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What exactly does the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have in mind regarding changes to Dam B? Apparently we’ll have to wait until a Thursday, September 15th meeting in Jasper
Prominent youth activist Roger Husbands says some of the members of violent gangs are among the island’s school population.He has therefore called on law enforcement officials and the Ministry of Education to ensure the bloodshed recently seen on the streets does not make its way into educational institutions when the new term begins in another two weeks.“One of my fears now is that school is about to start back and you have young gangsters and you have young guys who are actually running gangs who will be going back into the school system, and I want to encourage the Minister of Education...
There could be a chartered flight between Bridgetown and at least one African nation in the coming months, Prime Minister Mia Mottley has announced.At the same time, President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Professor Benedict Oramah, who said there could also be a routine service within the next five years, pledged financial support for the establishment of a regular air link between the two regions and indicated that the region could become home to African-based commercial banks.These were among the areas for concrete action coming out of the first ever AfriCaribbean Trade an...
Retired actuary Charles Herbert has raised an alarm over the major decline in the number of people contributing to the National Insurance (NIS), as he questioned Government’s rationale for continuing to pay non-contributory pensions.“I don’t really understand the room for non-contributory pension. That doesn’t seem to be accountable to the public,” he said on Tuesday night during an Institute of Chartered Account of Barbados (ICAB) webinar on Our NIS - The Way Forward.The latest review of the NIS showed that the number of employees plus self-employed contributors to the scheme had fa...
The Barbados Association of Retailers, Vendors and Entrepreneurs (BARVEN) has stepped in to fight for farmers at River Plantation, St Philip whose land is being taken away by the Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC).President Alister Alexander on Thursday instructed the farmers not to stop their operations and assured them that his association would back them at all costs.“BARVEN will fight. We have no choice but to fight cause that is what we do – fight for justice,” he declared.It was reported in another section of the media last month that some farmers w...