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Growth incentives
Jeremy Stephen says country needs to take steps to increase population By Jenique Belgrave An economist has suggested that the Government should offer incentives to Barbadians to have more children as...
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‘Don’t hide’
Law enforcement agencies scolded for not disclosing illegal activity at ports By Sheria Brathwaite Director of the Anti-Corruption and Anti-Terrorism Agency and former Commissioner of Police Darwin...
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Sweet money coming in for 2023 sugar crop
By Emmanuel Joseph Barbados is expected to rake in some $6.8 million in revenue from packaged sugar exports to the United States and Trinidad this year, even as the island moves to increase its quotas...
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Frederick Smith Secondary gets extra security guard
The Frederick Smith Secondary School now has an additional security guard following the sexual assault of a female student there earlier this month. President of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT)...
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Employers pay out $1.2 million for unfair dismissals
Employees in Barbados were awarded more than $1.2 million in compensation for unfair dismissals by their bosses in cases adjudicated by the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) over a six-year period. That...
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Police probe unnatural death
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the drowning of a 65-year-old St Peter man this morning. They said the body of Barrington Hinds, of Corbin’s Road, Ashton Hall, was discovered...
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Police investigate unnatural death of St James woman
Officers at the Holetown Police Station are carrying out investigations into the unnatural death of a 54-year-old woman who was found hanging at her home this morning. Police said they responded to...
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Paying up
Bajans coming forward to settle land tax, NIS arrears By Marlon Madden There has been a noticeable increase in the number of people coming forward to pay their portion of the more than $240 million in...
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#BTEditorial – To KC or not to be? Discard monarchical titles. All of them.
When Barbados became a republic on November 30, 2021, it severed the last vestiges of direct ties with the British monarchy. This was an historic landmark; a clear sign of the completion of the...
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CARICOM break
Barbadians to mark 50th anniversary of grouping with July 31 holiday By Jenique Belgrave Barbados will have a one-off public holiday as it joins the rest of the region in celebrating the 50th...
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Police investigate Thursday night shooting in Christ Church
A 68-year-old man is nursing gunshot injuries after he was attacked by an assailant around 7:45 on Thursday night. According to the police, the victim was eating at his home at Hillside Road, Gall...
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BWA to get expert help from the Netherlands
By Anesta Henry The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) is set to receive help from water resource management experts in the Netherlands as the Government seeks to maximise access to the scarce commodity....
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Not enough
Call for more counsellors in schools By Jenique Belgrave A plea is being made for more people to be assigned to schools to help students cope with mental health issues. President of the Barbados...
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No gender fluidity agenda in schools, PM assures
Prime Minister Mia Mottley has made it explicitly clear that there will be no discussions on gender fluidity in Barbadian schools under her watch. “There is no plan, there has never been any plan, and...
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Group to stage another protest rally
The Watch Out My Children organisation will be holding another education rally against transgender agenda setting and certain aspects of the proposed Child Rights Protection Bill and School Nutrition...
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Black Belly Sheep project progressing well, says Agriculture Minister
The initiative under which Barbados has agreed to export 1 000 Black Belly Sheep to Guyana for rearing and re-export back here is making good progress. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Indar...
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Former colleague remembers Sir Lloyd as one who always stood out
A local historian who taught alongside the late Prime Minister Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford remembers him as a scholar with a vision who would be great. Trevor Marshall, who taught at the Barbados...
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Competition winners announced in primary schools competition
Charles F. Broome Memorial Primary School has won the Barbados Police Service’s Clean Yuh House Literacy Competition. That school came out tops of 11 schools in St Michael with Abigail D. Murray’s...
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GOLDEN GIRL
Chelsea Tuach made herself and her country proud when she swept aside the competition to take gold in the women’s shortboard surfing event at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games on...
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More to come
CMO cautions Bajans to expect additional COVID-19 outbreaks By Emmanuel Joseph The island’s Chief Medical Officer has put Barbadians on guard to expect more COVID-19 outbreaks but is assuring there...
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