Covid-19: ‘Challenge to all humanity’ Barbados Today11/03/2020074 views Covid-19, the novel strain of coronavirus, is not just a Chinese problem, but a global one, given the fact that China “is the country most deeply embedded in global trade… Read more
BERT ‘put more cash in Bajan pockets’ – Caddle Barbados Today11/03/2020386 views Economic Affairs Minister Marsha Caddle has defended the homegrown structural adjustment programme known as BERT, suggesting it has put as much as five per cent more money in the pockets… Read more
Entrepreneurship ‘part of our culture’ Barbados Today11/03/20200102 views Declaring entrepreneurship is part of Barbadian culture, Minister of People Empowerment Cynthia Forde has indicated that her administration’s policies will put the accent on entrepreneurship and those who emerge as… Read more
BNSI lab fees ‘to go up’ Barbados Today11/03/2020061 views The Barbados National Standards Institute (BNSI) is to raise the fees for its laboratory services, Minister of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Commerce Dwight Sutherland has said. He gave notice of… Read more
Prime Minister outlines health strategy amid ‘very high risk’ of spread Barbados Today11/03/2020021 views With news of the first case of COVID-19 in the English-speaking Caribbean as a patient tested positive for the virus in Jamaica, Prime Minister Mia Mottley has announced a strategy… Read more
Merchants warned against profiteering off virus Marlon Madden11/03/2020025 views In light of mounting fear among residents over the COVID-19, which has so far led to a run on some items in supermarkets and pharmacies, officials have issued a stern… Read more
Opposition: Learn from virus epidemic Barbados Today11/03/2020060 views The threat of the Coronavirus is yet another reminder that Barbados can no longer afford to put all of its eggs in the tourism basket. This is the view of… Read more
PM in CARICOM quartet’s mission to Guyana Barbados Today11/03/2020096 views CARICOM Chairman Prime Minister Mia Mottley leads a quartet of regional leaders to Georgetown tomorrow amid mounting tensions triggered by the last Monday’s general elections. Political unrest has been widespread… Read more
#BTEditorial – Panicking, ignorance over Covid-19 helps no one. Barbados Today11/03/2020052 views The news that Jamaica has become the first in the Anglophone region to test positive for the presence of the novel form of coronavirus, dubbed Covid-19 will sorely test a… Read more
Coronavirus takes toll on travel agencies Emmanuel Joseph11/03/2020060 views The coronavirus crisis which has so far claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people worldwide and recorded some 113,000 confirmed cases, has begun to take its toll on travel… Read more