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Strengthening The Financial System To Meet The Challenge Of Climate Change, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard At "The Financial System & Climate Change: A Regulatory Imperative" Hosted By The Center For American Progress, Washington, D.C. Date 18/12/2020 I want to thank the Center for American Progress for inviting me to join you in discussing climate change and the U.S. financial system.1 Let me start by noting these are my own views and do not necessarily reflect those of the Feder...

Get the Apps Home / Local News / Governor Cuomo signs law limiting arrest of Caribbean nationals in state court houses Governor Cuomo signs law limiting arrest of Caribbean nationals in state court houses Article by December 16, 2020 SOURCE: CMC – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law a measure that limits the circumstances in which officers from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency can arrest Caribbean and other nationals on immig...

C-Note to deliver Local officials are hoping that a new regional music database to be... Aiming for new heights This is the second in a two-part series looking at vending in... Talk more One regional government minister, who has admitted to refusing bribes,... Changing face of vending Today, we pres...

Four more visitors tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. One of them, a 47-year-old man, arrived on American Airlines on December 13, while the other three, all women, aged 29, 30 and 71, arrived on British Airways on December 14. They were asymptomatic and tested positive on their second tests. The results were the only positives from among 922 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. Four persons were released from the Harrison Point isolation facility, bringing the...

Embarrassed by the CXC dilemma Article by December 16, 2020 Defender of children rights Faith Marshall-Harris is describing the ongoing Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) fiasco which is affecting thousands of students in Barbados and across the Caribbean as a travesty. The only UNICEF-appointed Children Champion in the Caribbean Marshall-Harris said there is an urgent need to rectify the controversy which surrounds alleged discrepancies in the grading system which has led ...

December 15, 2020 An “aggressive” teen who injured a minor when he threw a rock through a window will spend the next few days on remand at Dodds. Nineteen-year-old Damario Addison Brathwaite, of Sargeant Village, Christ Church pleaded guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding the five-year-old on December 12. According to the facts read by Sergeant Edwin Pinder, lawmen responded to a report of a dispute at the address around 10:35 a.m. While standing in the living room at the ...

Get the Apps Visitor arrivals a fraction of “normal” seasonal arrivals, says airport official Article by December 15, 2020 Barbados can expect close to 20,000 visitors to fly into the island this month, significantly down from its monthly average of well over 200,000. That’s according to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Inc., Hadley Bourne who shared his outlook with Barbados TODAY this afternoon. According to Bourne, the ...

Tough time for minimum wage talk Article by December 15, 2020 Chief Executive Officer of the Small Business Association (SBA) Senator Dr Lynette Holder believes a national minimum wage is needed in Barbados, but warns that it will be “a difficult conversation” for most companies to have at this time given the severe fallout they are experiencing as a result of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic. Holder told Barbados TODAY that while companies were established primarily to ma...

December 15, 2020 In a stark symbol of the unrest swirling about the state of industrial relations, the acting general secretary of the nation’s public workers union heads to retirement while her predecessor claims unfair dismissal. With just over two weeks to go before National Union of Public Workers’ Acting General Secretary Delcia Burke goes on retirement leave, the union is still mulling a successor. At the same time, Burke’s predecessor, Roslyn Smith, has now taken the uni...

BMF releases 2021 calendar Article by December 15, 2020 More than 50 events planned by the Barbados Motoring Federation’s (BMF) seven sporting member clubs are listed on the provisional 2021 calendar released on Monday. After a year in which many events were cancelled or postponed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the motor sport community – in common with the memberships of island clubs in many other disciplines – are hoping that the effects of COVID-19 will st...