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The two contenders for leadership of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) engaged in a war of words on the airwaves yesterday over issues of fairness, transparency and personal attacks. Less than 24 hours after each raised the political temperature at separate party meetings, both incumbent Verla De Peiza and her challenger Reverend Guy Hewitt faced off during Starcom Network’s Down To Brass Tacks radio call-in programme yesterday. [caption id=
The beleaguered Four Seasons Hotel property is now owned by Government, and the Mia Amor Mottley administration is looking for an investor or buyer to get the financially plagued project off the ground. Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn revealed this yesterday when he was a guest caller on Starcom Network’s Down To Brass Tacks radio call-in programme. He was attempting to clear the air on what was new with …
Article by Social Share The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is being accused of not furnishing several laid-off or severed employees of statutory corporations with their unemployment benefits. The charge has come from general secretary of Unity Workers’ Union (UWU), Senator Caswell Franklyn, who said this was only causing more hardship to Barbadians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking during yesterday’s Down To Brass Tacks radio call-in programme on Starcom Network, he said under the National Insurance and Social Security (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2018, workers employed by ...
Social Share It appears that Class 4 pupils at Reynold Weekes Primary School will not be joining the thousands of other children sitting today’s Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE). One of them tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. A letter addressed to parents from principal Anderson Bishop stated that the students would have to take an alternative test next month. “Please be informed that a Class 4 student has tested positive for COVID-19. Contact tracing has already started with select class members. Unfortunately, this contact tracing may not be completed b...
Article by Social Share Barbados’ ageing population, high rate of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and low vaccination rate could be the recipe for a local variant of COVID-19, warns president of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) Dr Lynda Williams. Although Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George confirmed earlier this month that the Alpha variant (the British strain of COVID-19) was “fairly commonplace” in Barbados, she is renewing calls for a greater variant surveillance programme to determine what other strains are possibly circulating in the island. Will...