Natural disaster debt pause offered by Canada Barbados Today19/10/20230548 views As Barbados was placed until tropical storm watch on Wednesday, Canada offered to pause debt repayments for Caribbean countries hit by natural disasters. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement… Read more
Hundreds of thousands still in dark from ice storm in Canada Barbados Today08/04/20230123 views (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people remained without power Friday in eastern Canada two days after a storm left parts of Quebec and Ontario coated in ice, causing tree… Read more
TikTok banned on all Canadian government mobile devices Barbados Today27/02/20230120 views SOURCE: AP — Canada announced Monday it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices, reflecting widening worries from Western officials over the Chinese-owned video sharing app. Prime Minister Justin… Read more
Jamaican-Canadian journalist debuts with children’s book Barbados Today25/11/20220109 views Toronto, Canada— Jamaican-Canadian journalist and writer Desmond Loren Brown has made his debut as an author of fiction with his children’s book publication, The Boy and the Honeybees. The book… Read more
Canada protests: Police push back demonstrators in Ottawa Barbados Today19/02/20220164 views SOURCE: BBC — Police in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, are moving to closer to the hub of an anti-vaccine mandate protest that has gripped the city for three-weeks. More than 100… Read more
More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada Barbados Today30/05/20211147 views SOURCE: AP — The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential… Read more
Canada confirms first cases of COVID-19 UK variant in Ontario Barbados Today26/12/20200169 views Today, Dr Barbara Yaffe, Ontario’s Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health, announced the first two confirmed cases in Ontario of the COVID-19 variant first identified in the UK. This variant… Read more
Canada’s largest city moves back into lockdown Barbados Today21/11/20200156 views Toronto is moving back into lockdown after grim projections show Canada is on the brink of being overwhelmed by Covid-19. Canada’s largest city will close most non-essential businesses and services,… Read more
7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of Alaska Barbados Today22/07/20200163 views CNN- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 struck off the coast of Alaska early Wednesday morning. The earthquake was centered 60 miles, or 98 kilometers, south-southeast, of Perryville,… Read more
At least 13 people dead in gunman’s rampage in Canada Barbados Today19/04/20200134 views At least 13 people were killed during a gunman’s bloody 12-hour rampage through several Nova Scotia communities, and police warn there may be more victims. In an update on Sunday evening,… Read more