(Jamaica Observer) The Barbados health ministry yesterday issued a public apology to Sandals Barbados, saying that three people detained by the police for alleged breaches of COVID-19 protocols had no connection with the resort chain.
(Barbados Nation) Effective yesterday to January 14, Barbados will be under curfew from midnight until 5 a.m.
(Barbados Nation) Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George has delisted Sandals Barbados Resort and Spa as a designated quarantine hotel effective January 5, 2021, and three tourists have been held for questioning by police, according to a media statement on Tuesday.
(Barbados Nation) Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines were warned to stay away from La Soufriere volcano after increased seismic activity was detected in the dome over the weekend.
(Barbados Nation) The management of Arawak Cement Plant yesterday issued a statement in relation to the death of employee Brian Moore on Monday.
(Barbados Nation) Flights from the United Kingdom (UK) will not be banned at this time.
(Barbados Nation) The days of having an Auditor General’s report that highlights a myriad of accounting inconsistencies and financial irregularities in Government departments, may soon be at an end.
(Barbados Nation) By April next year, Barbados could, for the first time, have a national minimum wage along with fixed amounts for different sectors.
(Barbados Nation) Cheers and applause erupted from the crowd, conch shells were blown and the sound of drums reverberated across The City yesterday when the 207-year-old statue of British Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was finally hoisted for its departure from Bridgetown.
(Barbados Nation) Police are still on the lookout for Sherwin Parks and Shanice Wickham.
(Barbados Nation) More electric buses are coming next month. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy, Andrew Gittens, said it was all part of a US$30 million loan with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the second phase of the Sustainable Energy Investment Programme.
(Barbados Nation) The protest action by some churches against the recognition of same-sex civil unions appears to be gaining steam as hundreds took part in the third such march.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados is in line to receive another US$90 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has given Government’s economic reform programme a passing grade.
(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley last night rubbished rumours she had fallen ill and collapsed at Government Headquarters, on Bay Street, St Michael.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ ten-year goal of becoming 100 per cent green energy-dependent is looking increasingly doable, as Barbados Light & Power (BL&P) is reporting a 10-megawatt increase in just one year from renewable energy suppliers feeding into the grid.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados will pay for its students to get a review of their Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) grades, says Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.
(Barbados Nation) Canada was placed in the category of high risk in the latest update of Barbados travel protocols effective yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda, have started operating the CARICOM Travel Bubble, with the hope of resuscitating the travel and tourism sectors.
(Jamaica Star) Barbados has announced its intention to become a republic and remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state by November next year.
(Barbados Nation) Three men were remanded when they appeared in the District “A” Magistrates Court on murder and arson charges yesterday morning.
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