Prime Minister Mia Mottley has announced Barbados’ fashion sector will get a major financial injection which should allow designers and others involved to tap into the trillion-dollar industry. In making the announcement during the delivery of the 2023 Budget in Parliament on Tuesday, she said that people only had to look at mogul and National Heroine, The Most Honourable Robyn Rihanna Fenty, to see how big an industry it was. …
Barbados’ tourism players are being urged to take advantage of increased airlift from across the region this summer. Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced in her four-hour Budget delivered in the House of Assembly on Tuesday, that in what is traditionally a slow travel period, some 37 800 seats from across the Caribbean alone were expected. And as such, Government was reducing the CARICOM fee by $17.50 per passenger for six …
By January 2022, Barbadians were suffering from COVID-19 fatigue and were ready to resume regular routines as much as possible. The pandemic, which held the world in its grip since early 2020 was still prevalent, but slowly, the Government was relaxing the protocols which kept the country safe during the height of the crisis. Government never eased up on it messages which encouraged people to not only get tested but …
India Under-19 Women registered their second successive win at the ICC Women’s U19 T20 World Cup with a massive 122-run victory over United Arab Emirates Under-19 Women (UAE) in Willowmoore Park, Benoni in South Africa. Sent into bat, openers Shweta Sehrawat and Shafali Verma posted 111 for the first wicket before a blistering cameo of 49 runs from wicketkeeper batter Richa Ghosh saw them rack up 219 for three in …
Last year was chockfull of news on the political front. Whether it was general elections, internal party affairs or the Cabinet reshuffle in the last quarter of the year, there always seemed to be something happening and being discussed among the pundits and those who occasionally have a look-see into the goings-on. In the dying embers of 2021 while people were making plans to usher in the new year, on …