BY JULIA RAWLINS-BENTHAM | OCT 1, 2022 Minister of Home Affairs and Information, Wilfred Abrahams,pinning the Services Medal of Honour on Fire Officer Vera Wilkinson, at her home in Bourne’s Land, St. George, while Chief Fire Office Errol Maynard looks on. (C. Pitt/BGIS) Fire Officer Vera Wilkinson’s dedication to the Barbados Fire Service (BFS) has […]
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BY SHEENA FORDE-CRAIGG | SEP 30, 2022 PAHO/WHO’s new Representative, Amalia Del Riego Abreu, presents her credentials to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr. The Most Honourable Jerome Walcott, at the Ministry’s headquarters, Culloden Road, St. Michael, recently. (S. Forde-Craigg/BGIS) The “valuable, intimate and very involved” partnership between Barbados and the Pan […]
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BY JULIE CARRINGTON | SEP 30, 2022 Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley speaking during a recent press conference to announce that Barbados and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached an agreement for a new Extended Fund Facility. To her left is IMF Mission Chief, Bert van Selm. (C. Pitt/BGIS) Barbados and the International Monetary […]
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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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BY JULIE CARRINGTON | SEP 28, 2022 Archbishop Granville Williams blessing the last cane. (Photo: Barbados Today)The heavily trafficked Fairchild Street Terminal will soon bear the name of the patriarch and founder of the Spiritual Baptist Faith in Barbados – Archbishop the late Granville Williams. A ceremony to rename the terminal will be held on […]
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BY SHEENA FORDE-CRAIGG | SEP 29, 2022 Tourism Minister, Senator Lisa Cummins (centre) and Qatar’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Jassim bin Saif bin Ahmed Al Sulaiti (third from right), display their documents following the signing of the Air Services Agreement. Looking on are: (l-r) Secretary Air Transport Licensing Authority, Arlene Daniel; Permanent Secretary, Francine Blackman; Director of the Barbados Civil […]
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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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SEP 30, 2022 There were 34 new COVID-19 cases, 16 males and 18 females, recorded on Thursday, September 29, from the 323 tests conducted by laboratories across the island. The cases consisted of 11 persons under the age of 18, and 23 who were 18 years and older. The number of people in isolation facilities […]
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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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BY JULIE CARRINGTON | SEP 27, 2022 Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley speaking at the inaugural lecture in the Kofi Annan Lecture Series in New York, recently. (PMO) Faced with the financial fallout from the cost of living, debt and climate crises, Government has unveiled its Bridgetown Agenda as a guide for urgent and decisive […]
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