The Cuban contingent of nurses, who were assigned to help Barbados in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, will continue their work on the island for another six months. Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Barbados, Sergio Jorge Pastrana, made the disclosure this morning during the 44th commemoration of the Cubana Airlines tragedy, held at […]
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From left to right: BNSI Director (Ag), Haydn Rhynd; Minister of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Kerrie Symmonds; Managing Director of Courts, Trisha Tannis; and BNSI Chairman, Ryan Brathwaite, examine the Safe Business Verification Certificate which the company received today from the BNSI during a ceremony in the store. (GP) Minister of Energy, Small Business and […]
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(Stock Photo) Barbados challenges the EU’s decision to list the island as a non-cooperative Jurisdiction for tax purposes Prime Minister Mottley describes the action as unjustified and disproportionate Bridgetown, BARBADOS. October 6, 2020: Barbados is appalled at the unjust and disproportionate treatment meted out to two of the smallest countries in the world, namely Anguilla and […]
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Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic speaking at a Barbados Labour Party meeting in Glebe Land, St George on Sunday night ( 4th October 2020 ) in support of Senator Toni Moore’s candidacy in the November 11 by-election in St George North. View a pictorial of the Meeting here……. click this link. Within the next few […]
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Minister of International Business and Industry, Ronald Toppin. (FP) A pending move by the European Union (EU) to blacklist Barbados has been described as “heartless” by Minister of Industry and International Business, Ronald Toppin. Speaking via zoom during the Barbados International Business Association’s launch of Global Business Week 2020, Minister Toppin said “barring a miraculous […]
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Pictured above Minister of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, Santia Bradshaw speaking at yesterday’s press conference while The Ellerslie School’s Principal, Lt. Col. Errol Brathwaite looks on. (GP) The Ellerslie School, Black Rock, St. Michael, will be temporarily closed for the next 14 days after a student there tested positive for COVID-19. The student, a […]
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Three more members of one family have tested positive for COVID-19 after three other family members tested positive in previous days. Among the 268 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory yesterday were three positives – the four-month-old baby and the 34-year-old husband of a woman who tested positive on Friday, and a […]
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PICTURED above Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic speaking to the press. STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS LT. COL. JEFFREYBOSTIC REGARDING CLUSTER OF COVID-19 CASESGood AfternoonAfter several days of aggressive contact tracing related to a positive COVID-19 case diagnosed on September 24, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has discovered […]
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To Barbadians he was the “People’s King”, but to his daughter Zena Worrell, Colin Observer Reid, 65, was the greatest father in the world. And to thousands he was a simple man who loved Calypso and penned and sung some of the best Calypsoes at many a competition. However hundreds packed the Chapel at Coral […]
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A 30-year-old female is the latest person to be diagnosed with COVID-19 in Barbados. Identified through contact tracing, the Barbadian woman is now a patient at the isolation facility at Harrison Point, St. Lucy, where three people will be discharged today after recovering from the viral illness. These developments reduced the numbers in isolation to […]
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