Barbadians are not happy with Government’s habit of acting without consulting the public who elected it. That was the assessment of Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne during his Reply to the

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Workers who cleaned the beaches of Sargassum Seaweed will receive wages out of the $43.3 million received by the Ministry of Environment and National Beautification. Recently during continuing debate on

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Trinidad and Tobago Red Force have wiped out Barbados Pride’s lead, sitting four runs ahead at 90 without loss by the tea interval on Day One of their regional four-day

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PORT OF SPAIN – The Trinidad and Tobago government Wednesday expressed its disappointment at the decision of the United Kingdom (UK) government to impose with immediate effect, a visa requirement

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It is costing Government $5 million for the armour stones being used to reconstruct the breakwater at the Bridgetown Harbour. That was confirmed recently as the Ministry of Tourism and

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The Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment needs $36.9 million to cover the engaging of several firms which investigated the data breach at the Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA) and

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Former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein appeared Wednesday in the New York County Courthouse in Manhattan to seek a speedier retrial on rape and sexual assault charges. Weinstein’s retrial is scheduled to start on

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Barbados Pride is 68-7 at the lunch interval on Day One of their regional four-day first-class match against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force at Kensington Oval. West Indies One-Day International

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President of the Barbados Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Association, Terry Hope, has expressed concern that not enough is being done to educate Barbadians about the degenerative disease, which affects the central

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Eighteen years after the tragic Shalom Apartment building collapse at Arch Cot, Brittons Hill, St Michael, which claimed the lives of a family of five, Government has reached out and

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