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Hundreds of Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) workers will have good reason to celebrate this Christmas with a share of just over $300 000 from Government.However, outspoken trade unionist and former Opposition senator Caswell Franklyn has described the payment as an attempt by Government to get SSA workers to stay with the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) with whom it is “more comfortable”.Chairman of the SSA Ramon Alleyne disclosed today that 601 SSA employees will be given $500 each from the Pandemic Levy Fund during the Government’s COVID-19 Humanitarian Awards Ceremony for f...

Close to 50 young attorneys-at-law were told to value their honesty, integrity and reputation above all else.They got this advice from acting Attorney General Wilfred Abrahams, who along with Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham welcomed them to the practice of law during their admission to the Bar on Monday.Describing them as the “most diverse set of young lawyers” he had ever seen, Abrahams reminded the 48 new attorneys that their work had only now started.During the ceremony in the No.1 Supreme Court this afternoon, both Abrahams and Sir Patterson lauded the island’s newest batch of...

The topic of gender and sexuality in Chapter three of the proposed new Constitution was at the centre of robust discussions during another of the Constitutional Reform Commission’s hosted public meetings.The overwhelming number of Barbadians who made submissions at the Deighton Griffith Secondary School, Kingsland, Christ Church on Sunday evening voiced disapproval with the inclusion of language that pushed gender neutrality. Many made the argument that if Barbados accepts and encourages this agenda through its Constitution, the island will be “going down a slippery slope”. However, this...

The Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) is pressing for a resolution to the environmental issues plaguing the Lawrence T. Gay Memorial Primary School for almost a decade.On Monday members of the union’s executive met with several of the school’s teachers during lunchtime at the Spooner’s Hill campus.When a Barbados TODAY team arrived at the school, teachers and union delegates were huddled in discussion on the impact of the odour on staff and students based on the Carlisle Clarke Block.Teachers expressed frustration and pleaded for something to be finally done about the issue.

Despite successfully completing its first International Monetary Fund (IMF)-backed economic recovery programme and achieving certain targets, Government has so far failed to adequately whet the appetite of investors with its most recent bond offer.At the same time, the Mia Mottley-led administration seems to be some way off from going back to the international market to raise capital.The take-up of the recently issued $200 million Barbados Optional Savings Scheme (BOSS) Plus investment bonds has fallen short of expectation, according to Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados Cleviston Haynes...