Barbados News

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ new series of banknotes is in circulation from today.

(Barbados Nation) Attorney Ernest Winston Jackman has been sentenced to 7  years for stealing his clients’ money and money laundering.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ economic progress relies on more than just the Government’s investment in capital projects, especially during these hard times.

(Barbados Nation) – A coalition of opposition political parties and civil society organisations, Friday said they planned to stage peaceful protests from this Thursday to stop the December 6 snap general election, insisting that no elections should be held in Dominica without electoral reform.

(Barbados Nation) – The UN’s main human rights agency is calling on the Dominican Republic to halt the deportations of Haitian migrants at a time of unrest in their country.

(Barbados Today) Member of Parliament for St Michael North West Neil Rowe appeared in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court yesterday where he was not required to plea to an indictable charge of rape.

(Barbados Nation) Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly, Neil Rowe was arraigned in the Oistins Court today, charged with having unlawful sexual intercourse with a female last month.

(Barbados Nation) Ex-Government Minister Donville Inniss has lost an appeal to overturn a U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said today that its staff has agreed on some $293 million in new financing for Barbados, including $183 million via a new trust fund created to help vulnerable middle-income and island countries.

(Barbados Nation) Caricom member states have been challenged to hold frank discussions on managed migration to support each other’s developmental priorities.

(Barbados Nation) Government will end the mask-wearing mandate and travel protocols related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at midnight on Thursday in Barbados.

(Barbados Nation) Government will end the mask-wearing mandate and travel protocols related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at midnight on Thursday in Barbados.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians can again apply for all categories of non-immigrant visas from the United States embassy in Wildey Business Park.

(Barbados Nation) Several acres of land at Fortress Hill, St Thomas, are being prepared to be used for the living quarters for the hundreds of Chinese workers who will be employed on the Scotland District road rehabilitation project.

(Barbados Nation) With the winter tourist season just two months away, one economist is warning that Barbados cannot afford to have gun violence derail what he believes will be a make-or-break season in terms of the country’s economic recovery.

(Barbados Nation) – Barbadians from all walks of life are being encouraged to back Government’s Barbados Optional Savings Scheme (BOSS) Plus bonds “no matter how small the investment”.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian academic and prominent social scientist in Canada, Professor Myrna Lashley, wants her birthplace to legalise prostitution, saying sex workers “need to be protected just like everyone else”.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has recorded its first confirmed case of monkeypox.

(Barbados Nation) – Emcee Mac Fingall has called it quits from the local stage as a host of calypso tent shows after 40 years.

(Barbados Nation) – Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BMCLA), Senator Shanika Roberts-Odle said the approval of its first nine licences to two Barbadian licensees was a great step for the island’s entrance into the sector.