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For the second time in six months the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) will have to fill the role of chief executive officer.That’s because current Chief Executive Officer (CEO)  Geoffrey Roach has announced that he will be stepping down from the position after only a short time in the role.A press release issued today stated that Roach made the disclosure during the BHTA’s recent Fourth Quarterly Meeting.Last May, then CEO Rudy Grant stepped down from the role after six years ...

Former minister responsible for culture and two-time calypso monarch John King is suggesting that Barbados gives the late calypso icon Singing Francine the recognition she deserves with a fitting memorial.King was among a number of local entertainers and creatives paying tribute on Friday to the Barbados-born Trinidad calypso queen, who passed away in the United States on Friday morning after suffering a heart attack.The 79-year-old Singing Francine, whose real name was Francine Edwards went to ...

General Secretary of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) Dennis DePeiza has charged that a plan is afoot to undermine the organisation and divide the local labour movement.Speaking during CTUSAB’s annual end-of-year press conference on Wednesday morning, he said it appeared the aim was to create “constructive chaos” by not acknowledging CTUSAB as the umbrella body for trade unions.If that is allowed to continue, DePeiza maintained, it had the potential ...

Firefighters are on the scene of a fire at an abandoned house at Fairholme, Christ Church. (more details as they come to hand.)

It took a 12-member jury just over an hour of deliberations to find Rommel Akeem Cummins guilty of murder.It was around 4:45 p.m. on Thursday evening that the jury delivered its decision.Cummins had pleaded not guilty to murdering Dave Archer on June 10, 2019. Archer, a former security guard on the MV DreamChaser was fatally shot while onboard the party vessel.After the verdict was delivered in the No. 3 Supreme Court, Justice Carlisle Greaves set March 2, 2023, as the date for sentencing.A pre-...

A noted criminologist and academic has warned that despite sanctions, new laws, and regulatory bodies, corruption around the world is not abating.Nikos Passas, a Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Northeastern University warned that too many people in high office and directors of companies are willing to “mislead auditors and regulators and falsify records”.Professor Passas made the disclosure during a keynote address on day one of the virtual Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)...

Good people can often face adversity and sometimes, they can find themselves doubting whether it really pays to do good or join the crowd looking on.Barbados’ latest youth hero is not a scholarship winner; she does not hail from one of the vaunted older secondary schools, neither does she come from a well-to-do family with wealth and social standing.However, she has qualities that Barbadians love and herald – a kind heart and care for others. She is 15-year-old Kerriesha Skeete, a student of...

The top brass of the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) is assuring Barbadians they will have enough pork this Christmas.In an interview with Barbados TODAY, president Henderson Williams and chief executive officer James Paul said there would be no shortages of either pork or pork products even though statistics point to a decline in pigs slaughtered at the island’s main processing facility, HIPAC Ltd in recent months.Williams, who is also the head of the Barbados Pig Farmers’ Association, ...

The Barbados Association of Muslim Ladies (BAML) and the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados are partnering in an initiative to assist the Ministry of Education to execute its school nutrition policy.The two organisations have been donating water coolers to schools across the island and, to date, 13 have received the receptacles.During a handing over ceremony on Wednesday at the St Martin’s-Mangrove Primary School, the latest beneficiary of the initiative, BAML youth ambassador Haania Bu...

Hundreds of Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) workers will have good reason to celebrate this Christmas with a share of just over $300 000 from Government.However, outspoken trade unionist and former Opposition senator Caswell Franklyn has described the payment as an attempt by Government to get SSA workers to stay with the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) with whom it is “more comfortable”.Chairman of the SSA Ramon Alleyne disclosed today that 601 SSA employees will be given $500 ea...