build a commercial bridge towards...
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CXC to release exam results on Monday
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) says the results of this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Certificate of...
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Changes in LPG prices for September 2022
Effective midnight, Sunday, September 4, the retail prices of all liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders will increase. The new price of the100-lb cylinder will be $176.33, an increase of $5.46; while...
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Liz Truss to be new UK prime minister
SOURCE- REUTERS – Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative Party on Monday, vowing to press ahead with promised tax cuts and...
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Heavy rains for Leeward Islands as Tropical Storm Earl gains strength
SOURCE: CMC: Tropical Storm Earl, which is set to become a hurricane later this week, is expected on Monday to dump up to eight inches of rain across the Leeward Islands, the United States and British...
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Long recovery ahead for youth who fell into well
Jacquan Wharton, the 20-year-old who fell into a 42-foot well last month, is on the mend. His father Wendell Harris told Barbados TODAY on Monday that while his son still had a long way to go to full...
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Seeking answers
The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is demanding that Government provide a post office in West Terrace, St James to replace the one that was closed in 2018. Last Friday, during the launch of the party’s...
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Support coming for tourism properties
New standards and regulations are coming to the tourism sector to support both large and small properties. Minister of Tourism and International Transport Senator Lisa Cummins, who made the disclosure,...
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Business leader says lawmen must follow intelligence and arrest illegal...
The spokesman for the business community has called on law enforcement authorities to go after importers of illegal guns, regardless of who and where in society they are, as she expressed the group’s...
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Youth activist cautions gang members in schools
Prominent youth activist Roger Husbands says some of the members of violent gangs are among the island’s school population. He has therefore called on law enforcement officials and the Ministry of...
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Bail plea denied
Neither his pleas nor those of his girlfriend could save Kadarian Mayers from being remanded to prison. When the 36-year-old of Platinum Heights, Christ Church, appeared in the Oistins Magistrates’...
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Man on gun and ammunition charges remanded
A young man who was allegedly caught with an illegal firearm and ammunition was today remanded to HMP Dodds. Aaron Thomas, 22, of Clapham New Road, Christ Church, was not required to plead to having...
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CXC boss urges stakeholders to end confrontation as exams move toward normalcy
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is reporting signs of a return to normalcy for students from Barbados and other Caribbean states and its chief executive officer is calling for an end to...
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#BTEditorial – Changing of the British guard
On November 30, 2021, we officially ceased our “loitering” on the British premises when we became a parliamentary republic with much pomp and fanfare. We reference the famous quote of the Father of...
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Hurricane causes much damage
By Kent Layne For the first time in history, Barbados has seen back-to-back years of Triple Crown winners following People’s Champ’s success last year. Three-year-old colt Hurricane caused lots of...
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Club’s men score the goals but women steal the show
By Morissa Lindsay It was a good day for Kickstart Club as both their women and men’s teams won their respective matches impressively, when the Barbados Football Association’s Republic Cup and Women’s...
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