Massive Job Cuts Planned for Arawak Cement Plant – 70 Percent Going Home
The National Union of Public Workers and the Barbados Workers Union are in talks with management of the Arawak Cement plant on separation packages for more than a hundred workers that are being sent home. The Port of Spain-based Trinidad Cement Limited plans to lay-off most of the workers at the Arawak Cement Company limited […]
Fatal Fall Leaves Family in Mourning
Friends and family of Alfred Odle have been left saddened after the sixty-five year old fell into a sixty foot well and died yesterday. Police reported that the man, who was employed with a construction company, was cleaning a well at the Grantley Adams International Airport just before the tragic accident occurred. When Starcom Network […]
No Real Political Divide in Bdos, Argues Senator
An independent Senator believes Barbados needs what he calls an a-political national strategic plan. Senator Reverend John Rogers questions how much real economic progress Barbados has made over the past thirty years. He suggests Barbados develops its own economic solutions unhindered by the dictates of international aid agencies. The Anglican cleric thinks that local […]
Medicinal Marijuana Progress
Barbados’ first medicinal marijuana farm is already operating and the first dispensing facility is to commence operations over the next year. This has been disclosed by the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority, Senator Shanika Roberts-Odle. As debate on the appropriations bill continued in the upper chamber of parliament, she […]
Sargassum Threat Worries Hoteliers
The Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association is concerned about the impact on the tourism industry as a five thousand mile-wide blob of seaweed heads towards the Caribbean. The gigantic mass of seaweed that formed in the Atlantic Ocean also threatens the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico. Experts warn it […]