Barbados is much better placed to respond to future pandemics with the upgrade and expansion of the testing facilities at the Best dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. According to director …
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Steps must be taken to teach children the dangers and threats that come with excessive social media use, a faith-based campaigner said on Thursday as his charity launched a social …
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The Environmental Health Department is constrained by a shortage of officers, but senior officials assure efforts are afoot to remedy the problem. Chief Environmental Health Officer Francina Bascombe told the …
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Haymans Market, a new dining, retail and entertainment complex, now into its fourth month on the site of the old Haymans sugar plantation and factory in St Peter, was formally …
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The Prime Minister has suggested the repurposing of the old Haymans sugar factory in St Peter into the Haymans Market could be applied to several assets lying dormant across the …
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Reports of yet another violent school outbreak, the third in as many days – this time involving a parent – have emerged while the Ministry of Education agreed to introduce …
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By Shamar Blunt The former head of the National Organisation for Women (NOW) has challenged the finding that there has been a rise in domestic violence, suggesting instead the island …
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A leading international labour figure has raised questions about the former National Insurance Scheme’s transition to the new National Insurance and Social Security Service (NISSS), strongly suggesting the move was …
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By Sheria Brathwaite The bell has finally been rung to start the 2024 sugar harvest season. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Browne, chairman of the two new cooperative-owned firms that took …
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The deployment of Barbadian peacekeeping troops to crisis-torn Haiti has been put on hold, a senior government minister has revealed. Minister of Foreign Affairs Kerrie Symmonds disclosed on Thursday that …