Public Health Emergency extended
THE Public Health Emergency proclamation in Barbados has been extended until August 31 2020.This was revealed late on Tuesday night by Minister of Health and Wellness (MOHW), Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic,...
View ArticleCARICOM Chair concerned about developments in Guyana
With more than 100 days passing since the people went tobthe polls in Guyana, Barbados Prime Minister and Caribbean Community (Caricom) Chair Mia Amor Mottley has called for a speedy resolution to the...
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Sagicor staying put
Ravi Rambarran, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sagicor Life Inc.Sagicor has no intention at this time of closing any of its branches or retrenching workers.That assurance came yesterday from...
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Focus on reducing childhood obesity
Joy Adamson, Chief Education Officer with the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training.By: Regina Selman Moore The Ministry of Education is heartened that the Ministry of Health and...
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UNDER PRESSURE
High water bills greatly affect dairy farmers President of the Barbados Beef and Dairy Producers Association, Annette Beckett (third from right) presented Administrative Manager of The Hub, Cheryl...
View ArticlePulling down statues will ‘fill nobody’s bellies’
Pulling down statues will not fill anyone’s belly. Instead, according to Minister of Tourism and International Transport Kerrie Symmonds, focus must be placed on empowering working class people. During...
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Children following same path as unhealthy adults
Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kenneth George.The burden of non-communicable diseases and their complications, has reminded us that we need to plan for the health of our children.Chief Medical...
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Soroptimist club lends helping hand to vulnerable women and their families
A view of some of the items which were donated.Fifty families whose financial situations were thrown into peril by the COVID-19 pandemic, received assistance from the Soroptimist International of...
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PM: Safety first
Barbados’ Prime Minister the Hon. Mia Amor Mottley addressing members of the media during yesterday’s press conference, as Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Dale Marshall (right) and...
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Double-digit fall in output for 2020 expected, says Central Bank governor
Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Cleviston Haynes.HIT hard by COVID-19, this country’s economy is expected to shrink by double digits, according to Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados,...
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Clean slate
Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic, speaking during yesterday’s media briefing.Barbados currently has no confirmed cases of COVID-19. This was the news revealed by Minister of...
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GAIA set to resume regular flights in the coming weeks
From left: Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Kerrie Symmonds; Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley; and Head of Global Markets at the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc., Petra Roach, share a...
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New directive and changes coming soon
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Dale Marshall.FROM Wednesday, July 1, 2020, there will no longer be a curfew in place on weekends.Word of this has come from Prime Minister Mia Amor...
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Plans to level playing field
Minister of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Commerce, Dwight Sutherland (right), speaking with Managing Director of Nassco Limited, Roger Hill; and Roger Moore, Sales Director at Nassco...
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Former CDEMA head honoured
Former Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Ronald Jackson.By: Regina Selman MooreFollowing seven years of unwavering and exemplary service to the region,...
View ArticleCall for credit unions to be more vigilant to public concerns
There is a call for the local credit union movement to pay greater attention to things happening on the ground and its members. These are the sentiments of social activist Hamilton Lashley as he...
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Tourism sector must recover, says ECCB governor
Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Timothy Antoine.AS countries across the region open back up, Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Timothy Antoine, expressed his...
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SMALL BUSINESSES NEED SUPPORT
Newly ratified Democratic Labour Party (DLP) candidate for St. Michael North West, Ryan Walters (second from right), along with DLP FIrst Vice President, Irene Sandiford Garner (left), and President of...
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Call for tax hike on sweet drinks
Dr.Yitades Gebre, PAHO/WHO Representative for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries.Barbados can go further in tackling non-communicable diseases by increasing the tax on sugar-sweetened...
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PAHO: Recurring COVID-19 outbreaks likely
Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organisation and WHO Regional Director for the Americas.In the absence of effective treatments or a widely available vaccine, it is expected...
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