BY SHEENA FORDE-CRAIGG | MAR 30, 2023 Mexico’s Ambassador to Barbados, Víctor Hugo Morales Meléndez presents a gift to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds, during their courtesy call, today. (S. Forde-Craigg/BGIS) Barbados and Mexico have agreed to bolster their cordial and cooperative relationship, which was formally established on September 11, 1972. […]
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BY FABIAN BELGRAVE | MAR 30, 2023 Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Professor Clive Landis; China’s Ambassador to Barbados, Yan Xiusheng; and Member of Parliament, Cynthia Forde, break ground at the site for a multimillion-dollar Agricultural Research Park at Dukes, St. Thomas on Tuesday. Looking on […]
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BY FABIAN BELGRAVE | MAR 30, 2023 Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Professor Clive Landis; China’s Ambassador to Barbados, Yan Xiusheng; and Member of Parliament, Cynthia Forde, break ground at the site for a multimillion-dollar Agricultural Research Park at Dukes, St. Thomas on Tuesday. Looking on […]
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BY JULIE CARRINGTON | APR 3, 2023 Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley in discussion with China’s Ambassador to Barbados, Yan Xiusheng, at the recent ground breaking ceremony for the Duke’s Agricultural Research Park in St. Thomas. Looking on (from left to right) are Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, […]
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BY GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS | MAR 29, 2023 (GP) The Electoral and Boundaries Commission (EBC) advises that the collection of the Trident ID card from the 12 registration centres across the island, will come to an end on Friday, March 31, after which all cards will be available for collection at the office at Warrens Tower II, […]
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BY JOY-ANN GILL | MAR 29, 2023 Shirley Chisholm in 1972. (Thomas J. O’Halloran, U.S. News & World Reports. Light restoration by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) After almost five decades as Vauxhall Primary School, the education institution located at Vauxhall, Christ Church, is about to bear a new name. The school, which […]
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BY JULIE CARRINGTON | MAR 27, 2023 | Inter-Amerian Development Bank’s Country Representative, Viviana Alva Hart, and Minister in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs and Investment, Ryan Straughn, in deep discussion during the recent Bonfire Procurement System vendor sensitisation session at LESC. (GP) Come Saturday, April 1, there will be a soft launch […]
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BY JULIE CARRINGTON | MAR 22, 2023 Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Culture, Senator Dr. Shantal Munro-Knight addressing the audience at “An Evening With The Poet Laureate Esther Phillips”. (B.Hinds/BGIS) Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Culture, Senator Dr. Shantal Munro-Knight, is pleased with the “explosion” of culture […]
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BY JULIA RAWLINS-BENTHAM | MAR 21, 2023 | The Department of Emergency Management. (FP) The public is reminded that a national communications test will be conducted in Barbados on Thursday, March 23, as the Department of Emergency Management seeks to conduct a full assessment of the National Communications Systems, including radio station interrupts. This will […]
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BY JULIE CARRINGTON | MAR 21, 2023 | Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley expressing her deep appreciation to Poet Laureate Esther Phillips, who presented her with a copy of the poem A Tribute to the Prime Minister, The Honourable Mia Amor Mottley. (B.Hinds/BGIS) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley was so moved by the deep philosophical writings by […]
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