Government’s rent-to-own housing project is still operational, says Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland. He gave that response after queries from some people on social media who questioned

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Alphabet’s Google proposed new limits to revenue-sharing agreements with companies including Apple which make Google’s search engine the default on their devices and browsers. The suggestions stem from the US

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Digital transformation has grown tremendously regionally for governments, the private sector, and customers in general. It has made the accessibility of public services, e-commerce, investments, education, and so on, easy,

Continue readingMore cybersecurity awareness ‘needed’

The Salvation Army continued to spread cheer and goodwill through its annual Christmas luncheon, feeding up to 400 people yesterday. From noon, the team of volunteers worked tirelessly to feed those

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Although the United States Centre for Disease and Control (CDC) has issued a travel health advisory for the presence of Oropouche virus in Barbados, there is no public health emergency

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At least one person has died after a car plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, police have said, according to local public broadcaster MDR. Between

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Government may not be offering a VAT-free day this Yuletide season, but at least two stores are giving their customers savings of 17.5 per cent, the same rate as the

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Scene of an accident at Bank Hall, St Michael, near the Abundant Life Assembly. Barbados Fire Service and Emergency Ambulance Service on the scene. A lone male occupant in the

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MADRID – A Madrid court has sentenced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Rodrigo Rato to almost five years in prison for corruption offences, the court said on Friday. Rato,

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ZAGREB  – A seven-year-old girl has been killed and eight others have been injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in the Croatian capital Zagreb. The 19-year-old attacker, believed to

Continue readingSeven-year-old killed in stabbing at Zagreb school