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What exactly does the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have in mind regarding changes to Dam B? Apparently we’ll have to wait until a Thursday, September 15th meeting in Jasper

Prominent youth activist Roger Husbands says some of the members of violent gangs are among the island’s school population.He has therefore called on law enforcement officials and the Ministry of Education to ensure the bloodshed recently seen on the streets does not make its way into educational institutions when the new term begins in another two weeks.“One of my fears now is that school is about to start back and you have young gangsters and you have young guys who are actually running ga...

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...

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...

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...

Although insisting that the Central Bank has not surpassed its legal limits of financing the Government through “printing money”, regional economist Marla Dukharan has advised the Mia Mottley administration to put “urgent emphasis” on reigning in its deficit.Amid public discourse about whether the Central Bank was printing money, Dukharan stressed that was one of the roles of that institution, and all indicators pointed to it being done within the parameters of the Central Bank Act.“Th...

People who currently contribute to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) could be affected by its impending reform.That is the view of Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Professor Justin Robison.He told Barbados TODAY that while the National Insurance Fund is not in crisis now, Barbadians who presently contribute to the NIS could possibly still feel the impacts of any reform.On Wednesday, during a national press conference, it was reveale...

The rising cost of fuel in Barbados has prompted the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) to call for a hike in allowances for public servants.Noting that allowances have not moved in over a decade, the union’s general secretary Richard Green and president Kimberly Agard argued that with gas prices here being among the highest in the world, it was necessary for travel benefits to be adjusted upwards.Their call came on the heels of another price hike that took effect on Sunday which saw the ...

St Paul’s Primary School student Madison Smith has accomplished her goal of scoring full marks in Mathematics in this year’s Barbados Secondary Schools Entrance Examination (BSSEE).She was one of just two students to get 100 in the subject, out of the 3 000-plus students who sat the examination.The Queen’s College-bound student told the media on Tuesday, after the results were released, that she spent many hours completing past examination papers, extra homework, and revision as she prepar...

Fifty single-parent families will get free counselling services under the Supreme Counselling for Personal Development’s new Family In Therapy (FIT) programme which aims to provide a holistic approach to addressing challenges in the home.Supreme Counselling’s Chief Executive Officer Shawn Clarke said that in addition to providing individual and group intervention counselling, the programme will also teach single parents effective parenting tools and techniques for coping with and overcoming ...