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Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced plans to pay today’s descendants of a former British slave and plantation owner in Barbados.

In late April, news broke in Barbados that the Barbados Labour Party government, led by Prime Minster Mia Mottley, was planning to make a payment of some BD$ 8 million (US$ 4 million, GBP 3.2 million) to Richard Drax, the current owner of Drax Hall plantation, as part of the compulsory purchase of 50 acres…

Exclusive: Following widespread backlash, Bajan prime minister Mia Mottley has announced that the acquisition will be paused in light of public anger with the move and a public consultation will take place

Exclusive: Following widespread backlash, Bajan prime minister Mia Mottley has announced that the acquisition will be paused in light of public anger with the move and a public consultation will take place

The politician owns a 250-hectare (617-acre) sugar plantation on the Caribbean island that was built by his ancestors in the 17th century.

(Stock Photo) On 23 May 2023, the Honourable the House of Assembly committed the Child Protection Bill, 2023 and the Child Justice Bill, 2023, to a Joint Se ...

It should be obvious to onlookers there is more than meets the eye concerning Allan Kinch rumble with government and developments at Savvy on Bay on Bay Street. A recent pronouncement on the matter by Attorney General Dale Marshall that two of three tracts of land owned by Kinch will be acquired by the government…

Thirty-seven-year-old Rashida Yearwood had just left her home yesterday morning when she turned back to get her name tag for work. The mother of five was shocked to find the house on fire. By then, the flames were too intense for anything to be saved and the three-bedroom house at Mayers Road, My Lord’s Hill, St Michael, burned flat around 8 a.m., leaving seven people homeless. Yearwood, who has lived …

Having constructed 900 houses one year after launching the governments 10,000 homes programme, Housing Minister Dwight Sutherland said a target of 2,000 has been set for 2023/24. “We intend to build 2,000 houses this financial year,” he said, noting that construction has already begun at Lancaster, Colleton and Poole in St John, while several other sites have been identified for housing

There have been reasonable questions raised about how active and functional the island’s democracy could be in the absence of an official opposition conducting its work in the House of Assembly. Barbados faced such a scenario in 2018 when Barbadians, either completely frustrated with the last administration or extremely confident in what the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) was offering as an