The Government, through Export Barbados, plans to establish a life sciences park to further market the island as the ideal destination for global scientists and practitioners. Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology (MIST), Davidson Ishmael, made the announcement at the opening ceremony of the third annual Science and Technology Festival at the University of West Indies (UWI) on Friday. The park will span over 23 acres located in the …
One of Barbados’ leading technology solutions firms, Promotech Inc, has merged with ZanTech Limited, an associated technology company of Trinidad and Tobago-headquartered Amalgamated Security Services Ltd (ASSL) as it seeks to expand its footprint across the Caribbean.
The announcement came on Thursday during a swanky corporate event at Deia Beach Restaurant and Beach Club in Christ Church, under the theme ‘Promotech
While the number of people signing up for the digital Trident ID card continues to grow, the pace of collection has slowed significantly with about 90 000 of them still uncollected.
Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology Davidson Ishmael gave that update on Wednesday as he pleaded with Barbadians who registered to collect their new IDs and those who have
Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology Davidson Ishmael has paid tribute to businessman and owner of Nicholls Bakery McDonald Nicholls who died last Friday at the age of 63. Minister Ishmael described Nicholls as one of the island s most industrious sons who made an outstanding contribution to manufacturing and entrepreneurship.
Below is the full tribute:
The manufacturing community has lost one
The science pre-test questionnaire which wThe findings of an investigation into the administration of a controversial Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) pre-test questionnaire to first-form students of five secondary schools are now in the hands of the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training. Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology Davidson Ishmael confirmed to Barbados TODAY that the Ministry of Education had been furnished with the results of the probe, undertaken by his department, to determine whether any data protection laws had been breached. However, he declined to reveal the findings.