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BHTA reports growth in major tourism markets

Barbados has maintained a firm position as one of the Caribbean’s top destinations despite the challenges of a highly competitive and rapidly changing global...

Oba out, board gets youthful injection

It is over for Oba! Barbados’ sole Olympic medallist Obadele Thompson was ousted as a Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) board director after Wednesday’s Annual...

TD Marin: Barbados has talent

Newly-appointed Barbados Football Association (BFA) technical director Philip Marin believes Barbados has the talent to make an impression at next month’s FIFA Under-15 World Cup...

Arrest made over the death of black woman found hanged from tree in Mississippi

Police in the US state of Mississippi have arrested a man in connection with the death of a black woman found hanged from a...
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Asha Jones: Breaking new ground in dementia care

by Cheryl Harewood Asha Jones’ professional journey has taken her across tourism, sales and marketing, gerontology and therapeutic recreation; fields that today come together in...

One prison bus ‘is ridiculous’

Defence attorney Verla De Peiza has described the situation of having one bus transporting prisoners around the island as “a ridiculous state of affairs”. Her...

Bees spent nearly three times as much as Dems in 2026 poll

The ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) spent almost three times more than its main rival, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), in its bid to...

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Oba out, board gets youthful injection

It is over for Oba! Barbados’ sole Olympic medallist Obadele Thompson was ousted as a Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) board director after Wednesday’s Annual...

TD Marin: Barbados has talent

BOA pushing by-laws update

BHTA reports growth in major tourism markets

Barbados has maintained a firm position as one of the Caribbean’s top destinations despite the challenges of a highly competitive and rapidly changing global...

Price hike fears

More support needed for breastfeeding mothers

The following is a submission by Aaliyah Lara, a member of Healthy Caribbean Youth from Trinidad and Tobago and a medical student at the...
 

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Amazon prepares for major layoffs among office workers, reports say

Amazon is planning major job cuts among its corporate workers as soon as this week, multiple media outlets have reported. The online retail giant plans...

Private sector urged to support farmers

Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS), James Paul, has called for greater collaboration between private sector buyers and local producers to...

‘Year of wins’ for Co-op League

The Barbados Cooperative and Credit Union League is celebrating two major breakthroughs. During its annual general meeting recently at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Two...

Jamaica braces for passage of Hurricane Melissa

Jamaica is bracing for the passage of Hurricane Melissa on Tuesday as the category 5 storm is expected to move across southeastern Cuba Wednesday...

Barbados ‘well positioned to lead regional integration’

Government Senator Roshanna Trim has thrown her full support behind the Caribbean Community (Free Movement of Nationals) Bill, 2025, describing it as a vital step...

Call to prioritise national issues

While Barbados can benefit from more regional unity to survive in an increasingly insular world, it must urgently fix the increasingly visible societal cracks,...

Walters reacts to rodent issue at Deacons Primary School

The closure of the Deacons Primary School this morning, due to allegation of rat droppings being found on the compound, is deeply troubling and...

Trade uncertainty threatens economy

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has slightly lowered its 2025 growth forecast for Barbados from three per cent to 2.7 per cent, is...

Project Amai helping 25 teenage mothers

There has been a notable increase in the number of young mothers applying for the second cohort of Project Amai. During a media launch recently...

Deacons Primary School closed due to environmental issues

Reports are that the Deacons Primary School is closed due to environmental issues. Parents were called to collect their children and one said it was...