Tough competition
As digital currency use continues to expand, concerns are being raised about the viability of commercial banks. The sobering thought was expressed during a panel discussion hosted by Managing Director...
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Oistins shock as crewman dies
Fisherfolk at the Berinda Cox Market in Oistins were thrown into a state of shock this morning with the discovery of the lifeless body of a man floating in the sea. Just after 10 a.m., members of the...
View ArticleBus fare increase adding to labour pains
Workers in Barbados cannot continue to bear the brunt of Government’s restructuring programme says president of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations (CTUSAB) Edwin O’Neale. And he has...
View ArticleTeachers to face polls
Safety, environmental hazards and dwindling membership have emerged as the major issues among a trio of presidential candidates, as the country’s largest teachers’ trade union prepares to elect a new...
View ArticleGovt to build nation’s quality standards system – Sutherland
Admitting that Barbados’ national quality infrastructure is not yet fully developed, the Minister of Commerce has pledged urgent attention to the system by which international standards are measured...
View ArticleWorrell blasts Minister on plastics ban
A former Democratic Labor Party (DLP) senator wants Minister of Maritime Affairs Kirk Humphrey to be muzzled by the Prime Minister over his response to food vendors’ complaints over the plastics ban....
View ArticleSmooth start
On the eve of elections for a new executive of the Barbados Union of Teachers, president Sean Spencer is predicting a smooth start to the Trinity school term next week, despite what he has described as...
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Unsightly pile-up
Former Democratic Labour Party candidate for St Michael South East in the 2018 General Elections Rodney Grant is charging that the area of Golden Rock, Pine, St Michael has been neglected by...
View ArticleSupport for tighter scrutiny on charities
Two charities have backed Government’s decision to closely scrutinise the activities of aid organisations, arguing that it could help to weed out fraudulent and nefarious players masquerading as...
View Article‘Route master’
The Transport Board is in the early stages of developing a new and improved “master plan” for its future operations, which could see Government’s role reduced to a mere regulator of a privately-owned,...
View ArticleGovt may need to take additional measures to achieve financial goals
A top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official is warning that Barbados’ ambitious target of a fiscal surplus of six per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of the current financial year...
View ArticleDrugs go up in smoke
A million-dollar stash of cocaine and cannabis seized last year was incinerated today by police. Just over 238 kilogrammes of drugs with a street value of $1,124, 600.00 was destroyed. Police...
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NCC threat
Does public space in Barbados belong to a select few? This is the question that entrepreneur Shawn Morris needs answered as his three-week-old beach chair rental business at Bathsheba, St Joseph, is...
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Accident at Rices, St Philip
Emergency personnel are on the scene of an accident at Rices, St Philip. (more details as they come to hand.) The post Accident at Rices, St Philip appeared first on Barbados Today.
View ArticleMissing: Bentley McCarthy
Police are seeking the public’s assistance to locate a missing man. He is 59-year-old Bentley McCarthy of Nightingale Drive, Parish Land, St Philip. His sister Lyris Taitt, reported him missing on...
View ArticleBest bet to settle external debt
The institution providing funding for the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) programme is suggesting that lower interest rates and longer payment period may indeed be the best...
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Pull principal!
A massive investigation has been launched at the Government Industrial School (GIS) in response to a number of “pressing issues”, the most recent of them the recent escape of two teenage girls from the...
View ArticleReducing recidivism
As concern mounts among authorities and the wider society over the shocking level of gun crime here, a local social services body has received the green light to introduce a major rehabilitative...
View ArticleIMF’s ‘grave concern’ over Venezuelan crisis
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund has expressed “grave concern” about the humanitarian and economic crisis facing Venezuela, declaring that it was generally not welcomed it stands ready to...
View ArticlePork farming on rise, under threat, says BAS
Despite rising pork production, president of the Barbados Agriculture Society Woodville Alleyne-Jones has claimed that pig farming is on the verge of collapsing under the hefty weight of water and tax...
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