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The Ministry of Health and Wellness is establishing a national climate change and health focal point unit.Minister Ian Gooding-Edghill made the announcement on Tuesday while delivering remarks at the 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference in Washington on the topic, Leveraging Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic to address the Region’s Mental Health Challenges for the Future.He indicated that one of the unit’s first tasks will be to develop and implement a framework for comprehensive v...

A plan to acquire and develop 18 parcels of land in the St Lawrence, Christ Church area has triggered concern among residents of that community and surrounding districts who are worried about how it will affect their homes and businesses.Spokesperson for the St Lawrence, Dover and Maxwell Association Adrian Donovan told Barbados TODAY the situation has prompted a town hall meeting for Saturday, which Member of Parliament for Christ Church South Ralph Thorne has confirmed he will attend.The meeti...

A young woman was given a three-year suspended sentence after she admitted to being the lookout during a burglary.Falicia Shauntell Browne’s sentence was ordered by Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell when she reappeared in the No. 4 Supreme Court earlier this week.Browne, of Sunrise Drive, Rices, St Philip and co-accused Akeem Griffith had been charged with entering the dwelling house of Everton Evelyn as trespassers between January 5 and 6, 2015 and stealing $27 000 worth of items including four...

Rashad Maynard today described the man who his brother is alleged to have killed as a “nuisance” who drank heavily and became aggressive.In fact, he said on the day his brother Raheim Hinds struck Michael Yearwood with a stone, Yearwood had “straight pulled” a bottle of rum and was armed with a cutlass.Hinds, of Phillip’s Road, Pinelands, St Michael, today pleaded not guilty to murdering Yearwood on March 26, 2015, when his trial got underway in the No.5A Supreme Court.Maynard, who was...

Fed up with a fellow ZR driver trying to prevent him from overtaking, Jerad Brathwaite took matters into his own hand.However, his actions landed him in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, where he admitted to slapping the complainant out of frustration.Brathwaite, of Brereton Village, St Philip, pleaded guilty to assaulting Chad Bishop on September 13, 2022, when the charge was read to him by Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes.In outlining the facts, prosecutor Sergeant Randolph Boy...

The Ministry of Tourism is in early discussions with key players in regional airlift to enhance Barbados’ connectivity with neighbouring Caribbean islands.Although she did not go into details about the talks between Barbados and regional aviation administrators, Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Senator Lisa Cummins told Barbados TODAY that Government was interested in exploring airlift possibilities with the Cayman Islands and the International Air Transport Association (IATA)....

It is quite baffling, that as a nation we project one reality when we know that on the ground, the average citizen sees the situation in a completely different vein.We speak to the issue of the return to full face-to-face classes in our schools since the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to introduce online teaching and then a hybrid process of education for the nation’s children.There is no denying that our children’s education has been harmed over the past two to three ...

Government is going back to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to get financing for a Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) plan 2.0.Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced on Friday that this time around, the arrangement would be for three years and once approved by the IMF, would unlock approximately US$130 million (BDS$260 million) in financing.She said entering another programme with the IMF – with the current four-year agreement concluding at month end – would also allow ...

Barbados will be telling the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that its deadline for transition to a global minimum corporate tax is way too short for this country to properly implement.Prime Minister Mia Mottley told a news conference on Friday that as a result, she and her Director of Finance Ian Carrington will be meeting with the OECD at its headquarters in the French capital Paris on Monday to argue this country’s case for more time, especially considering that ...

Prime Minister Mia Mottley is promising that Government will be working to make pharmaceuticals and other medical products more affordable for Barbadians, even if it has to resort to imposing price controls.She also announced that by next year, residents will know what plans the administration has to get them affordable access to health insurance.Mottley’s pledge to ensure savings on medical supplies – which she made without providing a timeline – comes just over a month after her administ...