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Former West Indies Women’s head coach, Vasbert Drakes, has been appointed head coach of Barbados Pride for the upcoming Regional Four-Day Championship in February.The 52-year-old former Test all-rounder replaces Emerson Trotman who spearheaded Pride’s capture of the 2019-20 first class title – the last championship to be staged since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic.Dexter Toppin, a former Barbados seamer, led Pride during last year’s Super50 when the perennial champions lost four of their five matches to finish one from bottom of the six-team table in Antigua.

Have we learned the lessons of 2020, and are we using those experiences to help guide us as we near the end of 2021?The question is about how we as a country manage our desire to enjoy the traditional year-end celebrations and to do so in a way that is safe and allows us to be alive and healthy in 2022.There has been subdued celebration of the fact that the island’s positivity rate for COVID-19 infections was in the four-percentile range.We at Barbados TODAY, like every citizen and entity in this country, are breathing a sigh of relief that our COVID-19 infection rate seems to be heading in ...

Amid the setbacks and challenges presented during the ongoing COVID pandemic, young people in Barbados are still eager to get themselves job-ready as they pursue new opportunities in the world of work.This was the view expressed on Wednesday by Senior Youth Commissioner Elizabeth Bowen, on the final day of the Get Hired programme held by the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment in partnership with the Prince’s Trust International.“For the seminar, most persons are looking to gain employment because young persons coming are job-ready. They are job-ready because they meet the ...

A 31-year-old woman will appear in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court tomorrow charged with last Saturday’s murder of Shanice Miller.Shakira Carlann Blackman, of 4th Avenue Park Road, Bush Hall, St. Michael is accused of killing Miller who received multiple injuries during an altercation with another female along Upper James Street, near the junction of Synagogue Lane, Bridgetown.

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