Government should be testing its proposed projects; if not it runs the risk of wasting morning, Opposition Senator Karina Goodridge told the Senate yesterday. As the Chamber debated the Appropriation

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Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Chris Sinckler is defending Government’s financial management practices while emphasising the need for flexibility. Speaking in the Senate yesterday as debate

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Barbados says it is monitoring Chikungunya (ChikV) cases in the Caribbean after the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported an outbreak in Suriname, with more than 1 100 cases and

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Barbados’ visual arts sector has seen significant growth over the past decade with more galleries, exhibition spaces and artist led initiatives emerging throughout the island. However, artists and curators say

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A pedestrian succumbed to injuries at the scene after being involved in a collision with a vehicle around 7:25 p.m. Tuesday along Alleynedale Road, St Lucy. According to police, initial

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Local Ice Cream Manufacturer BICO Limited is reporting a financial loss despite growing its revenue over the past year. This is due to persistently high energy costs and the escalating

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Wide forward Thierry Gale is returning to the Barbados football team set-up for the first time in two years as part of a 17-member squad for the CONCACAF series in

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After their disappearance at sea more than a week ago, the fate of missing fishermen Zhicai Su and Othneil Harewood remains uncertain. They ventured out to sea on Saturday, March

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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines has declared a national energy emergency over the threat posed by the US-Israel war with Iran to its supply of oil and its energy security.

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The grandfather who coldly confessed to killing his 12-year-old granddaughter and rolling her body into a gully in Jackson, St Michael, 24 years ago, was sentenced to 13 years in

Continue readingGrandfather to serve just over two years