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Lending a hand

One school has been making provisions to assist students whose parents will be included in the hundreds of public sector workers being sent home.Jeff Broomes, principal of the Parkinson Memorial...

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CLICO policyholders still in waiting mode

June FowlerBarbados could soon be moving one step closer to implementing a restructuring plan that would allow policyholders to recover 100 per cent of the money they invested in CLICO International...

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Prime minister in talks with business officials

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is holding a face-to-face meeting today with key representatives of the business sector on the worrying economic situation in the country.This, as Minister of Finance...

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Normal service by month end

Barbadians who have submitted claims to the National Insurance office can expect a return to normal service delivery by month-end.Acting Director of the National Insurance Office, Jennifer Hunte gave...

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NGOs pooling called for

Non-governmental organizations are being called upon to pool their resources and put all measures in place to ensure that Barbados’vulnerable community does not suffer as a result of the prevailing...

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Kellman defends NHC decision

Minister of Housing and Rural Development Denis Kellman has defended the decision ofthe National Housing Corporation to sell some lots at the going market price.Kellman offered this defence today on a...

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Fire at Frankie’s

It is one of the more popular watering holes in the south where hundreds, if not thousands of patrons, local and visitors alike, have sampled its fare.However, this came to an abrupt end last night as...

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Transport Board to be revamped

The Transport Board is to be restructured!This latest indication of the future of the statutory bodyfrom Minister of Transport and Works Michael Lashley, whois of the firm view that this critical body...

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Adieu, Mr Simmons

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart headed a list of distinguished mourners today at the Western Light Church Of The Nazarene, West Terrace, St James, to bid farewell to retired Permanent Secretary Carston...

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Families displaced after fire

Two families at Chapman Street, The City, are now in search of alternativeaccommodation after one house was destroyed by fire and another suffered waterdamage just after 11 a.m. today.Muniram Seemarine...

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Paying respects

Former Minister of Education, the late Cyril Walker, left elective politics nearly 20 years ago, but Patricia Greaves of 8th Avenue, New Orleans, The City, remembered his contribution to national...

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Lancaster ‘not a problem

The 87 houses in Lancaster, St James, PhaseOne and Two, are not occupied because successfulcandidates have not been able to obtain mortgages.However, Minister of Housing, Lands and RuralDevelopment...

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One dead, many injured in Eagle Hall accident

A 62-year-old man is reported dead and several others injured in what police are describing as a mass casualty situation at Eagle Hall, St Michael.This follows a collision involving a Transport Board...

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Such a shame!

It is an embarrassment.That is the view of former Minister of Health Jerome Walcott on the 13 three-wheeled ambulances that were recently donated to the Barbados Government by the United Arab Emirates....

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An apology from Farley urged

Nothing less than an unqualified apology!This is what Permanent Secretary in theMinistry of Health, Tennyson Springer, said he waswilling to accept from principal of the GraydonSealy Secondary school,...

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Awaiting answers

As a distraught St Michael family mourn the lossof their love one, who was snatched from them in avehicular accident on his way to work at a St Jameslocation early yesterday morning, they await...

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Still shaken after crash

A passenger involved in the accident at Eagle Hall early this morning where twovehicles collided says that if more care had been taken by the driver approaching thevehicle she was in, the accident...

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Public and private sector ‘must work together’

The response to this morning’s mass casualty at Eagle Hall, St Michael, whereone man lost his life is another example of why the public and private sectormust work together.CEO of the Queen Elizabeth...

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One dead, 32 hurt

The driver of one of the vehicles involved inthis morning’s tragic accident at Eagle Hall, StMichael, has been hospitalized, while the otherwas this evening being questioned by police.This after...

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Verdun house to target employers

Come next month onerehabilitation centre will be embarkingon an aggressive education campaignto enlighten employers acrossBarbados about drug addiction andhow they could obtain help fortheir...

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