‘Time for women’ on BCCUL board
The leadership of Barbados’ credit union movement has been blasted as an old boys’ club by a female business executive who is demanding immediate change. Lynette Holder, the chief executive officer...
View ArticleIn honour of the fallen
Opposition Leader Mia Mottley, wearing a lace off-white long dress also joined Chief of Staff of the Barbados Defence Force, Colonel Alvin Quintyne and Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Erwin...
View ArticleMaking a dream reality
The owner of the fledging boutique DFB that she runs from home and one of the names behind the Miss Barbados World franchise, she said, “My mum was always fashionable but I was a tomboy. I didn't like...
View ArticleEliminate Ebola risk
Eliminate Ebola risk. NATHAN COLLYMORE,. Added 11 November 2014. In a previous letter to the Editor, I questioned the Government's reasons for not restricting travel to Barbados by nationals of the...
View ArticleALL AH WE IS ONE: Conservatism's cost
Like all ideological positions, these claims are more imagined than real, since for example, the “crises” and “backwardness” of the societies benchmarking Barbados exist mainly in the minds of...
View ArticleOFF CENTRE: The talk that never ends
Everywhere you turn in Barbados, somebody (especially some well placed soul) is called on to pave others' way with mere talk. Children at the Stadium ready to run, jump and throw and spectators eager...
View Article'Exploit heritage site'
“For example, the 2012 designation by UNESCO of Historic Bridgetown And Its Garrison as a World Heritage Site is still underexploited by our creative community – an achievement that not only will...
View ArticleWindward gets 4-Day Match
ST JOHN'S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today announced that it has approved a change in venue for the second round match between hosts Barbados and visiting Jamaica in the...
View ArticleBusiness laws to be amended
Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss, who piloted the amendments in the House of Assembly today, said they would also help Barbados meet...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: No down payment on house
Minister Brathwaite said: “The concept of housing in Barbados is changing. There was a time when our builders were accustomed to building elaborate $400 000 houses. People just did not believe that...
View ArticleSealy: 'Success' from World Travel Market meetings
Speaking from the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc.'s (BTMI) stand at London's Excel Exhibition Centre, in the United Kingdom (UK), he stated: “We are proud to support our tourism stakeholders at this...
View ArticleRenewable energy only?
A GERMAN UNIVERSITY professor with years of experience in sustainable energy systems thinks Barbados can have 100 per cent renewable energy and lower energy bills within the next 10 years.
View ArticleSealy: 'Success' from World Travel Market meetings
Speaking from the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc.'s (BTMI) stand at London's Excel Exhibition Centre, in the United Kingdom (UK), he stated: “We are proud to support our tourism stakeholders at this...
View ArticleRenewable energy only?
A GERMAN UNIVERSITY professor with years of experience in sustainable energy systems thinks Barbados can have 100 per cent renewable energy and lower energy bills within the next 10 years.
View ArticleTHE ISSUE: More – or better taxes?
There were other recommendations, including taxes on the sale of property, a proposal called “asinine” and “stupid” by Barbados Economic Society president Jeremy Stephen. Minister of Finance and...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: National effort needed to fund health care
Anything Barbadian entertainment superstar Rihanna does attracts attention. So that her planned charity ball in Beverly Hills, California, next month to raise funds for philanthropic purposes cannot...
View ArticleBajan Pride
New interim CEO of the Barbados Cricket Association, David Deane (L), with Barbados manager Hartley Reid and chairman of selectors Hendy Wallace (R) at the launch of the Barbados Pride. (Picture by...
View ArticleWard on point
The 12th Bryden Stokes Barbados Darts Festival came to a fitting finale at Solidarity House on Sunday evening with a superb display of darting excellence from Lancastrian Peter Ward in the final of The...
View ArticleBarbados express Shamilia Connell adds Joel Garner touch to West Indies
Connell, who, like Garner of the fearsome Calypso Kings who ruled the sport in the 1970s and '80s, is from Barbados, tall, dangerously quick and not scared to bowl bouncers, made her international one...
View ArticleBarbados express Shamilia Connell adds Joel Garner touch to West Indies...
The Australian women's cricket team was braced for another barrage of Joel Garner-like fire and brimstone from rookie West Indies pace bowler Shamilia Connell in Thursday's one-day international at...
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