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Legislation is coming to deal with the illegal importation of pets, says Minister of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Security, Indar Weir.Describing recent pictures of a python in the Newton Christ Church area as evidence of “reckless behaviour” Weir insisted that legislation was necessary to tackle the business of illegally importing animals and putting lives at risk.“Innocent people can very well find themselves in danger because persons who are prepared to beat the system will go to a...

Download logoFaced with the effects of the Covid-19 crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) designed and implemented a

Download logo Faced with the effects of the Covid-19 crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) designed and implemented a project under the Technical Cooperation Program (TCP) with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. This is the Support Project for the Plan to Mitigate the Impacts of Covid-19 on the […]

The scene at Lawrence T. Gay Memorial School was of chaos and confusion on Wednesday morning as students and teachers were relocated to three churches pending more investigations by the Ministry of Health into ongoing environmental concerns at the school.When a team from Barbados TODAY visited in the morning, parents complained about the lack of preparation for the move and expressed concern there were not enough buses to transport the students to Sharon Moravian Church, Church of Christ The Kin...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has called for effective and pragmatic strategies to address the raging illegal mining activities (galamsey) in the country. Professor Paul Pinnock Bosu, Director General of CSIR, who made the call, said illegal mining activities were not only affecting the country’s forests and…

Download logoFrom 19 to 23 September 2022, the Regional Animal Health Centre (RAHC) organized the 8th Annual Meeting of the West African Regional Animal

Seventy-three per cent of the homes damaged from Hurricane Elsa in July of 2021 have either been fully or partially repaired.Senior Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for infrastructural projects and town planning matters Dr William Duguid delivered this update in the House of Assembly on Tuesday, as he tabled an amendment to the Catastrophe Fund Act.“Of those 1746 houses, between the Urban Development Commission, Rural Development Commission and National Housing ...

The use of renewable energy technology in agricultural production will become more accessible to farmers thanks to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Government of Mexico and the Government of Barbados.

“Many of the children we welcome here are undernourished,” says Simone Rego, a Brazilian teacher who runs Academia Carolinas, a small, self-managed socio-cultural centre on the outskirts of São (...)

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