BARBADOS: Training In Solar Panels Installation Coming.

Minister of Energy, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship, Kerrie Symmonds. (FP) Minister of Energy, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship, Kerrie Symmonds, will be visiting communities to seek out men and women interested in being trained to install solar panels on homes across the island. He gave this commitment recently, during an interview with the Barbados Government Information Service, […]

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BARBADOS: Andromeda Gardens Free To Locals Until Year End.

Minister of Tourism, Senator Lisa Cummins (right) presents Curator of the Andromeda Botanic Gardens, Sharon Cooke, with a token of appreciation during a visit to the tourist attraction yesterday. Looking on is the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc.’s Chief Product Development Officer, Marsha Alleyne. (S.Forde-Craigg/BGIS) Curator of the Andromeda Botanic Gardens, Sharon Cooke, has revealed that […]

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BARBADOS: ‘Barbados Uh Come From’ Initiative Launched.

Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Senator Lisa Cummins (left); Permanent Secretary, Donna Cadogan and officials listen attentively to Curator of the Andromeda Botanic Gardens, Sharon Cooke, during a tour of the attraction yesterday. (S.Forde-Craigg/BGIS) The Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) has developed the Barbados Uh Come From initiative, in its effort to emerge with a “re-energised […]

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BARBADOS: Reimagined Tourism Product On The Horizon

(Stock Photo) Government and various tourism stakeholders have been working to refashion “a reimagined tourism product”. Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Senator Lisa Cummins, made this disclosure while addressing the Together Again event, hosted by the Barbados Conference Services Limited, in collaboration with some of its strategic industry partners, at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre last […]

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BARBADOS: Interest Remains High In Welcome Stamp Programme.

(Stock Photo) Significant, serious and positive interest has been shown in Barbados’ 12-Month Welcome Stamp Programme, since it was announced by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley. Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs, Wilfred Abrahams, gave this assessment during a press conference to provide an update on the programme yesterday, in the Ministry’s conference room. […]

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BARBADOS: Secondary School Teachers Voice Their Concerns

Minister of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, Santia Bradshaw, and Acting Chief Education Officer, Joy Adamson. (FP) Hundreds of secondary school teachers turned up at the Wildey Gymnasium, Wildey, St. Michael, this morning, for the first in a series of meetings, this week, between teachers and Minister of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, Santia Bradshaw. […]

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