Some questions have to be asked, and in this right-thinking, democratic and engaging governance system, answers should be forthcoming.It was two years ago, September 2020, that the Government, in true public relations style, announced a major multi-million-dollar road rehabilitation project for Highway 1.At the time, then Minister of Transport and Works and Water Resources, Ian Gooding-Edghill, said Phase 1 of the project, scheduled to start in the coming weeks and completed by December, would cover 6 500 metres between the Frank Walcott Roundabout to Seaview Road, St James. The price tag was $15 281 656.00.So massive was the undertaking that the minister stated that five major companies were to be contracted.He explained that in order to complete the rehabilitation works within the prescribed timeframe, the Ministry was engaging five contractors who have previously carried out trenching operations for utility companies. He announced that these were Ajax Construction, Arthur Constructi
Prime Minister Mia Mottley says the reduction in the level of flooding in Holetown during recent heavy rains is an indication that the island’s Water Resource Management and Flood Resilience Project has delivered.She told attendees at this week’s St James Speaks town hall meeting that the Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) has been keeping the government informed and data suggest an improvement in the flooding patterns normally reported in that part of the country.“We have a Chief Meteorological Officer who keeps us up to date . . . and one of the things he said to me – because we now have water level radars and he sent me the graphs this afternoon – [was] that the water in the Holetown canal really only rose by two feet, which is unusual because it would have risen by far more had we not done the work before and then the other work that USAID [United States Agency for International Development] had been helping us with here in Holetown,” Mottley reported.
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The Barbados Light & Power Company (Light & Power) has delivered great news to its customers that August bills will indeed be lower for five reasons.
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First off, Managing Director Roger Blackman has said:
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Barbados’ Coroner has recommended that all police carry tasers and that the Psychiatric Hospital be renamed and rebranded to erase the stigma associated with the mental institution.Magistrate Graveney Bannister made the suggestions on Thursday at the conclusion of the inquest into the shooting death of 38-year-old mentally ill man Dwayne Frederick Husbands on August 17, 2016.The Trents Tenantry, St Lucy resident was killed by a shot fired by Constable Derek Boyce after threatening to kill the officer and his colleague and throwing missiles at them, when they went to take him to the Psychiatric Hospital.