Shamar Blunt

A man has died after a dispute between two men escalated into a fatal stabbing in Haynesville, St James, on Tuesday afternoon, prompting a police appeal for witnesses. A person …

Insurance and pension support must now be treated as critical priorities for Barbados’ fishing industry if the sector is to become truly sustainable and supportive to the average worker in …

Calls are mounting for changes in the management of the ice machine system at the Bridgetown Fisheries Complex, as fisherfolk continue to grapple with ongoing shortages that are affecting their …

Assistant Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rene Orellana Halkyer, has praised  the level of organisation within Barbados’ fishing industry. During a tour of the Bridgetown Fisheries Complex …

The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) has renewed a key regional partnership aimed at improving disaster response coordination, with a fresh agreement focused on boosting the use of real-time …

Barbados is at a “moment for a national reset” in how it approaches health and wellness, with government moving to shift the country’s healthcare focus from treating illness to preventing …

Robust food security measures and access to reliable data must become a central priority for emergency response agencies across the Caribbean as the region faces increasingly destructive natural disasters, according …

President of Barbados, Jeffrey Bostic has issued an impassioned call for Barbadians to become more aggressive in tackling the country’s growing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) crisis, warning that current efforts are …

The Caribbean’s decade-old disaster management blueprint is being overhauled, driven by the destructive lessons of Hurricane Melissa, the growing complexity of regional hazards, and a shrinking international funding base — …