If ‘overstepping boundaries’ was a person, it would resemble the parliamentary representative from St James North in attempting to dictate what women can and…
President of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Dr Ronnie Yearwood, hand-delivered an open letter to the Office of Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on Wednesday, expressing dissatisfaction with attempts to recognise November 30 as Republic Day. Yearwood, accompanied by a small group of party members, said they noticed subtle attempts to do so, in spite of vocal protests by Barbadians and a petition he launched last year which had almost …
Twenty-five-year-old Shaquani Hunte is continuing her enterprising nature into 2023 as she has recently launched a travel agency Infinityb Travels.
The former student of Christ Church Foundation School who placed third in the Technical And Vocational Training Council World Skills Competition back in 2016 decided to launch her new business due to wanting to have multiple sources of income.
“I have a
The current laws that prohibit civil servants from engaging in political activity are archaic and wrong, says Democratic Labour Party President (DLP), Dr Ronnie Yearwood. He said that Alwyn Babb was being punished by the Government because of his decision to contest the most recent general election for the DLP alongside fellow teacher Pedro Shepherd, both of whom were unsuccessful. Babb was found guilty of breaking Public Service rules and …
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has accepted full responsibility for the controversial Computer Science test that was administered to first form students in Barbados on Monday.In a press release issued tonight, the IDB admitted that even though the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training objected to certain questions being included on the test, the test was still disseminated to students in its original format.And while the Ministry of Education came under fire for sanctioning the test that was said to be commissioned by code.org, the IDB admitted its fault in not adhering to the ministry’s demands to remove the specific questions.The IDB said the questions were subsequently removed from the test.“The Inter-American Development Bank expresses regret that a survey administered by the Bank to children in the Barbados secondary school system has offended many Barbadians.”Irate parents of some of the students who took the test on Monday told Barbados TO