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Proposals for two pot businesses, vacation rentals at the Wrigley Center downtown, and a neighborhood coffee and slider joint are slated to go before Port Huron planning commissioners on Tuesday.

Resurgence: This series of essays curated by the National Cultural Foundation's Literary Arts Officer, Karra Price, features the thoughts and commentaries of Barbadians immersed in various aspects of daily endeavour.   This essay examines the role played by the media during the height of the pandemic and the ways in which media practitioners embraced their responsibilities, while facing unchartered territory.  New normal. Post pandemic. Contact tracing. Self-isolation. Home quarantine. S...

(Stock Photo) The Ministry of Health and Wellness encourages the public to take note of the important COVID-19 contact numbers listed below.  Persons s ...

The public of Barbados is reminded of the No Weapons Policy being enforced at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Martindale’s Road, St. Michael and its external facilities of Enmore and Harrison’s Point. Individuals are not allowed to enter the facilities with any item that could be deemed an offensive weapon. This includes, but is not limited to pen knives, lighters, scissors and

The QEH wishes for members of the public to be aware of the updated mask wearing policy at its main facility on Martindale’s Road, as well as the Harrison’s Point, Enmore and Belleville facilities. This represents a partial relaxation of the mask-wearing protocols existing during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mask-wearing: • Is highly recommended but not mandatory for visitors, patients

The future of the Harrison Point Isolation Centre is yet to be decided, but a proposal is on the table for it to be converted to an end-of-life care facility. While COVID-19 patients are still being treated at the St Lucy location, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr the Most Honourable Jerome Walcott said that with millions having been spent to

‘F’ is for foolishness and that’s what Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds suggests the leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Dr Ronnie Yearwood is saying when he gives the Mia Mottley government a failing grade.He delivered a scathing rebuke of Yearwood’s recent ‘failing grade’ criticism of the performance of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) government over the last few years. The DLP leader said Barbados was no better off than when the BLP took over ...

Senior Medical Officer of Health Dr Anton Best is reporting a slight increase in COVID-19 cases in Barbados as he updated the country on the lingering presence of the pandemic.“Up to December 18. There is a slight increase in the COVID-19 cases in terms of the numbers of new infections, in terms of the positivity rates,” Dr Best revealed on Wednesday during a press conference with Chief Medical Officer Dr The Most Honourable Kenneth George.“In the week 12 December to 18 December we diagnos...

If more Barbadians considered the number of institutions and businesses who are in possession of detailed personal and sensitive information about us, they would take the matter of cyber-attacks more seriously.This week, we learned from officials of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), our primary health care institution, that it had been attacked by hackers, who succeeded in crippling some aspects of the hospital’s operations.If that was not bad enough, we later learned that the attack had als...

A mixed-use development off Route 28 in Harrison is expected to move forward in the spring after several years sitting dormant. Brian Clark, consultant for R&Z Harrison Properties, said site work and infrastructure are scheduled to begin on Harrison Point, a 162-acre development near the Tarentum interchange of the expressway