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Too long to a minimum wage – Atherley Article by December 17, 2020 The Mia Mottley-led administration has been criticized for its tardiness in moving towards a National Minimum Wage. And Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley has suggested that the recent announcement that a minimum wage would be in place by April next year was a ploy by the Prime Minister to silence the voices of workers. “That it has taken a popularly-elected administration over 30 months to initiate...

Get the Apps Home / Local News / Governor Cuomo signs law limiting arrest of Caribbean nationals in state court houses Governor Cuomo signs law limiting arrest of Caribbean nationals in state court houses Article by December 16, 2020 SOURCE: CMC – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law a measure that limits the circumstances in which officers from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency can arrest Caribbean and other nationals on immig...

C-Note to deliver Local officials are hoping that a new regional music database to be... Aiming for new heights This is the second in a two-part series looking at vending in... Talk more One regional government minister, who has admitted to refusing bribes,... Changing face of vending Today, we pres...

December 17, 2020 With a new government coming to power in the US, a pro-Venezuelan campaigner has called for open dialogue between Washington and Caracas after months of civil unrest and economic stagnation that has forced thousands of Venezuelans to seek refuge in neighbouring Caribbean and South American nations. David Denny, General Secretary for the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, told journalists Wednesday the incoming Joe Biden administration should be more than w...

Four more visitors tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. One of them, a 47-year-old man, arrived on American Airlines on December 13, while the other three, all women, aged 29, 30 and 71, arrived on British Airways on December 14. They were asymptomatic and tested positive on their second tests. The results were the only positives from among 922 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. Four persons were released from the Harrison Point isolation facility, bringing the...

‘Chocolate man’ caught stealing sweets Article by December 16, 2020 Convicted chocolate thief Dwayne Elmore Cumberbatch believes the police are out to get him even though he was caught in the act on CCTV. The 33-year-old, of no fixed place of abode, made the allegation today when he appeared before Magistrate Alison Burke. At first, he denied stealing eight boxes of chocolates worth $47.60 belonging to Abubaker Bhana on December 13 but had a change of heart moments later...

Rival bank wins Republic event Article by December 16, 2020 It was all action at the 2020 Republic Bank Barbados Adventure Race (BAR) Corporate Challenge recently. Twenty-six teams, representing several local companies, each comprising four members, ran, jumped, lifted, crawled and climbed their way through the obstacle course constructed at Peg Farm and Nature Reserve at Easy Hall Plantation, St. Joseph. In the end, CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank’s Dream Chasers w...

Embarrassed by the CXC dilemma Article by December 16, 2020 Defender of children rights Faith Marshall-Harris is describing the ongoing Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) fiasco which is affecting thousands of students in Barbados and across the Caribbean as a travesty. The only UNICEF-appointed Children Champion in the Caribbean Marshall-Harris said there is an urgent need to rectify the controversy which surrounds alleged discrepancies in the grading system which has led ...

December 15, 2020 An “aggressive” teen who injured a minor when he threw a rock through a window will spend the next few days on remand at Dodds. Nineteen-year-old Damario Addison Brathwaite, of Sargeant Village, Christ Church pleaded guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding the five-year-old on December 12. According to the facts read by Sergeant Edwin Pinder, lawmen responded to a report of a dispute at the address around 10:35 a.m. While standing in the living room at the ...

Get the Apps Visitor arrivals a fraction of “normal” seasonal arrivals, says airport official Article by December 15, 2020 Barbados can expect close to 20,000 visitors to fly into the island this month, significantly down from its monthly average of well over 200,000. That’s according to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Inc., Hadley Bourne who shared his outlook with Barbados TODAY this afternoon. According to Bourne, the ...