BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados government announced plans on Monday to establish a national cybersecurity strategy to provide the island with “a robust cyber defence” as it seeks to deal with crime. Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite, addressing the first annual conference of the Department of Public Prosecutions, said the new framework would include a revision […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has announced that it will be improving how it supports youth development in its Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs). According to a release from the CDB on Monday , it has approved US$287,000 for the development of a CDB Youth Policy and Operational Strategy (YPOS) — a consultative process […]
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – A senior official of the Canadian Tourism Research Institute (CTRI) said over two million Canadians have visited the Caribbean for the first six months of this year, representing a 5.2 per cent increase over the corresponding period last year. Jennifer Hendry, senior research associate with the CTRI, was addressing delegates at […]
By Michael G-A. Lashley The members of the Canadian-Caribbean contingent to the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA XIII) in Barbados (August 17-27, 2017) found joy, success and professional benefits galore. This was the first contingent of Caribbean Diaspora artists (resident outside of the Caribbean region) ever to be officially invited to participate in CARIFESTA. […]
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart will be the keynote speaker at the tenth annual Errol Barrow memorial dinner to be held at The Estate Banquet and Event Centre in Scarborough on Saturday September 23. (Errol ” Dipper” Barrow was the first prime minister of Barbados. He founded the Democratic Labour Party and became its leader […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – After having to be rescheduled from Friday due to the passage of Tropical Storm Harvey, the official opening ceremony for CARIFESTA XIII took place on Sunday, with Barbados’ Minister of Culture Stephen Lashley declaring the festival open. The ceremony at the Kensington Oval here was preceded by a colourful parade of participating […]
By Lincoln DePradine The lawyer for a Barbadian-born refugee claimant, who spent months in jail despite not having any criminal charges or convictions, won’t say if his client’s treatment by Canadian immigration officials had anything to do with his ethnicity. “I don’t have any evidence and I can’t say for sure,’’ Subodh Bharati told The […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados won the Regional Under-15 tournament when they beat Trinidad and Tobago by 15 runs here on Friday. Needing just a point to clinch their fourth title, Barbados claimed full honours from the contest at North Stars in the rural northern parish of St Lucy, ending on 26.4 points. Leeward Islands, meanwhile, […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Thousands of Barbadians took to the streets of Bridgetown on Monday to urge Prime Minister Freundel Stuart to reconsider a recent tax increase that has sparked a string of protests by workers. The Barbados Private Sector Association and leading trade unions organized a joint march to demonstrate against the eight-percentage-point hike to […]
Caribbean Tales International Film Festival in association with the Consulate General of Barbados in Toronto will hold its media launch and “Public Festival Reveal” for 2017 and will present the Canadian premiere of A Caribbean Dream at the Royal Cinema, 608 College Street, Toronto, today (Thursday) starting at 6 p.m. A Caribbean Dream which has […]
