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Cummins: Govt prioritising adolescent care

Barbados has built universal health care, education and social...

Respect the cane!

Barbadians are being urged to be more vigilant and...

Youth put on lively show in Oistins

Students were front and centre at Oistins Bay Garden...

‘Early diagnosis of MS crucial’

While the Caribbean has a lower prevalence of multiple...

Family rocked by 4-year-old’s death

The family of little Xavio Trotman, who died tragically...

More being tested for prostate cancer

Sixteen years ago, a Cancer Support Services testing drive...

Many take final glimpse of Sir Garry

A steady stream of mourners made their way to the Parliament Building to bid farewell to The Right Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers whose body...

BARP set to bring abuse protocol

The Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP) is set to introduce a formal reporting protocol for elder abuse, a move intended to create a...

Estate residents say they’re being left out of $18m project

Some residents of the historic Codrington Estate in St John are feeling shut out of a multimillion-dollar reparations project they say is meant to...

Museum and NCF invite Bajans to choose 60 songs for Independence

What does Barbados sound like? That was the question posed at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Garrison, St Michael, yesterday as the museum and...

Monkey sales not illegal, says RSPCA

A weeks-old green monkey advertised for sale on Facebook for $500 in Barbados has ignited some outrage among tourists and animal welfare campaigners, but according to...

Green cars taking over

Electric and hybrid vehicles now make up about 70 per cent of all new vehicle sales in Barbados. Industry leaders say the rapid transformation has...

Continuous assessment to account for half of marks

Barbados is on the way to moving away from its decades-old Common Entrance Examination to the two-year continuous assessment model that will account for...

BUT: Public schools have resource edge

Comparisons between public and private schools based on Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE) results are unfair, says president of the Barbados Union of...

Ishmael wants food industry to help solve NCD crisis

Barbados has the size to solve its own health crisis of noncommunicable diseases, and the food industry is being called on to help make...

BUT supports schools’ closure

The Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) has given its blessing to the early closure of 13 primary schools to make way for a major...