Kensington “albatross”
A royal mess!This is how Minister of Finance Chris Sinckle last night described the lease arrangement left behind by the previous Owen Arthur administration for the Mecca of cricket in the region – the...
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Kensington Oval – the home of cricket in Barbados is a proverbial albatross around the necks of Government, and Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler says the days of that being the case are numbered.“I...
View ArticlePayment panic
Barbados and the world’s first and oldest rum distillery has closed its doors, workers are left out of pocket, and a rumoured buyout deal to salvage the 346-year-old company might have fallen...
View ArticleRed tape holding back Myrie’s money
It’s bureaucracy!That is what Minister of Home Affairs Adriel Brathwaite told Barbados TODAY was holding up the payment to Jamaican Shanique Myrie, almost five months after the Caribbean Court of...
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What’s the word, Estwick?
Opposition MP Edmund Hinkson believes that Minister of Agriculture Dr David Estwick still owes the country an explanation, after his recent public show of dissent over government’s economic...
View Article$8m Disaster Emergency Facility
Construction of an $8 million disaster emergency facility that will serve Barbados and the rest of the region, got off the ground this morning at Lears in St George.The headquarters of the...
View ArticleDrug find off Needham’s Point
Three Barbadian men who were found on a boat with 607 pounds of cannabis off Needham’s Point early this morning are being questioned by police.The trio was arrested when members of the Drug Squad, the...
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‘Wrong’ emphasis
“Place more emphasis on the state of the van stand and less on uniforms.”This was the view of many owners and operators of public service vehicles (PSVs) to Government, as news circulated that a strict...
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New book from LIAT chairman
Jean HolderLIAT’s chairman is about to release his third book.Jean Holder’s latest publication ‘Caribbean Tourism’, published by UWI Press, is a seminal look at the history and many challenges facing...
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2,000 homes would have benefited, says Symmonds
Two thousand families and approximately 8,000 persons stood to benefit from the upgrading of homes in The City and Allen View, St Thomas, under the Inter-American Development Bank Loan of $60...
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Govt hoping to maximize St Michael land use
Government hopes to maximize the use of land in the St Michael area by constructing apartments.Minister of Housing and Lands, Denis Kellman, expressed Government’s policy decision on housing in urban...
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‘Put more land into farming’
Too much land is being left fallow while the island could be producing more of the food residents consume.Jean Lowry, the Inter-American Institute for Coorporation on Agriculture’s (IICA)...
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Cowitch mess
A St James family have become prisoners in their own home as a result of a cowitch.On a recent visit to Links Road in Lower Carlton, Dale Straughn told Barbados TODAY her family was sick, tired and...
View ArticleAwaiting Stuart
“I prefer not to get involved in any discussion at this time on any response from Prime Minister Freundel Stuart as it relates to my alternative suggestions to addressing the country’s fiscal...
View ArticleHearing on Nation ‘sex case’ on pause
The start of hearing in the Nation Publishing Company’s “sex case”, has been put on hold for another four months.When publisher Vivian-Anne Gittens, editor-in-chief Roy Morris and news editor Sanka...
View ArticleReduced Govt purse
The Freundel Stuart administration will be taking the country into the new financial year, beginning April 1, with a smaller balance of payments deficit of $1.4 billion.The 2014 to 2015 Estimates Of...
View ArticleMount Gay deal not dead
A buyout of Mount Gay Refinery is still possible, could happen within two weeks, and the severed workers would be re-employed.That’s the word from chairman Bryan Wellington, who told Barbados TODAY...
View ArticleThe disabled yet at risk
By Bonita PhillipsI am often pleasantly surprised when passers-by rush to my assistance because they think that I will either be killed by oncoming traffic, or that I’m simply putting my life at risk....
View ArticleTrio charged with drug bust
Police have charged three men in connection with Monday’s seizure of a 24-foot boat and its cargo of 607 lbs of cannabis off Needham’s Point, St. Michael.They are: Winston Oneal Jones, 41, of Thornbury...
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No escape route
There may be no legal mechanisms to force Barbados to pay Shanique Myrie, but Government would not use that as an escape route, says Prime Minister Freundel Stuart.Shanique MyrieHe has committed to...
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