Team Barbados kept their eyes on the target to become victorious in the recent West Indies Fullbore Shooting Council’s short range competition in Barbados. Marlon King was named the top short range shooter and the winner of the Wogart Cup which was last won by a Barbadian in 1978. The event showcased the skills of […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbadians will be consulted on the issue decriminalizing marijuana and implementing fixed election dates and term limits for Prime Ministers under the new government. That was one of the disclosures made by Governor General Dame Sandra Mason as she delivered the Throne Speech yesterday, at the start of the new parliamentary term. […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – An emergency plan has been created to fix Barbados’ ailing economy, and it includes getting assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and suspending payments to external creditors as it restructures government debt. And while the strategy announced by Prime Minister Mia Mottley has received the full backing of the Social Partnership, […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Bishop Joseph Atherley of the Evangelical Holiness Christian Community Church, one of the 30 candidates who contributed to the Barbados Labour Party’s (BLP) clean sweep at the polls May 24 last, has been sworn in as Opposition Leader. But Atherley. says he has not had any falling out with the party on […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados –Prime Minister Mia Mottley has announced that in the absence of an official opposition, following her Barbados Labour Party’s 30-nil victory at the polls last week, the Constitution will be amended to allow for two Opposition Senators. She says the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) will be invited to choose two people to sit […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Less than 24 hours after she led her Barbados Labor Party (BLP) to victory in the May 24 general elections, Mia Amor Mottley, 52, was sworn in as Barbados eighth prime minister on Friday, joining a handful of Caribbean women who have lead governments in their respective countries. Mottley, who first entered […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbadians go to the polls today to elect a new government amid growing economic concerns and the possibility of choosing a woman for the first time to lead a government in this Caribbean Community (Caricom) country. “We have done this country proud over the last 10 years, we have had to govern […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Citing disrespect from the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart says if his Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is re-elected in the upcoming general election, his administration will leave the CCJ in its appellate jurisdiction. Stuart, who was speaking late Saturday at a political meeting in the parish of […]
By Lincoln DePradine Many Caribbean organizations worry about their future, with an ageing membership and relatively little youth involvement. The one exception is in Toronto’s Barbadian-Canadian community, which has just launched the youth-led “Bridge T.O.’’ Young people, born in Canada of Barbadian parents, make up the membership of Bridge T.O. “Our team is very passionate […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The incumbent Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and its main contender in the upcoming election launched their political campaigns over the weekend, with one outlining promises to fix the island’s economic and other social problems if successful in the May 24 poll, and the other pouring cold water on those promises and launching […]
