| OCT 13, 2022 Barbados continues to take steps towards reforming the global financial system through The Bridgetown Agenda. This came to the fore on Wednesday as Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, met with global leaders and also joined with Finance Ministers from across the world for the first in person Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting since […]
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BY SHARON AUSTIN | OCT 10, 2022 Minister of Energy and Business, Kerrie Symmonds (right), receiving a copy of the CROSQ Strategic Plan from Executive Director of St. Kitts and Nevis’ Bureau of Standards and Vice Chair of the CROSQ Council, Stuart La Place, while CROSQ’s Chief Executive Officer, Deryck Omar, looks on. (S. Austin/BGIS) […]
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The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday said that it had obtained judgment against SOL Guyana Inc for Corporation Tax owed in the sum of $2.7b together with penalties and interest until the date of payment. In a statement, GRA also said that a Judge in the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature, on […]
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October 7, 2022Subject: New NIFCA Winning Words publishedA transition from pre-pandemic to pandemic, that best describes the latestedition of the book: ArtsEtc NIFCA [National Independence Festival ofCreative Arts] Winning Words Anthology 2019/2020.Produced by the National Cultural Foundation (NCF), the publication haspieces which reflect the period just before the COVID-19 pandemic as wellas submissions made while […]
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Pictured standing Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Sergio Jorge Pastrana watching Sen.Dr. the Hon. Shantal Munro-Knight, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Culture (closest to camera) and H.E. the Hon.Dame Billie Miller, D.A., O.C.C., BCH lay wreaths at the monument. Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October […]
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An International press conference was held today 5th October 2022 at PomMarine Hotel in Barbados on the Campaign to designate October 6 as ” U.N International Day Against Terrorism” Left to right in picture above: Onkpha Wells, Lalu Hanuman, David Denny and Enrique Berumen. Press Statement By Coalition of Caribbean Civil Society Organizations A Call […]
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The celebration culminated with a touching surprise, when the Venezuelan Chargé D’Affaires, Martha Ortega Peraza and the laureate Barbadian plastic arts artist, David “Guru” McClean presented a tribute from the people of Venezuela to the people of Barbados, in the person of its most important singer-songwriter Mighty Gabby, consisting of an artistic piece made by […]
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The Ministry of Youth, Sports & Community Empowerment through the Division of Youth Affairs presented a NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE Celebrating National Youth Week 2022 at the Garfield Sobers Auditorium on the 25th September. In attendance were Her Excellency, The Most Honorable Dame Sandra Mason President of the Republic of Barbados, The Honorable CharlesGriffith Minister of […]
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Officials broke ground on Tuesday to make way for the new Hotel Indigo on the south of the island pictured here from the Artist drawing. First Published on September 28, 2022 by Barbados Today As officials broke ground on Tuesday to make way for the new Hotel Indigo on the south of the island, Prime […]
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BY JULIA RAWLINS-BENTHAM | SEP 27, 2022 Critical recommendations outlined in a departmental inquiry on the Government Industrial School (GIS) are being given priority treatment by Government as it moves to reform that institution. Moving the females from the Barrows, St. Lucy facility to Dodds, St. Philip and addressing staffing issues are key among those […]
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