QEH eye clinic gets more equipment to improve service delivery Sheria Brathwaite20/09/20230124 views A donation of four new slit lamps from the Barbados Canada Foundation is expected to increase the number of patients who can be seek in the Ophthalmology Department at the… Read more
Advocate staff unpaid for past five months Emmanuel Joseph20/09/20230109 views Employees of The Barbados Advocate have been going home empty-handed yet again. The workers are reporting that after getting salaries up to the first half of March, they received no… Read more
Global business sector performing well Marlon Madden20/09/20230113 views The global business sector has continued to put in a strong performance coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, President of the Barbados International Business Association (BIBA) Jamar Arthur-Selman… Read more
Home help Sheria Brathwaite20/09/20230161 views Government is assisting thousands of Barbadians living in homes that are not structurally equipped to withstand bad weather during the Atlantic hurricane season. Minister of Housing Dwight Sutherland made the… Read more
#BTEditorial – Education reform requires non-partisan guidance Barbados Today20/09/2023096 views As the new school year begins, public attention turns to the state of education in Barbados and the latest chapter of change. In this moment of the long cycle of… Read more
Juvenile Liaison Scheme participants plant trees in initiative aimed at character building Barbados Today20/09/20230152 views Fifteen members of the Juvenile Liaison Scheme recently joined an initiative to plant between 5 000 to 10 000 trees along the popular multi-purpose Barbados Trailway Project. According to Sergeant… Read more
National screening programme to help identify vascular problems Sheria Brathwaite20/09/2023092 views By Sheria Brathwaite The Barbados Diabetes Foundation has launched a new programme aimed at detecting vascular issues that could further deteriorate the health of people living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs).… Read more
Franklyn to speak, but meeting won’t be DLP branded Barbados Today20/09/20230113 views The St Peter branch of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has agreed to move ahead with former opposition senator Caswell Franklyn as guest speaker at a meeting on Sunday despite… Read more
Abrahams cautions against making Child Justice Bill cumbersome Barbados Today20/09/20230103 views Home Affairs Minister Wilfred Abrahams is urging caution against adding “unnecessary layers” to the Child Justice Bill. He was responding to a question from Toni Moore, chair of the Joint… Read more
Biggie Irie, Richard Stoute hospitalised Barbados Today20/09/20230141 views Two of this country’s top entertainers, Geoffrey Biggie Irie Cordle and Richard Stoute, have been hospitalised. Barbados TODAY has confirmed that Cordle, a leading reggae and sweet soca artiste, was… Read more