Smaller Retailers Urged To Form A Cooperative

(Pictured Above) Operations Manager of Trimart Supermarket, Peter Chaseshows Commerce Minister, Dwight Sutherland, the price and quality of the supermarket’s poultry during a tour at Mile-And-A-Quarter, St. Peter today while management of the supermarket and ministry officials look on. (GP) Minimarts and smaller supermarkets are being encouraged to form a cooperative that would benefit their […]

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HIV Food Bank Receives Donation

The HIV Food Bank was given a helping hand this morning, with a donation of proceeds from the Home Expo 2012, which was recently held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. The Home Expo featured a special Love, Poetry and Song: The Remix show; a collaborative effort between the Expo coordinators and the Barbados Government […]

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Electric Buses – The Way Forward

(Picture Source:- Barbados Today) The possibility of Barbados assembling electric buses was a very real one. This is the opinion of Mr Ralph “Bizzy” Williams and business partner Mr Wayne Clarke after completing a very successful test ride from the Pine headquarters of the Licensing Authority to Bathsheba in St Joseph in an electric bus […]

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Fish Boner Gives Back To Hometown

Chapman Lane, St. Michael resident Brenda Hinkson receiving her parcel of fish from Shane “Snuffy” Joseph. (GP) An initiative to ensure that vulnerable families affected by COVID-19 had protein on their plates spilled into the city district of Chapman Lane, St. Michael, yesterday. This time it was fish boner, Shane “Snuffy” Joseph, who wanted to […]

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Minister Forde Welcomes Back NAB Staff

Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs Cynthia Forde (left) welcoming staff members of the NAB back to work today. Second from left is NAB Director, Charyn Wilson. (C.Pitt/BGIS) Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs, Cynthia Forde, this morning welcomed the staff of the National Assistance Board back to headquarters after they exited quarantine […]

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