Barbados News

(Barbados Nation) – A major Barbados insurance industry merger pursued since 2019 has been completed.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian LIAT workers who last week appealed to Prime Minister Mia Mottley through the office of the Opposition Leader, will be receiving a one-off gift of Bds$2 000 and a plan is being put in place for them to receive assistance over the long term.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbadian former employees of LIAT 1974 Limited are at the end of their tether.

(Barbados Nation) Moments before being sentenced yesterday, Donville Inniss delivered a lengthy and passionate plea in a United States Federal Court in New York, saying that for the past 32 months he had endured public humiliation, immeasurable pain, financial ruin, poor health and shattered relationships.

A former Minister of Industry and elected member of Parliament of Barbados was sentenced today to two years in prison for his role in a scheme to launder bribe payments from a Barbadian insurance company through bank accounts in New York, according to a release from the US Department of Justice.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians were last night given a little more freedom to move about, play and do their business.

(Barbados Nation) The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) said in a bulletin on its Facebook Page yesterday that there was another explosive eruption of the La Soufriere Volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines at 4:49 p.m.

(Barbados Nation) CASTRIES – Caribbean teachers objected to the Carib-bean Examinations Council (CXC) decision to conduct the CSEC and CAPE examinations as “a full-blown exercise” this year.

(Barbados Nation) Conman and thief Ricardo Cortez Browne has an unenviable record when it comes to appearances before the law courts.

(Barbados Nation) Deputy Prime Minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG), Montgomery Daniel said the agriculture sector is non-existent on the eastern side of the La Soufriere volcano, which erupted last Friday.

(Barbados Nation) The Grantley Adams International Airport will remain closed until noon, Wednesday, April 14, due to the ongoing ash fall resulting from the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent.

(Barbados Nation) The West and North of Barbados was hard hit by the falling ash as a result of the eruption of La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

(Barbados Nation) The number of COVID-19 deaths moved to 44 after the passing of a 52-year-old Barbadian man on Tuesday, April 6.

(Barbados Government Information Service) – Over 60 000 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 up to Friday as part of the National Vaccination Programme.

(Barbados Nation) A 51-year-old Barbadian man was shot and killed in Chicago’s West Side on Sunday morning.

(Barbados Government Information Service) The Vaccination Medical Committee of the Ministry of Health and Wellness has advised that the efficacy or effectiveness of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 is greater if it is administered 10 to 12 weeks after the first dose.

(Barbados Nation) Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams is promising a full investigation into an incident at the Government Industrial School (GIS) where a picture was reportedly taken of a nude 14-year-old girl in a cell.

(Barbados Nation) The shocking image of a 14-year-old girl, lying naked on a cement floor in a solitary confinement cell at the Government Industrial School (GIS), has so angered a board member that she has vowed to take action against the school and, by extension, Government.

(Barbados Nation) On Tuesday morning, Kleisha Thomas was unable to reach her father on the phone.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said Government received 5 000 doses of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines from Guyana yesterday and expects 33 600 through the COVAX Facility soon.