BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - All is in place for Monday’s sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Barbados to hear evidence in the case of Shanique Myrie, the Jamaican woman who took the Government of Barbados to court on allegations that she was assaulted by an immigration officer i...

Bridgetown—The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) recently hosted a strategic donor meeting at the offices of the CDB in Barbados to discuss ways to support CCRIF’s new excess rainfall product and to coordinate with donors&rsquo...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - ON the eve of tonight’s discussion on a strategy for growing the Barbados economy, it is necessary to refer to a paper which the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr. Delisle Worrell, penned last year. In the paper published in Washington D.C. by the Group of 30...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Some Bds$100 million will soon be made available to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean through an investment project funded by the European Union, in co-operation with a number of development banks. The Caribbean Investment Facility (CIF), which is due to be launched next week...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Marijuana use has reached worrying proportions and is no longer confined to boys on the block and the unemployed. The National Council for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency (NCPADD) and the National Council for Substance Abuse (NCSA), think the alarm bells...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Incumbent West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Dr Julian Hunte is dismissing claims that he informed fellow directors that he would not be seeking re-election. In an interview ahead of the WICB’s annual general meeting in Barbados on March 27, Hunte sought to set t...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Sub-regional Office for Barbados and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) will host the finals, expo and award ceremony of the Caribbean Innovation Challenge (CIC) on...

BRIDGETOWQN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government says it plans to spend an estimated BDS$3.8 billion (One BDS dollar = US$0.50 cents) during the 2013-14 fiscal year, according to the estimates laid in Parliament. The Freundel Stuart government which was re-elected to office by a narrow 16-...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s founding father, was named the winner of the country’s presidential election with 50.07 per cent of the vote last Saturday. He has the name, the wealth – and the burden that comes with his heritage. Unlike the late Mzee Jo...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - It is good to know that at this time when rising fuel prices continue to impact on the general cost of living, fresh thinking is being encouraged for Barbados to revisit its absence from among the countries of the Caribbean that have long been beneficiaries of Venezuela’...