SANDALS BEACHES PROJECT MAY BE CANCELLED
Prime Minister Mottley has announced that the Sandals Beaches project in St. Peter may be shelved accusing Sandals of increasing their demands beyond anything the government could consider reasonable. Miss Mottley said such a deal would amount to a country giving up its right to tax a company.
Clico deal
Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced a major settlement in the long-running Clico saga. This will allow the majority of the Barbados policy holders, more than eight thousand people to get all their money back and another 13 hundred will get at least half of what they are owed. cue in..the government… But Prime Minister stressed […]
PM MOTTLEY OUTLINES PLAN TO TACKLE GUN VIOLENCE
Prime Minister Mottley has vowed that everything will be done to save the young people of the country from the scourge of gun violence. She said the aim is rescue entire families and communities with the goal being to target thirty to a hundred families from each parish. Young people forced to leave school because […]
PRIME MINISTER MIA MOTTLEY LOOKING FOR FULL ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN SIX YEARS.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley delivering her first full budget said the government cannot rebuilding in ten months what was destroyed over the course of ten years and indicated the aim was for a full economic rebound by 2025. She outlined the progress made so far such as the recovery of the foreign reserves, […]
Prime Minister Mia Mottley delivers her first budget presentation
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has begun her first full budget presentation since assuming office in May last year, stressing that the emphasis of the government remains on stabilisation, growth and transformation. She also urged the public to in her words to stay the course while stressing that what she called the bitter medicine […]
Christ Church man stabbed to death
The murder toll in Barbados for the year so far reached 19 today with the death of a Christ Church man, stabbed to death by a teenage neighbour during a dispute at Gall Hill. The victim was stabbed several times and died not far from his home. Station Sargeant Michael Blackman of the police public […]
BAS wants lower water rates for farmers
Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society, James Paul, is hoping for some relief in the high water costs farmers face, in this afternoon’s Budget presentation by Prime Minister, Mia Amor Mottley. Mr. Paul tells Starcom Network News this is one of, if not the major cost, that is crippling some farmers.
Nurses walk off the job
Nurses at the Winston Scott Polyclinic are off the job, having walked out over security concerns. Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Public Workers Delcia Burke, says union officials have gone to the location to get to the bottom of the issue. Miss Burke has also been giving a union perspective ahead of […]