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Symmonds highlights tech gap holding back developing nations

Jan 25, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

3 Barbados is set to challenge potential protectionist measures by larger nations, as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds warned on Friday that new tariffs could severely harm the country’s access to international markets. Symmonds told a mini-ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss city of Davos of the need for fairness in global trade to protect small and emerging economies.
Task force plans campaign to pressure plantation owner

Jan 23, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

3 Barbados is set to escalate its campaign for reparations against Richard Drax, the British Conservative MP and owner of Drax Hall plantation, as negotiations remain stalled over the St George estate where African ancestors suffered centuries of brutal enslavement.
Industry meets Italian demand with boost in production

Jan 21, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

28 Barbados is set to reinvigorate its cotton industry, with ambitious plans to increase production for the 2026 harvest significantly, the head of the lone cotton ginnery said on Monday. Exclusive Cottons of the Caribbean (ECC) chief executive Adlai Stevenson said the company aims to expand from the current 22 acres to over 200 acres, responding to strong demand from Italian buyers for the prized West Indian Sea Island Cotton.
Employment to be created in efforts to produce renewable gas, electricity from Sargassum

Jan 18, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

3 Barbados is set to revolutionise its energy industry and tackle its seaweed problem with a groundbreaking $186 million bio-energy project in a bid to save millions in foreign exchange, earn millions more in revenue, create jobs, and offer renewable natural gas (RNG) for commercial sale by April next year. The public-private partnership (PPP) venture slated to begin this year promises to extract gas from the invasive Sargassum seaweed, project founder Dr Legena Henry revealed on Friday.
St George water bill error sparks FTC probe

Jan 17, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

19 The discovery of a system error that resulted in a Barbados Water Authority (BWA) customer being overcharged, has prompted calls for a comprehensive audit at the state-run water company to determine how many more might have been affected. The cause of the error was discovered during a Fair Trading Commission (FTC) investigation after St George resident Richard Collymore complained that billing errors by the BWA started in August 2018.
SSA revised performance incentive scheme awaits NUPW approval

Jan 16, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

4 The state-run Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) has revised its controversial performance incentive scheme for workers, who last year suspended industrial action to allow for the development of a revamped plan to meet their demands. SSA Chairman Ramon Alleyne revealed that the revised plan has been submitted to the workers’ bargaining agent, the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW).
PSV operators to boost security amid rising crime concerns

Jan 15, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

2 Public service vehicle (PSV) operators are set to tighten security measures this year in response to a surge in violent crime, the head of the private transport owners group revealed on Tuesday. The move, which includes the introduction of cashless fares and surveillance cameras, comes as police express alarm over a spate of murders and gun attacks involving young offenders.
Police target ‘big fish’ in organised crime crackdown

Jan 14, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

3 The Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is intensifying efforts to bring high-level criminals to justice for firearms and drugrelated crimes, Acting Commissioner of Police Erwin Boyce declared on Monday. With 71 illegal guns having been taken out of the hands of criminals in 2024, the acting commissioner said the six-month-old SOCU is on a mission to get the masterminds of serious crimes. “That is perhaps where the Serious Organised Crime Unit has a mandate,” he told reporters.
Police chief urges public vigilance to combat rising crime

Jan 14, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

3 With three murders in the first 12 days of the year, Acting Commissioner of Police Erwin Boyce has pledged a crackdown to curb the rising tide of violence, warning criminals that lawmen “are going to get you”. The island’s acting top cop gave the assurance as he insisted that Barbadians must not be made to feel they cannot go about their daily business without being anxious or living in fear of crime.
Govt touts cotton revival with new plan

Jan 11, 2025 | barbadostoday.bb | Emmanuel Joseph

2 Barbados is set to breathe new life into one of its oldest cash crops, West Indian Sea Island Cotton, with a new plan agreed upon by government and private stakeholders, Minister of Agriculture Indar Weir said Friday. The plan will see harvesting start between February and March. But Weir insisted that the private sector must take the reins in managing the project, insisting that taxpayers and the government should not bear the burden of the revamped industry.