Cabinet bids warm Farewell to Argentine Ambassador
From left: Minister of Culture in the Prime Minister’s Office, John King; Minister of Environment and National Beautification, Adrian Forde and Mac Fingall share a light moment with Ambassador Gustavo...
View ArticleSagicor Life expands plan to include more frontline heroes
These fire officers sprang into action to demonstrate how an automated external defibrillator would work if responding to an emergency.OVER the last several months, the island’s medical and other...
View ArticleExpect cloudy week ahead
Vehicles in the Pine make their way through rising waters.Barbadians can expect the rest of the week to be cloudy as the island is expected to be affected by a tropical wave. This came from Andrew...
View ArticleCOVID-19 pandemic highlights importance of statistics
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into full view the value and importance of statistics. Secretary-General of the...
View ArticleMoore says hers is a life of service
“St. George North deserves more.”That’s what Toni Moore, the Barbados Labour Party’s candidate for the St. George North by-election, told people who gathered at Sheffield Pasture, Lower Estate on...
View ArticleTime to for the region to pivot
Prime Minister Mia Amor MottleyCOVID-19 and its impact on our tourism dependent economies means the time is now for regional governments to implement disruptive and forward thinking programme concepts...
View ArticleFAO and MAFS give helping hand
Director of the Barbados Alliance to End Homelessness, Kemar Saffrey (third left) and Leader of Street Lamp Ministries Jerome Gittens (second left) look over the produce donated by the Ministry of...
View ArticleFisherfolk no longer neglected
Fishermen and others in the fishing industry are no longer neglected, thanks to the work of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy.Minister of Environment and National Beautification,...
View ArticleResolution Needed
St. George residents call for a swifter response to environmental woesSpokesperson Alan Harvey (second from right) and other affected residents discuss the way forward, whilst on the outskirts of the...
View ArticleREADY TO WORK
Senator Julian Hunte as he signed the Oath of Office yesterday morning. Looking on are, left, Governor General Dame Sandra Mason and centre, the Governor General’s Personal Secretary, Sandra...
View ArticleRED Foundation plans to assist children more
From left, West Indies cricketer, Tino Best, East Point Consultancy’s Atoya Hinds, Assistant to Parliamentary Representative of Christ Church South, Ralph Thorne, Cherise Harding, Principal of Milton...
View ArticleMoore pays fees
BLP Candidate for St. George North, Toni Moore, shows off her receipt as Outgoing MP, Gline Clarke, looks on. A confident Toni Moore exited the National Housing Corporation in Country Road yesterday...
View ArticleDistillery donates tent to St. Stephen’s Primary
Employee of WIRD and parent of St. Stephen’s Primary, Melissa Browne presenting the cheque to Principal, Dr. Colin Cumberbatch.The young students of St. Stephen’s Primary School now have additional...
View ArticleAlleyne: Reifer can make a difference
Billboard erected for Reifer: The Barbados Advocate was able to capture workers erecting a billboard for Floyd Reifer, Democratic Labour Party candidate in the upcoming St.George North by-election, on...
View ArticleAgricultural push in schools
Owen Arthur Agrokids Initiative launchedWidow of the late Prime Minister, Professor The Rt. Hon. Owen S. Arthur, Mrs. Julie Arthur, centre, had the honour of cutting the ribbon at the greenhouse of the...
View ArticleGrow Barbados Challenge a success
The youngest participant in the 2020 Grow Barbados Challenge, Jaina Sylvester, who grew a number of crops, with Adrian Reid, Co-Founder of Victory Gardens Caribbean.The eight-week 2020 Grow Barbados...
View ArticleMinister Forde: Cut and contrive
Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs Cynthia Forde, Deputy Permanent Secretary Jacqui WIltshire, and Director of the Bureau of Gender Affairs Patricia Boyce as they took a look at some of...
View ArticleChurches will not be silent!
Family-Faith-Freedom, Barbados, in association with a number of Christian churches staged a march to protest the introduction of same-sex civil unions through Holetown, yesterday.Government’s intention...
View ArticleAspiring female parliamentarians unite
H.E. Marie Legault, High Commissioner of Canada to Barbados had a candid talk with members of Pink Parliament Barbados, yesterday.The High Commission of Canada welcomed members of Pink Parliament...
View ArticleUWI Vice-Chancellor: US$600m fund needed for universities
Vice-Chancellor of The UWI, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles.As part of the emergency investment in the Caribbean region, is a proposal by the Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI),...
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