BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 14, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Policy Development Center (CPDC) says it will launch its Action/2015 Caribbean campaign on Thursday as part of the larger global Action/2015 campaign to end poverty, inequality and bring attention to significant climate change is...

Barbados and Cuba are seeking to deepen their collaboration in sports and culture.  The proposed approach was discussed during a courtesy call on Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, Stephen Lashley, by Cuban Ambassador, Francisco Fernández Peña, at the Ministry of Culture&rsqu...

Mr. Speaker Sir, precisely sixteen months ago we called on all Barbadians to sacrifice in order that we can reap the benefits of necessary stabilization and adjustment in the economy. Today I can say to the country that, based on actual performance and projections for the immediate future, we have ...

Barbados’ government has formulated a national intellectual property strategic plan, it said this week. The plan, which is being developed with the assistance of the World Intellectual Property Organization, aims to make the country’s economy “more competitive globally,” th...

Small Island Development States (SIDS) were praised during the yesterday’s Global Celebration of World Environment Day 2014 for the front line position they have taken to fight the disastrous effects of climate change. Barbados had the opportunity to be in the spotlight as host to the internat...

Barbados’ government says it is planning to develop a “blueprint” to reform its Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teaching across its education system. Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development Minister Dr Esther Byer Suckoo pointed this week to what s...

Barbados must move with haste to cash in on the benefits to be made from the fast-growing cultural heritage tourism niche. Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Richard Sealy, offered this suggestion to scores of preservationists attending the 1st Caribbean Conference of National Trusts...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - NOTED THINKERS, scholars and decision-makers of the Caribbean Community continue to offer moving tributes to the remarkable contributions of Dr Norman Girvan who died last week in Havana, Cuba, where he was undergoing emergency medical attention following serious ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - Just after 3 a.m. today, the moon turned red. The lunar eclipse started after 1 a.m. and about two hours later, the full effects were visible from several places across Barbados and the world. According to Ricardo Small, president and director of the board...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Labour Minister Dr Esther Byer Suckoo is expected to continue talks here on Tuesday after talks with officials of the of the Barbados Agricultural Management Corporation (BAMC) and the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) failed to end a six-day strike by sugar workers on M...