Government wins the support of the island’s creditors for debt restructuring...
The island’s main creditors have given the green light to the Government’s debt restructuring plan, Barbados TODAY has learnt. There were initial reports last week that some creditors had rejected the...
View ArticleFogging schedule October 15 to 19
The Ministry of Health and Wellness will continue its fogging programme in three parishes this week, in its efforts to rid the island of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. On Monday, October 15, the fogging...
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Community police officers returned to Crab Hill on Saturday
Law enforcers were back in St Lucy on Saturday, one days after mounting an operation in the Crab Hill area. On Friday members of the security forces carried out "a robust stop and search intervention"...
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St Kitts gets help from Barbados in fight against crime
The government of St Kitts and Nevis, under the leadership of Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Dr Timothy Harris, is cracking down on crime in the Federation as it pursues its...
View ArticleMessage to mark World Standards Day
World Standards Day is celebrated every year on October 14 in recognition of the efforts of thousands of experts worldwide who collaborate within the International Organization for Standardization...
View ArticleBarbados credit unions celebrate
Barbados Credit Union League last night celebrated 60 years of existence by awarding outstanding member coops and officers for contributing to building cooperatives. The Barbados institution has grown...
View ArticleSion Hill fire victims relocated: Hinkson
The family of eight whose Brathwaite’s Gap, Sion Hill, St James home was burned on Friday now have a new place of abode. The family has received assistance from Member of Parliament for St James North,...
View ArticleLester Vaughan School closed this week
The Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training has advised that the Lester Vaughan School, at Cane Garden, St Thomas, will remain closed this week. This is to allow for the necessary...
View ArticlePM’s Address: Barbados draws line in the sand on rampant corruption, say AG
Attorney General Dale Marshall has assured the public that the Mia Mottley-led administration is “absolutely committed” to purging the country of a “stain of corruption” that it has uncovered since...
View ArticlePM’s Address: Intervention was necessary to avert ‘humanitarian crisis’ at WUB
Government’s intervention to assist the students at Washington University of Barbados (WUB) was necessary to avert a humanitarian crisis, Prime Minister Mia Mottley said Sunday. The mainly young Indian...
View ArticlePM’s Address: Overwhelming support for debt restructuring plan
Prime Minister Mia Mottley confirmed this evening that 99 per cent of the island’s creditors have agreed to back the Government’s debt restructuring exercise. “I am happy to report that in respect to...
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PM’s address: Mottley outlines restructuring plan which will affect 1500...
Mostly temporary workers, but not more than 1,500 people across the public sector, will be laid off over the next few weeks, Prime Minister Mia Mottley disclosed in an address to the nation this...
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Police investigate the discovery of a body
Police are conducting investigations into the discovery of a badly decomposed body on top of a well along the Cummins section of the ABC Highway leading to Hinds Hill, St Michael. Lawmen said they...
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‘We want in’
With a membership accounting for two out of three Barbadians, the nation’s credit unions are demanding a seat on the Social Partnership. This was one of the requests that the Barbados Cooperative and...
View ArticleFranklyn’s damn
Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn, himself the leader of a fledgling trade union, has accused the nation’s largest unions of being “neutered” in the face of imminent public sector job cuts and...
View ArticleBajans appear to back retrenchments
As the Government’s austerity measures prepare to bite harder with confirmation that the jobs of 1500 civil servants will be on the chopping block in the coming weeks, Barbadians appear to be pinning...
View ArticleSolutions Barbados: Cuts ‘unnecessary’
If the Prime Minister had surrounded herself with visionary advisors, one of her chief critics has contended, there would be no need for the pending public sector job cuts at end of this month. The...
View ArticleAtherley: Give us more details
Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley is questioning whether Government’s much-touted economic recovery plan is reaping any real benefits as yet, and is calling for greater clarity on several...
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Central cut
It’s official: 955, mostly female, Central Government workers are to be laid off as part of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-financed plan for a leaner public service, the National Union of Public...
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Grim find
A C.O. Williams Construction road crew made the grim discovery this morning of a badly decomposed body atop a well along the Cummins section of the ABC Highway near Hinds Hill, St Michael. The workers,...
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