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Embarrassed by the CXC dilemma Article by December 16, 2020 Defender of children rights Faith Marshall-Harris is describing the ongoing Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) fiasco which is affecting thousands of students in Barbados and across the Caribbean as a travesty. The only UNICEF-appointed Children Champion in the Caribbean Marshall-Harris said there is an urgent need to rectify the controversy which surrounds alleged discrepancies in the grading system which has led to students across the region applying for reviews. She said she was not impressed that CXC’s atti...

December 15, 2020 An “aggressive” teen who injured a minor when he threw a rock through a window will spend the next few days on remand at Dodds. Nineteen-year-old Damario Addison Brathwaite, of Sargeant Village, Christ Church pleaded guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding the five-year-old on December 12. According to the facts read by Sergeant Edwin Pinder, lawmen responded to a report of a dispute at the address around 10:35 a.m. While standing in the living room at the residence speaking to the parties involved Brathwaite rushed into the house and began behaving in a ...

Get the Apps Visitor arrivals a fraction of “normal” seasonal arrivals, says airport official Article by December 15, 2020 Barbados can expect close to 20,000 visitors to fly into the island this month, significantly down from its monthly average of well over 200,000. That’s according to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Inc., Hadley Bourne who shared his outlook with Barbados TODAY this afternoon. According to Bourne, the traditional Christmas arrivals are even higher, but because of the major blow to global travel due t...

Tough time for minimum wage talk Article by December 15, 2020 Chief Executive Officer of the Small Business Association (SBA) Senator Dr Lynette Holder believes a national minimum wage is needed in Barbados, but warns that it will be “a difficult conversation” for most companies to have at this time given the severe fallout they are experiencing as a result of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic. Holder told Barbados TODAY that while companies were established primarily to make a profit and meet a need, wages accounted for the majority of a firm’s operation costs. Even so...

December 15, 2020 In a stark symbol of the unrest swirling about the state of industrial relations, the acting general secretary of the nation’s public workers union heads to retirement while her predecessor claims unfair dismissal. With just over two weeks to go before National Union of Public Workers’ Acting General Secretary Delcia Burke goes on retirement leave, the union is still mulling a successor. At the same time, Burke’s predecessor, Roslyn Smith, has now taken the union before the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) claiming she was unfairly dismissed as General Secret...