Pictured above – CEO of ‘Floor It Guyana’ and ‘Hardware Solutions Depot’, Andre Cummings Guyanese businessman brings innovation to ‘flooring’ By Staff Reporter | October 8, 2020 IN support of value-added products manufactured locally, Guyanese businessman, Andre Cummings, has taken his lumber-export business further by offering enhanced, ‘exotic’ flooring, which has increased his earning 15 […]
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Laboratory results from tests conducted on Monday, October 5, have shown that three women have tested positive for COVID-19 after their second tests. This brings the island’s total number of confirmed cases to 203. They are an asymptomatic 19-year-old Jamaican who arrived on a CAL flight on September 26; an asymptomatic 29-year-old Barbadian who arrived […]
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Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, David Comissiong. (FP) Statement by Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, David Comissiong – It Is Our CXC: Let Us Work Out A Solution In the interest of those 5th and 6th form students across our region who have been negatively impacted by the controversy surrounding the declared results of this year’s Caribbean Examinations Council’s […]
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Pictured Acting Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Kenneth George during a recent Press briefing. Acting Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Kenneth George, has advised residents to remain calm in the wake of a COVID-19 cluster which includes two students at The Ellerslie School. The cluster is so far confined to members of one family. Dr. […]
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Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Sergio Jorge Pastrana and Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, David Comissiong, lay wreaths at the Cubana monument during yesterday’s commemoration ceremony in Payne’s Bay. (S. Pilé/BGIS) Repeated calls for the Caribbean to remain a Zone of Peace were made during the 44th commemoration of the Cubana Airlines tragedy, held yesterday, Tuesday, October […]
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The Cuban contingent of nurses, who were assigned to help Barbados in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, will continue their work on the island for another six months. Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Barbados, Sergio Jorge Pastrana, made the disclosure this morning during the 44th commemoration of the Cubana Airlines tragedy, held at […]
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From left to right: BNSI Director (Ag), Haydn Rhynd; Minister of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Kerrie Symmonds; Managing Director of Courts, Trisha Tannis; and BNSI Chairman, Ryan Brathwaite, examine the Safe Business Verification Certificate which the company received today from the BNSI during a ceremony in the store. (GP) Minister of Energy, Small Business and […]
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(Stock Photo) Barbados challenges the EU’s decision to list the island as a non-cooperative Jurisdiction for tax purposes Prime Minister Mottley describes the action as unjustified and disproportionate Bridgetown, BARBADOS. October 6, 2020: Barbados is appalled at the unjust and disproportionate treatment meted out to two of the smallest countries in the world, namely Anguilla and […]
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Minister of International Business and Industry, Ronald Toppin. (FP) A pending move by the European Union (EU) to blacklist Barbados has been described as “heartless” by Minister of Industry and International Business, Ronald Toppin. Speaking via zoom during the Barbados International Business Association’s launch of Global Business Week 2020, Minister Toppin said “barring a miraculous […]
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Three more members of one family have tested positive for COVID-19 after three other family members tested positive in previous days. Among the 268 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory yesterday were three positives – the four-month-old baby and the 34-year-old husband of a woman who tested positive on Friday, and a […]
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