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Ecstasy exposed
There is still no indication as to if or when police will charge two prominent businessmen and an unknown third person being questioned in connection with a $3 million drug bust aboard the luxury yacht...
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Too much secrecy at Town & Country Planning, Govt told
Secrecy, a lack of transparency and lengthy delays have been identified as some of the major hurdles in the way of developers and other stakeholders in the planning process. Kim Penfold, consultant...
View ArticleArrivals up
Visitor arrivals are up for the first six months of 2018, and the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc (BTMI) is expecting the positive trend to continue, with more flights due here and new attractions to...
View ArticleBacterial infection under control – QEH
The state-run Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) today confirmed that eight cases of the bacterial illness known as Burkholderia Cepacia Complex were diagnosed at the island’s premier health care...
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No more business as usual – manufacturers warned
A Government minister is assuring that the local manufacturing sector is by no means dead. However, concerned about the steady decline in the sector’s contribution to the economy in recent years,...
View ArticleStorm warning
A local insurance company is contending that Barbadians learned nothing from the experiences of Caribbean neighbours to the north who were devastated by hurricanes last year. Massy United Insurance...
View ArticleRC Church launches anti-violence campaign
The Roman Catholic Church has launched an anti-violence campaign which focuses on getting would-be criminals to think of their own bodies when they contemplate engaging in criminal activity. The cleric...
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Slinger and Donovan on board
Two new transport boards have been announced with community activist Adrian Donovan and journalist Timothy Slinger among the immediate standouts. Donovan, who is has been articulating the concerns of...
View ArticleOnline scam
The two-month-old Mia Mottley-led Government has fallen victim to an online scam. Confirmation of this today from Minister of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Commerce Dwight Sutherland, while...
View Article‘A gentleman and a lawyer’
Queen’s Counsel Dr Waldo Waldron Ramsay was a great orator at the Bar, an historian, a gentleman of uncompromising principles and a towering figure in Barbados’ legal profession. That was how his...
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Barbados mourns passing of its first female Cabinet Secretary
Former head of the Civil Service Avril Gollop has died. Gollop, who was also this island's first female Cabinet Secretary between 1996 and 2012, was renowned for her professionalism and dedication to...
View ArticleHilton Barbados gets new GM
Canadian Tammy Leblanc is the new general manager of the Hilton Barbados resort. Leblanc, who has more than 20 years experience working in the hospitality industry, was most recently the general...
View ArticleFour varieties of Goldfish crackers recalled
On July 23, 2018 Pepperidge Farm in the United States announced a voluntary recall of four varieties of Goldfish Crackers. This recall is being supported in Barbados by the Department of Commerce and...
View ArticleOverhaul needed
The near 60-year-old legislation that established the Barbados Fire Service (BFS) needs a makeover, according to Minister of Home Affairs Edmund Hinkson. However, while stating that a number of changes...
View ArticleTurtles project stretched by coastline builders
Developments along the coastline are creating a major headache for the Barbados Sea Turtle Project, the University of the West Indies-based programme to recover local marine turtle populations....
View ArticleWe need a national development bank – Clarke
A strong suggestion was made today that Barbados should revisit the idea of a national development bank, with a view to capitalizing on available international development financing. It came from...
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Regional trade is key to Barbados’ recovery – PM
Prime Minister Mia Mottley today underscored the importance of trade to Barbados’ economic recovery and transformation, and the need for the island to re-emerge as a regional trade hub. She made the...
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Golden Square rebirth
As a small group of Barbadians gathered in the historic Golden Square today to commemorate the Day of National Significance, Prime Minister Mia Mottley suggested it was time to say goodbye to the old...
View ArticleCriminal act
The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) administration is hinting strongly that it intends to amend the Protection of Agricultural Products and Livestock Act approved late last year, as it embarks on an...
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Final suspect
The third person held by police in Monday’s $3 million drug bust aboard the luxury yacht Ecstasy, owned by Goddard Enterprises Limited, has been identified as Walter O’Neal Prescod. [caption...
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