Norma Holder News Today

The Performing Arts Hall at the Barbados Community College (BCC) was inundated with sweet music recently. This is the time of year when students show off their…

The Antigua & Barbuda Hotels and Tourism Association on April 27, at its bi-annual General Meeting, announced the new Board of Directors to govern the Association for the period 2023 – 2025.  The announcement came following a nomination and voting process where sixteen members (16) of the Association presented themselves…

It has become almost cliché to say that Barbados has very few resources apart from its human capital and the island’s natural beauty. Those two have been combined as critical inputs in sustaining our main economic driver – tourism.Buttressing our human resources has been our educational system, which is largely supported by a public policy in which tax payers shoulder the cost whether the recipients are from wealthy families, or they are from dirt poor origins.The majority of Barbadians hav...

A steady flow of Barbadians filed past the casket of Dr Jean Holder earlier today, as the body of the late Barbadian and Caribbean tourism and hospitality expert lay in repose at the Jean and Norma Holder Hospitality Institute and Hotel PomMarine. The facility was renamed in June last year after Holder and his late wife Norma Holder who both worked extensively in the fields of culture, education, hospitality and tourism. …

Following is a statement from Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on the passing of Dr Jean Holder.