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People selling canes and other agricultural products by the roadside may soon have to produce a receipt to allow authorities to trace where they came from. Minister of Agriculture Indar Weir says this is among some of the measures Government will be putting into the new praedial larceny legislation which will soon be coming back to Parliament. He gave the update when he called into Starcom Network’s radio call-in programme …
Chief Education Officer Dr Ramona Archer-Bradshaw is giving the reassurance that the Ministry of Education will be providing personal protective equipment (PPE) at schools, as well as complete minor fixes, as it phases in the resumption of face-to-face classes to ensure the safety of teachers and students. She was responding yesterday to some pushback from teachers’ unions and advocates, who have asked that Government delay its plan for the restart …
A rival political party has put a case why the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is deserving of the annual $150 000 subvention for political groups. The reasoning is coming from Bishop Joseph Atherley, former member of the ruling Barbados Labour Party who switched to become Leader of the Opposition after its 30-0 clean sweep in May 2018. The feat was repeated in January 2022 General Election. “I maintain from back …
Former Barbadian politician Dr Don Blackman has passed away in Florida, in the United States. Blackman held various ministerial posts such as Minister of Transport and Works and was considered a controversial, yet charismatic politician. Barbados Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for St Michael East Trevor Prescod, speaking on Starcom Network today, said Blackman was a man of strong convictions, who worked to assist the poor. Political analyst …
There may be more COVID-19-positive cases in Barbados than what is being reported. This is according to senior lecturer in public health and epidemiology at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Dr Natasha Sobers-Grannum. She said what was being reported was only a third or quarter of the true results, adding that the modelling done by UWI’s George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre only represented the number of people …