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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 ...

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...