Africa and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states must join forces to make greater input in important international policy and decision-making institutions and processes. That was the call from Acting Prime …
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By Jenique Belgrave The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has accused the Government of throwing employees of the National Conservation Commission (NCC) “under the bus” in the recent controversy at the …
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The Ministry of Education announced this year’s Barbados Scholarship and Exhibition winners even as it continues to try to resolve issues related to students being “ungraded” in Caribbean Examinations Council …
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Education Minister assures work on schools will be completed in time for new term
Teachers and students are being assured that when the new term begins in just over a week, public school plants will be in prime condition to facilitate the teaching and …
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds has requested a report regarding allegations that the island’s Consul General in New York Mackie Holder had verbally abused a New …
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Judge serves notice of harsh punishment for statutory rape offenders as she jails child rapist
High Court judge Madam Justice Pamela Beckles warned on Thursday that people who have sex with minors will face harsh punishment once convicted. “Sexual assaults upon young children must be …
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His record of thievery and the fact he has no fixed place of abode resulted in Junior Anderson Grafton Yarde being remanded to Dodds on Thursday. Yarde, 63, appeared before …
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The Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Third Sector is advising all employers, employees and their representatives that amendments have been made to the Safety and Health at Work (Workstation) …
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Police are investigating a stabbing incident in Cheshire, St John on Thursday night, in which 58-year-old Henry Leroy Greaves was killed. Assistant Superintendent Carolyn Blackman-Alleyne told reporters on the scene …
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Twenty-four year-old Javani Alleyne made history today as the recipient of the inaugural Errol Walton Barrow Scholarship. The past student of the Deighton Griffith Secondary School, who has a degree …