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The National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) is back staging its first live showcase since 2019. The annual festival is now in its 49th year.Like Crop Over, the national festival that is synonymous with top local talent, will have in-person events throughout the month of November.Last year, Barbados TODAY partnered with the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) to bring our Facebook audience the live stream of the launch of the NIFCA Online Channel.We would have livestreamed most of the events presented in a digital format.Thousands abroad and at home found interviews with musical ...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is currently managing an outbreak of COVID-19 on a construction site in St Philip as well as at the Psychiatric Hospital in Black Rock, St. Michael.  Several persons associated with the construction si

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is currently managing an outbreak of COVID-19 on a construction site in St Philip as well as at the Psychiatric Hospital in Black Rock, St Michael. Several people associated with the construction site have tested positive for COVID-19 and public health officials are closely monitoring the outbreak. The Ministry is providing the support necessary to minimise any risk of further spread in the environs. …

As Barbados deals with the fourth wave of COVID-19, Dodds Prison again has not been spared the infections. However, Acting Superintendent of Prisons DeCarlo Payne said, contrary to rumours, it was not a major outbreak like what the prison had previously experienced. “We don’t have a widespread issue here right now. Any inmates who display symptoms are isolated in a building and that was so from the time we started …

Police and personnel from Dodds Prisons are currently searching for escaped prisoner 37-year-old Roger Rommel Sealy, also known as