Student fund to get $15 million from CDB
The Student Revolving Loan Fund (SRLF) could soon get a $15 million boost from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to shore up its coffers. Barbados TODAY understands that Government and the CDB are...
View ArticleWater Ease
Less than month after its national prohibition order took effect, the state-run Barbados Water Authority (BWA) now says it intends to relax the controversial restrictions, which have been met with...
View ArticleParris must go
Outspoken senior teacher Reverend Charles Morris is totally fed up with the situation at Combermere School. While describing it as “complete chaos”, today he called on the Ministry of Education to...
View ArticleSpringer situation not good enough – Redman
The Barbados Secondary Teachers Union (BSTU) plans to seek an urgent meeting with the Ministry of Education to come up with measures to address environmental issues facing the staff and students of the...
View ArticleBigger spend
The Freundel Stuart administration intends to spend more this year that it did last year, including on wages and salaries. Government will also earn less that it spends, leaving it with a deficit. This...
View ArticleShut down the BDF, says union leader
An outspoken trade union leader is calling for the closure of the Barbados Defence Force (BDF). Head of the Unity Workers Union (UWU) Caswell Franklyn was reacting to today’s tabling of the Estimates...
View ArticleBDF suffers major blow
The Barbados Defence Force (BDF) has suffered a major blow. Barbados TODAY has been reliably informed that Commanding Officer Major Michael Stuart Jackman was relieved of his duties on Sunday, March 6,...
View ArticleDraft gender policy =to go before Cabinet
Barbadian women seem to be having a satisfactory year thus far, a senior official of the Ministry of the Social Care suggested today. Acting Permanent Secretary Janet Phillips referred to the recent...
View ArticleTwo US-based Bajans remembered
New York-based Barbadians have paid glowing tribute to two outstanding sons of the soil. Reverend James Stuart, the 97-year-old former leader of the Bedford Zion Church of the Nazarene, and Wilfred...
View ArticleBring back Development Bank – Arthur
Having closed the Barbados Development Bank (BDB) at the end of 1996 as part of restructuring of the financial sector, former Prime Minister Owen Arthur today called for the establishment of a new and...
View Article100 cheers for Chandler
Hard work and good living are the two main factors which Barbados’ latest centenarian Rupert Springer credits for his long life. At 100 years old, the still active Cave Hill, St Lucy resident...
View ArticleOver $5 million for 50th celebrations
Government has set aside over $5 million in this year’s financial estimates for its yearlong celebration of the island’s 50th anniversary of political independence, which culminates on November 30....
View ArticleBIDC ruling at month end
After a threatened national strike last year, the unsuccessful intervention of Minister of Labour Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo and a court case, the disputed retirement of workers by the state-run Barbados...
View ArticleNot again
Barbados and its Caribbean neighbours are seeking to avoid a repeat of the 2009 CLICO collapse that sent shockwaves across the region’s insurance and financial sectors. In this regard, serious...
View ArticleRecord number of earthquakes for Barbados
Barbadians may be surprised to learn that a record 375 earthquakes were recorded in this island’s seismic zone last year. However, this was revealed today by leading seismologist Dr Joan Latchman of...
View ArticleBreakdown in BWA talks
Negotiations between the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) and the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) have seemingly gone from “well” to worse. The BWU’s objection to a decision by BWA’s management not to...
View ArticleDig deeper!
Opposition Senator Wilfred Abrahams today called for a deeper investigation into CLICO International Life and its sister insurance company British American Insurance (Barbados) Limited, with a view to...
View ArticleNew $5 million hospice plan
Barbados is getting its first stand-alone hospice and palliative care facility to cater for terminally ill persons. The health care project, estimated to cost over $5 million, will be built on the...
View ArticleBailout could not have been avoided
Government’s initiative to support the beleaguered policyholders of British American Insurance Company will spike the island’s already high public debt, but failure to act would have resulted in a...
View ArticleSenator: Workers should ride bikes to work
Opposition Senator Wilfred Abrahams wants bicycle racks placed in Bridgetown car parks to encourage City employees to ride to work as a means of alleviating parking challenges and promoting better...
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