Chairman of the SSA meets with the management about garbage collection challenges
Chairman of the Sanitation Service Authority Senator Rudy Grant was meeting with the SSA’s senior management today to discuss ways to best meet demand for its garbage collection services even as it struggles with an under-sized fleet. Senator Grant has told the Senate that the state agency still has less than half the number of […]
Fire leaves a family of four homeless.
A business and a home were destroyed in a blaze at Diamond Valley, St. Phillip this morning leaving a family of four without a roof over their heads. Owner of ‘De Mash Up Bar, Irville Browne, was at work when he got a call that his house and the attached bar were on fire. Mr. […]
Barbados authorities concerned about the country’s declining birth rate
Writer: Ryan Gilkes … Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George says the Ministry of Health is concerned about the steady decline in Barbados’ birth rate over the last 10 years. He has told a prenatal medical conference that in 2007, the country recorded 3,258 birth, but ten years later in 2017 the number of […]