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Longer time for Common Entrance Exam

The Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE) isn’t going anywhere for the time being. The Ministry of Education Transformation has delayed the implementation of its continuous assessment programme to determine...

Barbados under flash-flood watch

As a strong tropical wave begins to affect the island, triggering pockets of moderate to heavy showers from...

Suarez Circus left in limbo

A senior official with the Suarez Brothers Circus has described the abrupt Government ordered shutdown of their Botanical...

UPDATE: Accused granted bail

Randy Phillip Phillips was granted $3 000 bail and given two dates to return to court. Phillips, 30, of...

State pushing for forfeiture of US$24 943 seized at airport

The State wants Gregston Ricardo Orlando Sealy to forfeit every cent of the US$24 943 he was caught...

Bajan still not on job

BARBADOS HAS DECLARED it has a dispute with a key CARICOM agency and has threatened to withhold all future contributions until the matter is...

‘Right way’

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OFFICIALS are defending the way they handled the environmental problems that forced the closure of Combermere School, resulting in senior students...

Slashed tyres a shocker

A NUMBER OF staff members of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) were unpleasantly surprised yesterday when they discovered their car tyres had been punctured.Some...

Murder charge

AN UNEMPLOYED 24-year-old man appeared in the Holetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with the murder of 40-year-old Wayne Ricardo Albert.Jamaal Kemal Husbands, of Husbands,...

Workplace ‘not for the reckless’

DO NOT ALLOW the “culture of recklessness” being seen on Barbados’ roads to find its way into the workplace to jeopardise occupational safety, warns...

‘Quality time over material things’

DIRECTOR OF Parent Education for Development in Barbados (PAREDOS), Marcia Graham, is urging Barbadian parents to stop focusing so much on providing their children...