Despite raising multiple red flags back in 2015 regarding poor adherence to financial accountability protocols, Financial Controller of the Transport Board Felicia Sue claims the concerns were ignored by the …
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The country’s famed residential drug treatment centre, Verdun House, is looking to expand its programme – with $5 million dollars to help, chairman of the Substance Abuse Foundation (SAF) Peter …
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Although the deadly coronavirus poses no “direct threat” to Barbados, healthcare officials are leaving no stones unturned in a bid to keep it out, announcing fresh plans to tighten controls …
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2019 could be the driest year in Barbados in half a century, as rainfall levels plummeted, according to a preliminary assessment by the Principal of the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology …
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Commuters, frustrated by poor public transport service, are to be given an opportunity to vent and suggest improvements, as a “commuter advocacy group” tours the island. The group is an …
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Pupils of the Lawrence T Gay Memorial Primary School, currently closed because of air quality issues, reported for classes at four temporary locations today. Class 4 students started classes at …
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Barbados could benefit from a major special policy-based loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as the country embarks on its environmental sustainability programmes. IDB Country Representative to Barbados Juan …
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It is a shorthand phrase in Barbadian history that the Barbados Labour Party was on the wrong side of history in the Independence Question of 1966. It is an intellectual …
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With the abuse of legal synthetic drugs fast becoming a global epidemic, the laws governing the dispensing for pharmaceutical use must be upgraded in line with the current trend, the …
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Government has placed the issue of natural disasters high on its list of priorities, Minister of Economic Affairs and Investment Marsha Caddle has assured. But while cautioning that the Mia …