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There could be a chartered flight between Bridgetown and at least one African nation in the coming months, Prime Minister Mia Mottley has announced.At the same time, President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Professor Benedict Oramah, who said there could also be a routine service within the next five years, pledged financial support for the establishment of a regular air link between the two regions and indicated that the region could become home to African-based commercial bank...

Pine Hill Dairy (PHD) is negotiating a subsidy with Government in an effort to revive the local dairy industry which has been plagued with several challenges for years.Shafia London, country manager of Banks Holding Limited, the parent company of PHD, told Barbados TODAY in an interview that Government’s intervention in the industry was urgently needed to pull the sector out of hot water.Although London did not disclose any details about what PHD had proposed, she said she was satisfied with t...

Barbadians will have a say on the route Grand Kadooment revellers will take for Crop Over 2023.Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Senator Dr Shantal Munro-Knight today announced that all stakeholders in the Crop Over Festival would be given an opportunity, through the use of a survey, to share their views on the new route.Her announcement has garnered some general support from key stakeholders, though president of the Entertainment Association of Barbados (EAB) Rudy Maloney said he hopes...

United States (US) representative Mark Green has warned Barbados and other Caribbean countries that accepting investment opportunities from economic powerhouse China would come at a price.He issued the warning on Thursday as he promised a deepening of security links between the US and the region to transform island economies.Green’s advice came amidst rising tensions between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as a Beijing invasion of Taiwan looms.It also came against...

Retired actuary Charles Herbert has raised an alarm over the major decline in the number of people contributing to the National Insurance (NIS), as he questioned Government’s rationale for continuing to pay non-contributory pensions.“I don’t really understand the room for non-contributory pension. That doesn’t seem to be accountable to the public,” he said on Tuesday night during an Institute of Chartered Account of Barbados (ICAB) webinar on Our NIS - The Way Forward.The latest review...

Prime Minister Mia Mottley wants to see Speightstown become the centre of arts and heritage in the region.She made her intentions known at the official reopening of Archer’s Hall Design Centre Inc. in Speightstown, St Peter on Wednesday evening, almost two years after the establishment was extensively damaged by a fire at a neighbouring business.Mottley said Government had embarked on several projects aimed at enhancing “this small quaint town that really ought to be the centre of arts and h...

Parliament should soon be considering legislation aimed at bringing much needed assistance to people with disabilities.This promise was made by Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs, Kirk Humphrey, during an open day for Camp Reach at the National Disabilities Unit on Wednesday.Speaking to the media at the camp, where 25 disabled children are being hosted during the summer break, the minister said that the advisory board tasked with outlining ways to improve the lives of disabled pers...

Attorney Ernest Winston Jackman who was convicted of stealing and using over half a million dollars of a client’s money says he is “embarrassed and ashamed” to be appearing before the law court in this “capacity and position”.The 67-year-old St Philip resident made the declaration as he addressed Madam Justice Pamela Beckles on Monday.Jackman has been on remand at Dodds prison since May 31 after being found guilty by a jury of stealing $678 414.75 from HEJ Limited between June 23, 2006...

Chairman of the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) retired Justice Christopher Blackman has blasted some lawyers for their lethargy which has delayed the work of the ERT.However, Justice Blackman has given the assurance that the unavailability of those lawyers had not stopped the tribunal’s work , which has centred around case management.He told Barbados TODAY the tribunal had been meeting via Zoom, hearing matters as recently as this week.But he complained that certain attorneys were stalling t...

The Barbados Association of Retailers, Vendors and Entrepreneurs (BARVEN) has stepped in to fight for farmers at River Plantation, St Philip whose land is being taken away by the Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC).President Alister Alexander on Thursday instructed the farmers not to stop their operations and assured them that his association would back them at all costs.“BARVEN will fight. We have no choice but to fight cause that is what we do – fight for ju...