Transportation

Wheelchair users are reporting that transport has improved with the introduction of accessible buses, but they say high taxi costs, inadequate infrastructure and limitations of public transport continue to affect …

With the new school year approaching, transport – not school supplies – remains the most pressing back-to-school need for families of children with disabilities, according to the Barbados Council for …

Just hours before the island was placed under flash flood watch and drenched by heavy rains from a tropical wave, St George North MP Toni Moore raised concern that drainage …

Potholes have quickly become the dominant complaint on the newly launched Pearly digital platform, with hundreds of Barbadians logging road defects and tracking the nearest Transport Board bus, according to …

The owners of the island’s privately run public service vehicle (PSV) industry are set to launch an ambitious ten-point transit plan that will include free on-demand service to the disabled …

An inter-Caribbean passenger ferry service will need strict regional safety standards and coordinated emergency systems to work, an experienced mariner and fisherman has warned, citing Saturday’s Guyana river ferry disaster …

Barbadians are increasingly embracing electric (EV) and hybrid vehicles (HEVs), with dealerships reporting a sharp rise in demand as consumers seek to lower fuel costs and take advantage of government …

Government interventions are holding down fuel and electricity costs for households, with motorists paying about 50 cents a litre less at the pump than market rates would otherwise dictate, Minister …

A proposed CARICOM ferry service should be designed first and foremost around the commercial movement of goods, with passenger transport treated as secondary, economist Jeremy Stephen has suggested, if the …