BERT ‘put more cash in Bajan pockets’ – Caddle Barbados Today11/03/2020394 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 Today11/03/20200110 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 Today11/03/2020086 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 Today11/03/2020023 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 Madden11/03/2020028 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 Today11/03/2020073 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 Today11/03/20200107 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 Today11/03/2020071 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 Joseph11/03/2020065 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
Imprisoned for threats to policeman Barbados Today11/03/2020077 views On the precincts of the Supreme Court complex back in January a 51-year-old man twice threatened to shoot a policer officer. And starting tonight Junior Anderson Grafton Yarde, who has… Read more