MAY 13, 2021 Pictured above – Minister of Home Affairs, Wilfred Abrahams breaking ground for government’s latest housing project, HOPE Inc. Premium, at Atlantic Breeze, Chancery Lane, Christ Church yesterday. Looking on is Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance, William Duguid ( David Crichlow – CARIBPIX.NET Photo ) Government’s latest housing project, HOPE Inc. Premium, was […]
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BY SHARON AUSTIN | MAY 13, 2021 | TOP STORIES Government will be hosting a public-private consultation on derelict houses to ascertain how best to bring them back into productive use. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley made this disclosure last evening as she delivered remarks at the launch of the Atlantic Breeze Lifestyle Development, at Chancery Lane, Christ Church. Ms. […]
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Dr. Carla Natalie Barnett has been appointed as the 8th CARICOM Secretary-General. Dr Barnett, a national of Belize, is the first woman and the first Belizean to be selected for the post. (CARICOM) The Caribbean Community has appointed its first female Secretary-General. She is Belizian Dr. Carla Natalie Barnett, an economist who Prime Minister Mia […]
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MAY 12, 2021 Government is committed to forging a stronger relationship with the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) multi-country office and their new representative. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott, gave this commitment recently, and offered his support to the new UNDP Resident Representative to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Ms. Valerie Cliff, […]
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Kemol KingMay 9, 2021 – Finance Minister Senior Minister in the Office of the President, with responsibility for Finance, Hon. Dr. Ashni Singh has said it is never too late to continue learning and upskilling oneself, in a plea to older Guyanese to apply for one of the Government’s 20,000 online scholarships. The programme is […]
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(Stock Photo) Employees are advised that the 2020 Reverse Tax Credit (RTC) return, better known as the ‘$1300’, is available for filing. The return should be filed online in TAMIS by December 31, 2022. Employees eligible for the RTC are those who, during the 2020 calendar year, earned a total annual income below $25,000; had less than […]
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Staff WriterMay 7, 2021 Throughout the last two weeks of April, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) completed a series of training sessions, product development outreaches as well as inspections as part of its commitment to continuously develop Guyana’s tourism sector as well as promote safe travel amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Introduction to Tourism Training – On […]
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(Stock Photo) For the fiscal period ending March 31, 2021, the Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA) collected just over $2.24 billion. However, says the Revenue Commissioner at the BRA, Louisa Lewis-Ward, this amount is down by over $208 million in comparison with the previous year, and she attributes the decrease to the COVID-19 pandemic and a […]
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From left to right: Mario Eastmond of Prison Fellowship Barbados (PFB); Director of Youth Affairs, Cleviston Hunte; Minister Dwight Sutherland; PFB Director, Neil Dowden; Manager of YES, Ryan Moseley; and Pastor Jasma Dottin, PFB, at today’s handover ceremony. (S. Forde-Craigg/BGIS) The Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme (YES) has partnered with Prison Fellowship Barbados (PFB) to provide training […]
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Government has offered a helping hand to just under 100 displaced Barbadian workers of the regional airline LIAT. (FP) The Government has offered a helping hand to just under 100 displaced Barbadian workers of LIAT, who will get some relief by early next week. During an hour-and-a-half-long Zoom meeting with dozens of the former employees […]
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