Prime Minister blames poor leadership for failing youth
Prime Minister Mia Mottley has blamed education management and school leadership for a deficit that allows teenaged boys and girls to fall through the cracks. Mottley said: “We cannot abandon these...
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Deadly smash-up
At two this morning Stacey Seale looked into her 19-year-old son Delano Seale’s bedroom to see if he had got in from work. She did not see him there. Half-hour later, the mother of three heard a knock...
View ArticleUpdate: Road Fatality
Twenty-eight-year-old motorcyclist Chad Williams of Beckwith Street, The City died after being involved in a collision with a route taxi along Heywoods, St Peter around 7 p.m. on Tuesday. According to...
View ArticleReforms coming
In what is likely to be the biggest shift in education in two generations, the “archaic’ Common Entrance Exam, set for 11-year-olds to transition from primary to secondary school, may be replaced, with...
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Parents protest conditions at Milton Lynch
Frustrated! That was the cry of parents at the only Government all boys’ primary school. The disgruntled parents took to the streets for a silent protest over the environmental concerns that plague the...
View ArticleSchool to reopen
The Alma Parris Memorial Secondary, closed for nearly two years, is to be reopened - as soon as the Government comes into money, according to Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw. The St Peter school,...
View ArticleAbrahams miffed about $6 million overrun
Minister of Energy and Water Resources Wilfred Abrahams has expressed disgust as the $18 million construction project for a new School Meals Service building has overrun by $6 million. The minister’s...
View ArticleReturn of drums at school sports gets Broomes’ blessing
The man regarded as the driving force behind the ban on drums at the Barbados Secondary School Athletic Championship (BSSAC) now says he supports an end to it. This morning, former head of the Barbados...
View ArticleBIPA still willing to hear Govt’s plan
With over 300 deaths among CLICO policyholders in the last ten years the Barbados Investors and Policyholders Alliance (BIPA) is again pleading with Government to “do right” by its most elderly...
View ArticleUPP slams VAT on online transactions
Government’s decision to amend the Value Added Tax Act to allow for the 17.5 per cent tax to be collected for online transactions, has received a thumbs down from the United Progressive Party (UPP). In...
View ArticleCruise ship passengers on Virgin flight from Barbados quarantined at Gatwick...
SOURCE: The Telegraph: Three people have been taken to hospital after a flight reserved for passengers on a cruise ship from Barbados was quarantined when passengers and crew became unwell. All...
View Article‘Clocking out’
With central Government’s lifeline to be cut at month-end and no money left to pay the current staff, concerns are mounting at the Transport Board about the pace of negotiations with the Barbados...
View ArticleBradshaw sees Milton Lynch issues for herself
Protests by a group of upset parents at the Milton Lynch Primary School over poor environmental conditions yesterday, appeared to have prompted Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw to visit the school...
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Promise not kept
Shontell Davidson is sorry that her brother Chad Williams did not keep the promise he made to her on Tuesday evening, before riding off on a motorcycle. [caption id="attachment_291203"...
View ArticleAG not alarmed
A United States travel advisory highlighting several of this country’s crime hotspots and which has caused quite a stir on social media, has been dismissed by Attorney General Dale Marshall, as much...
View ArticleConsumers warned: Flout the ban and pay!
Barbadians who fail to comply with the ban on single-use plastics can expect to face stiff penalties when implementation takes effect on April 1st. Minister of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy,...
View ArticleDirty classrooms before layoffs
Long before layoffs in the public service began, schools across Barbados were not being properly cared for. That was revealed by Minister of Labour Colin Jordan, who today said that even when there was...
View ArticleClosing the loophole
The Revenue Authority is losing $50 million in Value Added Tax (VAT) returns because it is unable to collect taxes outside of Barbados, senators learned today. Speaking in the Senate today during...
View Article’Sales tax instead of online VAT’, urges Drakes
Describing the Value Added Tax (VAT) as “regressive”, Opposition Senator Crystal Drakes has suggested that a sales tax on online transactions would be more appropriate. And citing a difficulty in the...
View ArticleOnline gazetting to ‘speed up lawmaking’
Proposed changes to the Interpretation Act will speed up the legislative process, Minister of Information, Broadcasting and Public Affairs Senator Lucille Moe has promised, as the Government’s official...
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