Only eight left in recovery
No one tested positive for COVID-19 in Barbados for the third consecutive day, but one person will be discharged from the isolation facility at Harrison Point, St Lucy, after recovering from the viral…
Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign
90 complete Spanish programme
Ninety graduates of an online conversational Spanish programme, offered by the Embassy of Argentina, in association with the National Library Service, are being encouraged to enroll in the intermediate…
BWA’s Warleigh station to be taken offline
The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) has advised residents in St James and St Peter that its station at Warleigh will be taken offline on Thursday, September 24, between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to facilitate…
Grenada to hold consultations on decriminalising marijuana
St Georges – The Grenada government Tuesday said it will stage public consultations as part of the efforts to determine the changes needed to the national laws and international treaties regarding the…
US, China tensions flare over COVID-19
United Nations – Tensions between the United States and China came to the fore of the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with US President Donald Trump blaming China for the spread of novel coronavirus…
CARICOM Travel Bubble in operation
Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda, have started operating the CARICOM Travel Bubble, with the hope of resuscitating the travel and tourism sectors. A statement…
Mia: Rename Cave Hill Campus after Owen
Government wants the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Cave Hill Campus to be renamed after former Prime Minister Owen Arthur. Prime Minister Mia Mottley told the House of Assembly on Tuesday morning…
Caribbean leaders agree to UN declaration
United Nations – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have joined their global counterparts in adopting a declaration honouring the multilateral framework put in place by the United Nations founders in…
Bahamas, US make major drug bust
Nassau – Police seized more than US$3 million in marijuana on Monday during a joint operation involving the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, US Coast Guard and other US law enforcement agencies. “We noticed…
Medics: UK faces soaring COVID-19 death rate
London – Britain will face an exponentially growing death rate from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) within weeks unless urgent action is taken to halt a rapidly spreading second wave of the outbreak, the…