BAMC looking for cotton harvesters
The Barbados Agricultural Management Company Limited (BAMC) is seeking persons to harvest West Indian Sea Island Cotton next month. The fields to be harvested during the month of December are: Constant...
View Article‘This is a special occasion’: GG celebrates with newest centenarian
Barbados’ newest centenarian Florence Matilda Mason hit the big 100 recently and was celebrated at her Bayfield, St Philip home on Saturday. Surrounded by family and friends, Mason was visited by the...
View ArticleChanges in petroleum prices effective midnight Sunday
Effective midnight Sunday, November 3, the retail price of gasoline will decrease, while the prices of diesel and kerosene will increase. Gasoline will be adjusted from $3.65 per litre to $3.59 per...
View ArticleWin-A-Hog Christmas Competition launched
Local pig farmers are being assured they will be protected from the importation of pork. During the launch of Win-A-Hog Christmas Competition at the Barbados Pig Farmers Co-Operative Society in St...
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ICAB kicks off Accountants’ Week with church service
Accountants in Barbados, law enforcement officers, students and teachers have been encouraged to remember that their gifts were given by the creator and they should not abuse their power. During a...
View ArticleFenty’s assault charges dismissed
Assault charges against Rorrey Ronald Fenty, the brother of international superstar Rihanna, have been dismissed. The 29-year-old entrepreneur, of Westland Heights, St James was accused of unlawfully...
View ArticlePolice probe death of American visitor
Police are investigating the death of an American visitor at Brownes Beach, Bay Street, St Michael. According to police, the 65-year-old man, who arrived here onboard the cruise ship, Celebrity...
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Deandra wins Teen Talent
The distinct 28 points margin that separated Richard Stoute Teen Talent winner Deandrea Harris from her nearest rival Daianna Price did not come as a surprise to the crowd at Lloyd Erskine Sandiford...
View Article‘Got energy?’
With international investors said to be clamouring to get into renewable energy here, attracted to favourable rates of return, Minister of Energy Wilfred Abrahams has appealed to local investors to get...
View ArticleStakeholder participation vital to success of CSME
A more active participation from the private sector and civil society is key to the full implementation of the CARICOM (Caribbean Community) Single Market and Economy (CSME). Barbados’ Ambassador to...
View ArticleGlobal Entrepreneurship Week launches with ‘call for change’
The Minister for Entrepreneurship has stepped up his call for a change in the way Barbadians view entrepreneurship, as the island prepares to join the world in observing a week dedicated to enterprise....
View ArticlePayment block
Operations at the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reportedly came to a halt on Monday afternoon as workers demanded answers about an unpaid sum of money due to them at the end of October....
View ArticleRegional group to challenge local buggery laws
Leaders of Barbados’ legislature, judiciary and churches have been warned to brace for stiff challenges aimed at removing “draconian” and “colonial” laws, which criminalise buggery and indecency. A...
View Article‘Let’s meet’
If the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) is to be successful some elements of it need to be restructured, Prime Minister Mia Mottley declared tonight. And one of the things she wants to see...
View Article‘Eight out of ten’ repaying Trust Loans – Minister
Eight out of ten borrowers from the Trust Loan, the Government’s signature small business lending programme, are keeping up their payments on their startup business loans amounting to just over $12...
View Article‘Doomed’
The Prime Minister tonight insisted that the regional airline jointly owned by Barbados and three other Caribbean governments is “doomed” under its current ownership, declaring her fellow leaders are...
View ArticleQEH under microscope
The Barbados Nurses’ Association (BNA) President Joannah Waterman says the local nursing community is “disturbed” by recent fiery social media discussion on the delivery of nursing services at the...
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A $129,000 mistake
The $128,574.54 in double billings to the Transport Board by Trans Tech Inc, flagged in the last Auditor General’s report, may have been likely due to clerical errors. This was the sworn testimony...
View ArticleMurder accused to appear in court
Murder accused Raheem Travonte Barnett, 23, of Lot 5, Regency Park, Christ Church is expected to appear at the Oistins Magistrate Court this morning. Barnett is accused of taking the life of O’Neill...
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Update: Murder accused remanded to HMP Dodds
Murder accused Raheem Travonte Barnett, 23, of Lot 5, Regency Park, Christ Church was remanded to HMP Dodds until December 3. He appeared before Magistrate Elwood Watts at the Oistins Magistrate...
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