Officials at the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) are pleased with the turnout of Sunday s Joyful Joyful Concert held at the National Botanical Gardens.
GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY MUST END - RUDDER
By Jenique Belgrave
Entrepreneurs must be willing to accept the risks of being a business owner and not look to the government for support, says Commissioner of the National Population Committee Pierce Boo Rudder.
“I believe that we have a misguided notion about what entrepreneurship is all about. Barbados is probably the only place in the world
Family, friends and fellow students of the late Jamali Skakeel Kalani “Mali” Morgan gathered yesterday at the Mount Pleasant Memorial Gardens in St Peter to bid him a tearful farewell. The life of the 16-year-old student of Alexandra School was cut tragically short on February 18 when he was fatally stabbed during the Holetown Festival. The sombre occasion featured songs, Scripture readings and various tributes. It was attended by Member …
The new Barbados Trident ID Card remains a secure and convenient form of identification for citizens to use.This assurance comes from Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology, Davidson Ishmael, as he responded to concerns expressed by president of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Dr Ronnie Yearwood who suggested over the weekend that Barbadians should not collect their new IDs because of what he saw as serious security issues.Speaking during Monday’s St Peter Speaks town hall meeting at the Alexandra School, Ishmael pushed back on the notion of “unsafe” cards and stressed that the new chip and pin security features associated with the new ID had been used successfully in other jurisdictions.“What amazes me is that we have people out there fear mongering, and trying to wrestle our people into a state of standing still, when the rest of the world is moving forward, for something that is as basic and as fundamental to our society as your ID card.”He added: “A
The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) is working on improving the water distribution network in St Peter, with mains replacement on the cards though some works have been delayed.Director of Engineering Charles Leslie told Monday’s St Peter Speaks town hall meeting at the Alexandra School that while some residents of the northern parish may experience discoloured water and other issues with supply, the BWA had been continuously working to rectify the situation from 2019 when the main reservoir in Boscobelle was replaced.“The reservoir we had there before, the structural integrity of it could not withstand a major hurricane so we had to replace that. That was there from the 1970s; then what we have been doing systematically and strategically is replacing mains, but we obviously have to be prioritising the mains replacement effort,” he said.“There are a number of other mains like in Centipede Alley and other areas [like] Cave Hill that we have earmarked for replacement.”