(Barbados Nation) Government will soon be setting up a new Constitution Review Commission, says Attorney General Dale Marshall, and he will be making recommendations about its membership to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.
(Barbados Nation) Moments after being sworn in for a second time as Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley said she would spend this weekend fine-tuning a new Cabinet.
(Reuters) – Preliminary results trickled in late yesterday from the first general election Barbados has held since becoming a republic last year, with initial returns strongly favouring the Barbados Labor Party (BLP) of Prime Minister Mia Mottley.
(Barbados Nation) The 2022 General Election will be the country’s first in a COVID-19 environment and the chairman of the Electoral and Boundaries Commission (EBC) has cautioned there will be delays that could lead to a late announcement of results tomorrow night.
(Barbados Nation) – The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board has given the green light for Barbados to immediately receive another $48 million, which would bring to $850 million the amount of IMF funding Government has received since 2018.
(Barbados Nation) – Far from backing down, nurses who are staging industrial action will be ramping up their efforts, says Head of the Unity Workers’ Union (UWU), Senator Caswell Franklyn.
(Barbados Nation) With four convictions for assault with intent to rape, a previous 15-year jail term for rape and two new acts committed 16 days apart, there was no doubt, said Justice Randall Worrell, that Kinchar Kenny Lavonne Mascoll was a serious danger to society.
(Barbados Nation) Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) president Dr Gene Leon is urging Barbados and other regional countries to intensify their efforts to reduce corruption.
BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – Barbados ditched Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic today with its first-ever president and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean island.
BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles flew to Barbados as the Caribbean nation prepared for a celebration today marking the founding of a republic and the removal of the queen as sovereign, cutting imperial ties some 400 years after English ships first arrived.
(Barbados Nation) The man who was charged with the murder of Samara Bristol was remanded when he appeared in the Supreme Court before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes yesterday morning.
(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley is hitting back at critics who questioned the reason for moving to a parliamentary republic and reopening the Golden Square Freedom Park amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Barbados Nation) Come on home!
That’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s call to Barbadians living in the diaspora who want to help the country move forward.