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BMF releases 2021 calendar Article by December 15, 2020 More than 50 events planned by the Barbados Motoring Federation’s (BMF) seven sporting member clubs are listed on the provisional 2021 calendar released on Monday. After a year in which many events were cancelled or postponed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the motor sport community – in common with the memberships of island clubs in many other disciplines – are hoping that the effects of COVID-19 will start to abate early in the New Year. BMF vice-president Mark Hamilton said despite the ongoing pandem...

Barbados Today December 15, 2020 Police have identified  last night’s shooting victim as 36 year-old Canute Ward  of Darrell’s Hill St. Michael. Ward was shot and killed at Miller’s Road, Farm Road, St Peter. According to lawmen, they responded to a report of gunshots being heard in the said area around 9:40 p.m. On arrival, officers discovered the body of an adult male lying in a pathway.  He was later pronounced dead at the scene. Police are appealing to anyone with information about the shooting to contact Police Emergency at 211, the District ‘E’ Police Station at ...

December 12, 2020 Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados Today. Cosy rooms packed with people, chatting, laughing, singing, and sharing food and drink for hours are traditional in the festive season. Unfortunately, they are also ideal for fuelling the pandemic, with scientists suggesting infections could easily double over the holiday period. So here are the key questions to ask about any festivities. How many people are invited? No one will be popular for saying this, but the evidence is c...

SSA pushes back on union claims Article by December 15, 2020 The Sanitation Service Authority on Monday pushed back on allegations by the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) that the SSA has not been engaging workers on a number of pressing issues. In a statement, SSA board chairman Ramon Alleyne said: “It would be erroneous to suggest the SSA’s management has not engaged the SSA workers on their issues.” Last Friday, NUPW deputy General Secretary Wayne Walrond told Barbados TODAY repeated efforts to have meetings convened with SSA management have failed and tha...

Barbados Today December 14, 2020 SOURCE: Guardian Google has suffered a worldwide outage, with failures reported across the company’s services, including Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube. Beginning at about 11.50am GMT, the outages appeared to have affected the vast majority of Google’s services, apart from search which operated largely unaffected. Despite the universal nature of the outages, the company’s automated systems reported no problems for any services for the first 30 minutes of the outage, across both consumer-facing and its cloud tools for developers. At 12.25pm,...