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Air space
Just as Barbados added more taxes to airline tickets, Caribbean governments are being told lower taxes and a single airspace would “free up the Caribbean skies” and encourage more intra-regional...
View ArticlePolice investigate suspected drowning
Police are on the scene of a suspected drowning at Fitts Village, St James. The victim, said to be about 70 years old, is a Barbadian vacationing from Mount Vernon in New York. Lawmen at the scene...
View ArticleA major breakthrough
A heavy-duty vacuum cleaner on wheels appears to have made a major breakthrough in unblocking the troubled sewer line on the South Coast. One of two cutting-edge, heavy-duty, computerized machines...
View ArticleSt Lucian minister defends tourism taxes
Taxes on the tourism industry in Barbados and other Caribbean destinations should not be seen as a bad thing, says St Lucia’s minister of tourism Dominic Fedee. Responding to questions during the State...
View Article‘More long stay visitors next year’ – CTO
Long-stay tourist arrivals to the Caribbean are expected to decline slightly by year-end before rising next year, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO). After mixed results for the...
View ArticleFix sewage, other tourism obstacles’
As Government races against time to fix remaining south coast sewage problems, the region’s top tourism official is urging the authorities to “do whatever is humanly possible” to get the job done....
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SUGAR LOW
The Government’s new policy to give school children healthier food choices has met stiff resistance from vendors who sell in and around the nation’s schools. They are adamant that implementation of...
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Tragic swim
A 70-year-old Barbadian who resides in New York went for his usual swim this morning not knowing that it would be his last. When Barbados TODAY arrived on the Fitts Village Beach, St James, this...
View ArticleMinister: Trust loan fund for small business
The Government is expected to offer loans for small businesses start-ups in the next four weeks, Minister of Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Commerce Dwight Sutherland said today. The Minister...
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IDB eyes Barbados for $100 million ‘first-ever’ loan
Barbados is to be the first country in the Americas to benefit from the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) newest lending facility for nations in economic crisis, the bank’s Barbados...
View ArticleApp for Prime Minister to follow SOE cash
The Prime Minister can now monitor every dollar that is received and spent every day by state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and there’s an app for that. She has a prototype mobile phone application written...
View ArticleRoad fixes coming, says Duguid
Motorists can soon look forward to smoother roads as a major road enhancement project commences within weeks, Minister of Transport, Works and Maintenance Dr William Duguid has announced. A $50-million...
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‘Fraud U.’
It was in the waning months of the Freundel Stuart administration, three months before a general election, that Minister of Education Ronald Jones boasted that the island was making great strides as a...
View ArticleBarbados ‘to relax exchange controls’
In an historic move, decades-old foreign exchange controls are to be dismantled in a bid to bring in billions of dollars in new foreign exchange, one of the government’s top economic advisors revealed...
View ArticleToday’s weather
A tropical wave will be affecting the island, the Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) has said. As such today’s forecast will be, fair to partly cloudy and breezy at times with a few brief isolated...
View ArticleUniversity head assisting police with investigations
The chief executive officer of Washington University of Barbados, Gopi Venkat Rao, is currently in custody assisting the Criminal Investigations Department with a probe, the Royal Barbados Police Force...
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A fond farewell for former diplomat Evelyn Greaves
Former Cabinet Minister, noted trade unionist and diplomat Evelyn Greaves received a fond farewell at the St Lucy Parish Church this morning. Among the hundreds who attended the official funeral were,...
View ArticleToday’s weather
The Barbados Meteorological Services says a tropical wave is affecting the island. Today will be partly cloudy to cloudy with some scattered showers and possible isolated thunderstorms. The post...
View ArticleFire destroys house at Belleville, St Michael
Police are continuing investigations into fire, which destroyed a house at #23 George Street, Belleville, St Michael around 2:15 a.m. Lawmen said the wood and wall property appeared to be unoccupied. A...
View ArticleFound: Kyasha Wilson
Police report that missing girl Kyasha Wilson, 15, of Road View, St Peter has been traced at White Park Road, St Michael by personnel of Central Police Station. The post Found: Kyasha Wilson appeared...
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