Festival set up to advance entrepreneurs in Creative sector
Damien Pinder, President of the Barbados Film and Video Association and Rommel Hall, Vice President of the Barbados Film and Video Association accepting sponsorship from Annette Nias, Film Commissioner...
View ArticleRetired Queen’s College teacher launches Chemistry book
Writer and Publisher of ‘Advanced Level Chemistry. For Life: Unit 1’, Valerie Moseley, with her book at the launch held at Barbados Community College Science Auditorium on Thursday.Some of the invited...
View ArticleBittersweet farewell for Bishop Gordon
Archbishop-elect Rev. Dr. Charles Jason Gordon (centre), speaks about his elevation to a higher office in the presence of Monsignor Vincent Harcourt Blackett (right) and Glenda Medford, Chancellor of...
View ArticleMany come out to Canadian Education Fair
It was standing room only during this seminar at CUP Fest Canada Edition 2017 yesterday at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.More Barbadians are seeking to study in Canada.So says Agnes Pust, Charge...
View ArticleFatal accident
Police are conducting investigations into a road fatality which occurred some time around 5:40 am on Saturday October 21, 2017, along the Arch Hall Section of the Ronald Mapp Highway, in the area of...
View ArticleBecome mentors
Janeil Odle being presented with her scroll from Campus Registrar, Rommel Carter. She graduated with the highest GPA, gaining First Class Honours from the Faculty of Law.Dame Selma Jackman being...
View ArticleBarbadians urged to reconsider their values
Barbadians are being asked to think deeply about their current value system and consider whether the values they now hold are superior to the ones cherished dearly by their grandparents and great...
View ArticleUWI and Trade Policy graduates have role to play
JUST as it did several years ago, the University of the West Indies (UWI) has to come up with a new economic model to help Caribbean countries currently facing pressing economic issues.To this end, the...
View ArticleHIGH HOPES
Tourism Minister expecting positive winter periodBarbados’ Minister of Tourism is looking forward to “a very good winter season”.Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Richard Sealy...
View ArticleCOB unveils electronic solution to payments
THE City of Bridgetown Cooperative Credit Union Ltd (COB) is opening a world of new payment options for its customers through their mobile phones.Yesterday marked the media launch of the COB’s e-Pay...
View ArticleReading movement at All Saints’ Primary
School launches Reading WeekGregston Vaughan, Language Arts Coordinator and Head of the Literacy Committee at All Saints’ Primary School explained that Reading Week is to sensitize and motivate the...
View ArticlePlumbing World celebrates 25 years in operation
Senior Partner of Plumbing World, Dave Gerow (left) gathered with staff at the company’s Warrens showroom. Cutting the 25th anniversary cake along with Gerow is Anthony Peterkin, one of the first...
View ArticleCherry agrees to halt operations at Lower Estate Quarry
Anderson Cherry, CEO of Project Recycle Ltd., has agreed to halt operations at the facility he has set up in the Lower Estate Quarry, which has been the source of many recurrent health problems for St....
View ArticleNo further threat to water supply
Dr. John Mwansa (right), former general manager of the Barbados Water Authority (BWA), as he spoke at the second town hall meeting convened to address the controversial operation at the Lower Estate...
View ArticleTrade unionists hone their skills at Regional Youth Seminar
Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Richard Sealy, engages President of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) Youth Arm, Tricia Gill (left); Youth Co-ordinator with the BWU Youth Arm, Serena...
View ArticleEducation arm of trade unions must seek to improve workers’ skills
Principal of the Frank Walcott Labour College, Doreen Deane, at the opening of the BWU’s Regional Youth Seminar.THE education arm of trade unions, working in collaboration with government and other...
View ArticlePM calls for closer ties between Caribbean, Africa
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and author Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick, reviewing Quick’s book ‘Deeper Roots – Muslims in the Americas and the Caribbean from before Columbus to the Present’.Prime Minister...
View ArticleAbed goes back to his roots, plants twenty new trees
From left to right: Iverson Maughan, longstanding QC Security Guard, Gabriel Abed of Bitt Inc. and Barney Gibbs, Project Coordinator of the Future Centre Trust’s, ‘Future Tree Programme’.Gabriel Abed,...
View ArticlePsychiatric Hospital hosts recognition ceremony
Veteran entertainer Richard Stoute receiving his award from the Hon. John Boyce Minister of Health.David Leacock, Acting Hospital Director during his official remarks.October is the month for Mental...
View ArticleFOCUS more ON Pension funds
Kester Guy (left) of the Financial Services Commission in conversation with Lisa Wade of Eckler Ltd., yesterday at the Eckler Investment Conference, under the theme ‘Investment Policy Review for...
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