UWI: All are welcome
There will be no tolerance of abuse towards any studentBy: Jenique Belgrave The doors of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies are open to any student regardless of their sexual...
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BUT’s turn to tour schools next week
Carla Phillips (centre) Customer Service Representative with the Transport Board, sharing information about the bus service with Beverley Payne and and her son, Devon Inniss while Public Relations...
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MCTV, Co-operators Insurance launch local business promotion
Cheryl Forde, Marketing & Human Resources Manager of Co-Operators General Insurance Company Ltd, Nicole Collins, MCTV Marketing Officer at the media launch of the MCTV & Co-Operators General...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs need to do more research
Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Cave Hill School of Business (CHSB), Dr. Jeannine Comma, recently observed that a number of people become entrepreneurs, whilst not adequately prepared....
View ArticleHolas encourages students to shape region's future
At a time when the region needs more investment in innovation and knowledge creation, we have seen governments within the regional landscape retreat from this activity in the face of declining revenues...
View ArticleChurch of the Nazarene’s contribution to Barbados lauded
THE Church of the Nazarene has made an indelible contribution to Barbados. So says Minister of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment and Community Development, Steven Blackett, while delivering...
View ArticleComissiong: Why no action taken as yet?
SIX years after the firebomb attack on the Campus Trendz store which claimed the lives of six young ladies, the question is still being asked by individuals from various cross-sections of society as...
View ArticleCall for more volunteers
District Emergency Organisations (DEO) across the island are in need of volunteers. Pointing out that the various outfits are involved in several programmes and projects in their respective...
View ArticleMedia called on to do more
Co-ordinator of the September 3rd Foundation and Attorney-at-Law, David Comissiong, is calling on media houses in Barbados to pay close attention to how they cover events. Speaking at a press...
View ArticleNew petroleum prices
Consumers will now pay less for gasoline, diesel and kerosene, and more for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). From midnight, Sunday, September 4, the retail price of gasoline moved from Bds$2.85 per...
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Get tough on gun laws
Senator Rev. Dr. David Durant, Founder and Senior Pastor of Restoration Ministries International, addressing the 36th Anniversary Church Service of the NAB. From left: Chairman of the Child Care Board...
View ArticleMore work on new River Terminal soon
IF all goes well, construction on the second phase of the new River Terminal should start in a few months’ time. That’s the word from Minister of Transport and Works, Michael Lashley. Providing an...
View ArticleNHC not involved in Lancaster sale
By: Jenique Belgrave The sale of land at Lancaster to Chefette had nothing to do with the National Housing Corporation (NHC). Speaking to The Barbados Advocate yesterday, Minister of Housing, Lands...
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David Thompson Classic to get off the ground this month
Minister of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment and Community Development, Steve Blackett and his Permanent Secretary, Janet Phillips, drawing names to allocate the 30 teams in their zones for the...
View ArticleSenator Durant: ‘I was shocked’ at article
Totally out of order! This is how Chairman of the National Assistance Board (NAB), Senator Rev. Dr David Durant described the August 21st article “Durant: Pay cash for babies”, published in another...
View ArticleMP concerned about violent acts
A Barbados Labour Party (BLP) Member of Parliament has raised concern about the “senseless slaughter’ that is taking place in this country. Speaking on Sunday evening during his constituency branch...
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Barbados taking steps to become a Commercial Arbitration Centre
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Maxine McClean. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Maxine McClean, recently revealed that Barbados has made...
View ArticleSymmonds: Society suffering under Gov’t
An Opposition Member of Parliament says the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Government has not lived up to its goal to build a society. St. James Central Member of Parliament, Kerrie Symmonds raised...
View ArticleGIS conference begins this week
The Eighth Annual Caribbean Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Conference gets officially underway today at the Hilton Barbados. The week-long conference will see GIS professionals joining...
View ArticleAG horrified by murder captured on video
HORRIFIED. That’s how Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite, described his reaction to surveillance video making its rounds on social media of the callous shooting of taxi driver Ricardo Bryan, who...
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