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BWU fully behind NUPW
The country’s two most powerful trade unions will walk hand in hand this week, as the threat of a national strike hangs over the island. The largest private sector union, the Barbados Workers Union...
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‘Inject’ yourself, PM!
With Barbados facing the likelihood of a general strike this week, Opposition Leader Mia Mottley told a Barbados Labour Party (BLP) public meeting at Providence, Christ Church last night she was in...
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Haulers surprised by tipping fee waiver
Private haulers say they were taken by “surprise” by news that the controversial tipping fee had been waived and were awaiting clarification from Minister of Environment Dr Denis Lowe. Managing...
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Help for Child Care Board
Help might soon be on its way for the short-staffed and financially strapped Child Care Board (CCB). Minister of Social Care Steve Blackett told Barbados TODAY this morning, he would soon meet with the...
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BVTB is going with simulators
The Barbados Vocational Training Board (BVTB) will soon be getting a spanking new, state-of-the-art facility. BVTB director Henderson Thompson broke the news of the joint venture –– which will be...
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Magistrate: Mediators working well
Mediators are already having a positive impact on the local judicial system, mere weeks after they have started working. Operating under the Court Annexed Mediation Pilot Project, their introduction...
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A new multi-million dollar hospice and palliative care facility is to be constructed here to provide “a pain-free, peaceful, dignified transition” for the sick and terminally ill. The 14-bed facility...
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Unemployed man ordered to pay $250
A 35-year-old unemployed man has pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of cannabis. Ramon Fabian Chase of # 54 Hillside, Gall Hill Christ Church, appeared before acting magistrate Elwood Watts today...
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Unions hit back at PM
Barbados’ two major trade unions, the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) and the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) have hit back at the Freundel Stuart administration, blaming the Government for the...
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GOODBYE ABIJAH
An emotional funeral service was held today for Abijah Ijestic Holder-Phillips, who died in a car accident on June 26 on his way home from his school graduation. Shortly after the boy’s mother, Felisha...
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Go-slow yields mixed results
Today’s go-slow by Customs and Immigration officers had contrasting effects on the island’s critical ports of entry. The National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) announced yesterday that employees of...
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Knife threat
Wayne Richard Headley, an electrical student whose address was given as Welchman Hall, St Thomas, was fined $750 in one week, with the alternative of a week in prison, after admitting that he had a...
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Victory is mine
In a dramatic last minute shift, the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) has withdrawn the vexing retirement letters sent to ten employees who have reached aged 60, and which have...
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No go!
Government’s agreement with Cahill Energy to build a waste-to-energy plant may come to naught, according to retired Chief Town Planner Leonard St Hill, who contends the proposed project has no legal...
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Hill: Spend the money on solar energy
The $700 million investment needed to get the Cahill waste-to-energy plant operational could instead be used to purchase solar energy storage facilities to supply more than half of Barbados with...
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A sorry state, says Dr Agard
The opposition spokesman on health has called for the Psychiatric Hospital to be condemned and reconstructed. However, Shadow Minister of Health Dr Maria Agard has acknowledged that the Government was...
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Growth coming
The Barbados economy grew by half of one per cent during the first half of the year, primarily due to a good performance by the key tourism industry and remains on course to achieving projected overall...
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$5,000 bail for St Michael man
A St Michael man was not required to plead to having articles with him – those articles being a ski mask and a pair of gloves – to be used in connection with robbery or theft on Monday. Ryan Andre...
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Strike back?
Police and task force officers had to be called to the headquarters of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) this evening after a top official received a suspicious envelope. The envelope,...
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UPDATE-NUPW members quarantined
Executive members of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) were late this evening being transported to the Ebola Centre as a precautionary measure, after they came into contact with a...
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