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‘Waiting in vain’ Article by December 15, 2020 Months after being promised severance payments from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), dozens of former workers at the Cliff Restaurant are yet to be paid and vowed continued protests outside the benefits agency. On Monday, placard-bearing ex-workers gathered outside the Sir Frank Walcott Building at Culloden Road to protest under the watchful eyes of police. The group’s spokesman, Jerome Farley, later told Barbados TOD...

Tough time for minimum wage talk Article by December 15, 2020 Chief Executive Officer of the Small Business Association (SBA) Senator Dr Lynette Holder believes a national minimum wage is needed in Barbados, but warns that it will be “a difficult conversation” for most companies to have at this time given the severe fallout they are experiencing as a result of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic. Holder told Barbados TODAY that while companies were established primarily to ma...

December 15, 2020 In a stark symbol of the unrest swirling about the state of industrial relations, the acting general secretary of the nation’s public workers union heads to retirement while her predecessor claims unfair dismissal. With just over two weeks to go before National Union of Public Workers’ Acting General Secretary Delcia Burke goes on retirement leave, the union is still mulling a successor. At the same time, Burke’s predecessor, Roslyn Smith, has now taken the uni...

BMF releases 2021 calendar Article by December 15, 2020 More than 50 events planned by the Barbados Motoring Federation’s (BMF) seven sporting member clubs are listed on the provisional 2021 calendar released on Monday. After a year in which many events were cancelled or postponed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the motor sport community – in common with the memberships of island clubs in many other disciplines – are hoping that the effects of COVID-19 will st...

Barbados Today December 15, 2020 Police have identified  last night’s shooting victim as 36 year-old Canute Ward  of Darrell’s Hill St. Michael. Ward was shot and killed at Miller’s Road, Farm Road, St Peter. According to lawmen, they responded to a report of gunshots being heard in the said area around 9:40 p.m. On arrival, officers discovered the body of an adult male lying in a pathway.  He was later pronounced dead at the scene. Police are appealing to anyone with inform...

December 12, 2020 Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados Today. Cosy rooms packed with people, chatting, laughing, singing, and sharing food and drink for hours are traditional in the festive season. Unfortunately, they are also ideal for fuelling the pandemic, with scientists suggesting infections could easily double over the holiday period. So here are the key questions to ask about any fes...

SSA pushes back on union claims Article by December 15, 2020 The Sanitation Service Authority on Monday pushed back on allegations by the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) that the SSA has not been engaging workers on a number of pressing issues. In a statement, SSA board chairman Ramon Alleyne said: “It would be erroneous to suggest the SSA’s management has not engaged the SSA workers on their issues.” Last Friday, NUPW deputy General Secretary Wayne Walrond tol...

Barbados Today December 14, 2020 SOURCE: Guardian Google has suffered a worldwide outage, with failures reported across the company’s services, including Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube. Beginning at about 11.50am GMT, the outages appeared to have affected the vast majority of Google’s services, apart from search which operated largely unaffected. Despite the universal nature of the outages, the company’s automated systems reported no problems for any services for the first 3...

November 14, 2020 The latest episode involving the SeaDream Yacht Club cruiser is a reminder of not only the continued deadly danger posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but our desperate dependence on the tourism sector to revive our economy. The super luxury mega yacht’s owners took a major gamble this month to resume cruising under what they thought were extremely rigorous COVID-19 protocols, requiring crew and passengers to undergo multiple tests for the illness and instituting exten...