Barbados Tridents retain Shakib for CPL
Sports Correspondent, bdnews24.com. Published: 2014-04-04 17:54:46.0 BdST Updated: 2014-04-04 18:23:41.0 BdST. Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan will represent the Barbados Tridents in the...
View ArticleNo retrenchments within Barbados Revenue Authority says official
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday April 4, 2014, CMC – A senior Barbados government official says there have been no layoffs within the public service as the government moves to implement the Barbados...
View ArticleKing puts Barbados up 1-0
Barbados are up 1-0 in their pivotal Davis Cup Americas Group II tie against El Salvador following Darian King's latest straight-sets victory at the National Tennis Centre. Playing in front a modest...
View ArticleBoost for culinary tourism
THE EMERGENCE OF BARBADOS as a culinary tourism destination is being vigorously pursued. Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy revealed this initiative recently during the Chef’s Table event at Bellevue...
View Article‘No open door’ for disabled
BARBADOS NEEDS to get more of its children with disabilities in school. This point was made by acting director of the National Disabilities Unit, Lloyd Springer, addressing a meeting of the Autism...
View ArticleBarbados take 2-1 Davis Cup lead
BARBADOS are on the verge of Davis Cup history. All that separates the home side and a spot in its first ever Americas Group II final is one more victory, as El Salvador's doubles team retired hurt...
View ArticleMusings: Popular expectation and changes of policy I
As the Honourable Prime Minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, posits cogently in an extended essay recently published in Barbados Today, “The query for Barbados is this: can...
View ArticleFinding a satisfactory solution
Last week Patrick Bethel, the Chairman of the Barbados Sugar Industry Limited (BSIL), which is the umbrella body for private cane farmers, put forward the suggestion while on tour of the St....
View ArticleABC Drive taking a wholistic approach!
As noted by Delicia Sobers, the Programme Co-ordinator of the ABC Drive, as she spoke to The Barbados Advocate during the Prize-Giving Ceremony for the campaign, the young boys of the Milton Lynch...
View ArticleBCU’s new fund drive
THE Barbados Cycling Union (BCU) has rolled out a strategic plan aimed at restoring the world standing that local cycling once held particularly during the Barry Forde era. On Friday, long-serving...
View ArticleBarbados is an underrated sovereign - Euromoney
Recent rating agency downgrades seem to underestimate the underlying strengths of the Barbadian economy, Euromoney magazine said in its 2014 guide to Barbados released during the week ending April 4....
View ArticleBarbados recall Fidel Edwards
Bridgetown (Barbados), March 26 (IANS/CMC) Sidelined pacer Fidel Edwards has been recalled to the Barbados squad for its 5th round WICB first-class match against Jamaica at Sabina Park in Kingston...
View ArticleCaribbean Island of Barbados To Get Waste-To-Energy Plant
One day soon the Caribbean island of Barbados will have part of its electricity needs supplied by a waste-to-energy plant. Cahill Energy, based in Guernsey, announced the signing of an agreement with...
View ArticleBarbados Virtual HIV Research Unit Provides Access To Caribbean Data
BRIDGETOWN, April 4 (BERNAMA-NNN-PRENSA LATINA) -- Barbados has launched a Virtual HIV Research Unit (VHRU) as it seeks to better understand and address issues related to HIV/AIDS.
View ArticleBarbados leads El Salvador 2-1 in Davis Cup
Barbados leads El Salvador 2-1 heading into today's final day of action in the BNP Paribas Davis Cup Americas Group Two tie at the National Tennis Centre. Darian King and Haydn Lewis won yesterday's...
View ArticleBarbados in finals
History was made yesterday when the Barbados Davis Cup team advanced to the third and final round of the BNP Paribas Davis Cup Americas Group 2 Competition after defeating El Salvador 4-1 at the...
View ArticleDuty to be fair
BARBADOS HAS PLEDGED to do what it could to help bring Venezuela’s unrest to an end. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart told the mid-year meeting of the Inter-American Press Association at Hilton Barbados...
View ArticleJeremy Clarkson's wife Frances Cain holidays with handsome stranger
But Frances Cain, the Top Gear presenter's wife, seems to have swapped her old model for a new one with improved bodywork as she holidays in Barbados with a handsome man. The blonde looked at ease with...
View ArticleCanadian shot in Barbados robbery kept alive by wife
A Canadian couple has a harrowing story to tell after masked men broke into their Caribbean vacation home and fired a single shot during a struggle. As Jonathan Hubble lay bleeding from a gunshot wound...
View ArticleNational culinary team picked
THE Barbados team has been chosen for the 2014 Taste of the Caribbean competition, which will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, Florida from June 28 to July 2. Barbados currently holds the...
View Article