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Celebrating 70 Years of supporting Barbadian businesses

For 70 years, the Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC) has been helping to shape how we work in Barbados. Most of us know the BEC for...

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...

Jordan wants more mentorship programmes

Minister of Labour, Social Security and the Third Sector Colin Jordan is calling for serious mentorship programmes for Barbadian young men as males face...

More than 250,000 flee wildfires in France and Spain

Firefighters are struggling to contain wildfires in south-west France as strong winds push flames towards the city of Bordeaux, with one official saying they...
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Research must drive better health care

Medical research and practical medicine must meld seamlessly to the benefit of the public. This was the consensus during the opening ceremony of the 25th...

Man to pay $15 000 for home-made gun

All of Clive Christopher Hutson’s “creativity” will be destroyed and he now owes the No 5A Supreme Court a further $10 000 after he...

Jordan wants more mentorship programmes

Minister of Labour, Social Security and the Third Sector Colin Jordan is calling for serious mentorship programmes for Barbadian young men as males face...

WI out to honour Sir Garry against Pakistan

West Indies and Pakistan meet in Tarouba today for the start of a two Test series and the latest chapter in one of Test...

Celebrating 70 Years of supporting Barbadian businesses

For 70 years, the Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC) has been helping to shape how we work in Barbados. Most of us know the BEC for...

AM Best upgrades Sagicor

Fees fuel bank profits

50 years championing a cause

For 50 years, the Barbados Council for the Disabled (BCD) has been at the forefront of advocating for a more inclusive and accessible Barbados,...
 

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UPDATE: Fatal accident at Lucas Street

A male driver succumbed to injuries at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) after a collision with a concrete structure today at Lucas Street, St...

Reports of a fatal crash in St Philip

A male driver succumbed to injuries at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) after a collision with a concrete structure today at Lucas Street, St...

Board meetings ‘at risk’

Corporate Boards and other bodies are facing the growing threat of their confidential meetings being leaked, leaving directors and their organisations increasingly exposed to...

Officials battling bush fires in Christ Church

The Barbados Fire Service is at this time battling a number of fires in Christ Church, but none are structural. This bush fire, which...

Citizenship policy being modernised

Government is forging ahead with plans to modernise its immigration and citizenship policy, in response to issues associated with a declining population and the...

Bajan film making noise

Cinephiles in Barbados, the diaspora and across the globe who love horror flicks have a new one, 100 per cent homegrown, to add to...

Voting underway in Antigua

ST. JOHN’S - Voters in this Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country are going to an estimated 190 polling stations on Thursday to cast ballots in...

Tributes flow for Professor Juliet Daniel

By Tony Best Of the many wide-ranging national, provincial awards and local acclaims of excellence for ground-breaking cancer research Professor Juliet Daniel received, one that recently reverberated...

Last day to file income tax

Today is the deadline for the filing of income tax and a crowd has gathered at Queen’s Park Steel Shed, The City, where the...

Get more young people involved in Crop Over festival

A suggestion is being made to have more young people involved in the Crop Over festival including some aspects of Grand Kadooment. It’s coming from tent manager and...