Bdos wants states to pay their share of CDEMA Funding
Barbados is urging other Caricom countries to honor their financial commitments to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and disaster mitigation initiatives such as the Regional Response Mechanism (RRM) The appeal has come from this country’s Minister of Home Affairs and Information, Wilfred Abrahams, who was speaking at the RRM After-Action Review and Consultation […]
Millions for road repairs
Government will be spending about 60 million dollars over the next financial year on repairing this country’s roads, many of which are deemed to be in poor condition. The plan has been outlined by Minister of Transport and Works, Santia Bradshaw, as debate on government’s estimates of revenue and expenditure resumed today in the House […]
Parish Land “shootout” alarms residents
A car was damaged but no one injured in a shootout at Parish Land, Christ Church last night. Starcom Network News understands the incident happened about twenty minutes to seven. We were told that a motorcyclist and another man exchanged gunfire damaging a parked car. Police arriving at the scene located neither individual. A resident […]