The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) has slashed the cost of stalls for vendors at some Crop Over events and given free spaces to those disadvantaged by the new Grand Kadooment route. Chief executive officer (CEO) of the NCF, Carol Roberts-Reifer, revealed this yesterday on Starcom Network’s Fireworks radio programme. She said stall spaces go on sale from Monday for Pandemonium (National Botanical Gardens), Grand Kadooment (ABC Highway to National Stadium), …
More effective legislation is needed to prosecute people who engage in elder abuse. This was one of the recommendations coming out of Brasstacks Sunday on Starcom Network yesterday where the issue was examined prior to World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on Wednesday. The panel featured acting director of the National Assistance Board (NAB) Colleen Walcott, president of the Barbados Association of Retired Persons, Marilyn Rice-Bowen, attorney and convenor of the …
“Armageddon is upon the world,” exclaimed a rather animated lady. “This world will soon be no more,” she submitted. “This war in Ukraine is the final battle that was talked about in the Bible,” sh.
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is all for complete reform of the child justice system and remains impatient and unhappy about the controversy surrounding the Government Industrial School (GIS). But she’s willing to let a review of the current environment at the girls’ section in Barrows, St Lucy be complete and whatever recommendations made be the start of such reform. Speaking on Starcom Network’s Down To Brass Tacks yesterday, Mottley …
The Government and its economic advisers will be in “deep consultation” for the next two months as it decides on the next financial partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley told the country yesterday. Mottley was a special guest speaker on Starcom Network’s call-in radio programme Down To Brass Tacks, where she revealed her administration’s cautious moves less than a week after IMF officials in …