Judicial

The government is moving to introduce a new bankruptcy and insolvency framework later this year, in a bid to reinforce Barbados’ financial system and safeguard depositors, Minister of Finance Ryan …

Member of Parliament for St George North and general secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) Toni Moore has urged fellow lawmakers to revisit several recommendations that were not incorporated …

Minister of Transport and Works Kirk Humphrey has thrown his support behind the Protection of Wages Bill, calling it “fundamental to human dignity”. Speaking on the bill’s introduction in the …

The government is taking a zero-tolerance approach to worker exploitation, it said on Tuesday, as it laid a new bill before Parliament to bring sweeping protections aimed at strengthening their …

Barbados is being urged to make a complete transition from the use of pounds in commercial transactions and fully adopt kilogrammes, as the Barbados National Standards Institution (BNSI) warns that …

Opposition Senator Karina Goodridge has backed a judge’s call for an urgent fix of persistent delays in transporting prisoners to court, warning that repeated late arrivals are stalling hearings, inflating …

Attorney General Wilfred Abrahams has hailed proposed human tissue transplant legislation as a “watershed moment” for Barbados, saying it will bring long-awaited hope to patients in need of life-saving organ …

A new organ transplant law will only succeed if Barbados confronts deep-rooted religious and cultural resistance to donation, independent senator and internal medicine expert Dr Kenneth Connell has warned, urging …

Opposition Senator Karina Goodridge pledged her full support for the Human Tissue Transplant Bill in a rare outbreak of bipartisanship in the Senate, framing the legislation as a long-overdue response …