BY SHEENA FORDE-CRAIGG | AUG 8, 2022 Director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU), Dr. Leo Brewster, said that the training offered through the Sub-Regional Tsunami Evacuation Mapping Workshop could help in preparing communities for other coastal hazards such as storm surges and coastal flooding. (FP) Natural disaster officials are reiterating that Tsunami Evacuation […]
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BY FABIAN BELGRAVE | AUG 9, 2022 Top student Renelle Best With 100 per cent in both Mathematics and English, and an “A” in Composition, Renelle Tafari Best of St. Gabriel’s Primary, is the top performer in this year’s Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE). The top boy overall is Azario Kamin Glenroy Gooding of […]
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PICTURED ABOVE : Wife of the late Ezra Alleyne Tassiea Bryan Alleyne and children from left, Gayle Alleyne, Alistair Alleyne and Daun Alleyne at the graveside. A plethora of tributes characterised the contribution to Barbados by late lawyer, politician and teacher Ezra Alleyne whom Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley described as “a patriotic Barbadian”, during […]
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BY BGIS | AUG 8, 2022 | Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment, Charles Griffith. (GP) Minister of Youth, Sports, and Community Empowerment, Charles Griffith, has joined with the rest of the Barbadian public in congratulating Sada Williams, on her historic gold medal triumph at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Sada created history […]
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Dozens of well wishers visited the Lyndhurst Funeral Home and Chapel to bade farewell to prominent attorney Ezra Alleyne this afternoon.
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BY BGIS | AUG 3, 2022 Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Barbados, Wellington Darío Bencosme Castaños, presenting a gift to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley during today’s courtesy call at Ilaro Court, Two Mile Hill, St. Michael. (Photo: T. Barker/BGIS) Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Barbados, Wellington Darío Bencosme Castaños, today paid a courtesy call on Prime […]
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BY GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS | AUG 3, 2022 There are indeed few words that can describe the personal loss I feel, and the collective loss that Barbados and this region will experience, at the passing of Ben Arrindell today. When it came to matters involving international tax regimes, few could match what Ben brought to […]
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Pictured above — Brucelee Almightee with his season favourite Mauby. The showcase featured the top 20 from the 2022 People’s Choice Soca Rukshun made a debut this Crop Over season after a two-year festival hiatus. Although in this condensed version of the sweetest summer festival some of the traditional events were omitted, the National Cultural […]
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July 30 2022 Calypso Monarch Quon creates historyDequon “Quon” Alleyne is the 2022 Calypso Monarch. Around 2:15 a.m. on Saturday, July 29, the two-time Scotiabank JuniorMonarch was named winner of the Courtesy Garage Pic O De Cropcompetition beating a line-up of other veterans and four of his counterpartswho are also former Junior Monarchs. Quon’s name […]
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BY BGIS | JUL 29, 2022 Retired Chief Information Officer, Sharon Lynch poses with her mentor and counterpart Anthony Cave, during her retirement function on April 30. (T. Barker/BGIS) Sharon Rosemary Lynch, the Barbados Government Information Service’s (BGIS) eighth Chief Information Officer (CIO) and third female in that position, has said farewell to the department after […]
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