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CTUSAB: BOSS meets expectations

CTUSAB: BOSS meets expectations

The Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) today issued a statement on the Barbados Optional Savings Scheme (BOSS). 
According to Government, BOSS is aimed at providing…

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Small craft advisory

Small craft advisory

Barbados Meteorological Services has issued a small craft advisory which is in effect from 6 p.m., June 25 until 6 a.m., June 26.
According to a media release, officials expect: “Significant wave height…

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Liverpool win Premier league with seven games remaining

Liverpool win Premier league with seven games remaining

LONDON – Liverpool’s 30-year English title drought ended on Thursday as they were confirmed as Premier League champions courtesy of second-placed Manchester City’s 2-1 loss at Chelsea.
The result at…

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Australia and New Zealand awarded Women’s 2023 Football World Cup

Australia and New Zealand awarded Women’s 2023 Football World Cup

MELBOURNE/WELLINGTON – Australian and New Zealand’s women football players let out almighty roars, burst into applause and pumped their fists in celebration in the early hours of Friday after their countries’…

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One woman dead, another injured in accident at Oistins fish market

One woman dead, another injured in accident at Oistins fish market

A 74-year-old fish vendor succumbed to her injuries after being pinned by a car in the car park of the Berinda Cox Fish Market in Oistins, Christ Church earlier this evening.
She was identified as…

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Mottley issues another statement on Guyana elections

Mottley issues another statement on Guyana elections

The following statement was issued by CARICOM chairman Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados on the electoral crisis following Guyana’s general and regional elections on March 2, 2020.
Many of us…

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Youth charged with two murders

Youth charged with two murders

Eighteen-year-old Shane Wesley Dawson was remanded on two murder charges by the District A Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
The 5th Avenue Peterkin Land, Bank Hall, St Michael, resident is accused…

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Leroy Parris gets bail

Leroy Parris gets bail

Former head of CLICO Barbados Leroy Coleridge Parris was just released on $1.5 million bail.
He is currently in the District A Magistrates Court awaiting the arrival of his two sureties.
The former…

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COVID-19 will mute Liverpool’s league celebrations

COVID-19 will mute Liverpool’s league celebrations

When Liverpool finally get their hands on the league title again after a 30-year wait, the COVID-19 crisis has ensured the celebrations are going to look a lot different to the joyous scenes that greeted…

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Trinity Term ends July 24

Trinity Term ends July 24

Term Three, also known as the Trinity Term, will end on Friday, July 24.
This will officially bring the 2019-2020 school year to a close.
Teaching was delivered digitally during the Trinity Term…

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