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Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, David Comissiong (centre) who displayed some of the ‘I Am CARICOM’ memorabilia available, was accompanied by Hipolina Joseph (second from left), Deputy Programme Manager for Strategic Management of the CARICOM Secretariat; Ambassador Gail Mathurin (right), Director General of the CARICOM Office of Trade Negotiations (OTN) and a member of the Executive Management team of the CARICOM Secretariat as well as CARICOM Youth Ambassadors Tirshatha Jeffrey (left) and Chad Monerville, during the press conference.

Barbados hosts successful consultations on new CARICOM Strategic Plan

Thu, 03/12/2020 - 6:07am

National consultations held in Barbados this week to help map the way forward for the results-focused new ten-year Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Strategic Plan, have been described as “rich and fru

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DPP gets assistance

Thu, 03/12/2020 - 6:00am

Additional personnel have been assigned to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to assist in reducing the backlog of cases that have been plaguing the criminal courts in this cou

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Chief of Staff of the Barbados Defence Force, Colonel Glyne Grannum (left), sharing a few words with Executive Director (Ag.) of CARICOM IMPACS, Michael Jones.

Participants of the Detention, Investigation and Prosecution of Trafficking in Persons course, hosted by the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS).

CARICOM IMPACS hosts human trafficking course

Thu, 03/12/2020 - 5:30am

Earlier this week the Detention, Investigation and Prosecution of Trafficking in Persons course, hosted by the CARICOM Implemen-tation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), got under way at the B

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(From left) Minister of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy, and St. Michael South MP, Kirk Humphrey; Principal of Bay Primary School, Heather Parris; Nicole Brathwaite, the co-ordinating teacher of the beatification project; and Pastor Hal Welch, admiring the newly painted mural.

SCHOOL MAKEOVER

Thu, 03/12/2020 - 5:05am

Students of the Bay Primary School will soon have a big reason to smile about, as staff and members of the private sector have joined together to give the facility a much-needed sprucing up.

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Deputy Chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) Board of Management, Dr Abdul Mohamed, gave some shocking statistics about chronic kidney disease in Barbados during the QEH’s World Kidney Day seminar yesterday.