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Credit union Story misleading
Hally Haynes Misleading and does not reflect recent developments – that’s how the local credit union movement has responded to a recent news story claiming they had been ordered to pull investments from certain financial institutions. In a statement issued this evening by President of the Barbados Co-operative & Credit Union League Limited, Hally Haynes, the movement said it had ...
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Catlyn BHL’s top choice
Damien Catlyn (left) receives award from BHL CEO Richard Cozier. A young man who has been with Pine Hill Dairy for just over two years, has won the prestigious CEO Award of Excellence as the most outstanding employee across the entire Banks Holdings Group of Companies. Thirty two year old Damien Catlyn, who is the grouping’s Health, Safety, Environmental and Energy Officer, not only ...
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No improvement in business expected
Christopher Myles While Pan-Africanists in Barbados prepare to celebrate African Liberation Day 2013, small businessmen located in Pelican Village, the City, say they are yet to experience economic enfranchisement in their country of birth. And several of them told a team from Barbados TODAY that they did not anticipate any improvement in business during the upcoming Crop-Over activities. ...
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PM Stuart confirms project
Barnaby Kelham (left) and Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. More than a week after Barbados TODAY broke the story, the Prime Minister’s Office has confirmed that the multi-million dollar Beachlands tourism project on the West Coast is going ahead. In a statement issued through the Government Information Service, it reported that Prime Minister Freundel Stuart received this assurance from ...
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Panama important to Barbados
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Maxine McClean, heard first-hand an account of the Panamanian migration experience when she met with a group of Panama visitors, some of whom have traced their ancestry to Barbados. During the meeting that took place at the Dover Beach Hotel, Christ Church, the minister reiterated Panama’s importance as a strategic partner for ...
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Grantley Prescod own the court
Destiny Glasgow was a perfect six goals from six attempts as Grantley Prescod defeated St. Gabriel’s 6-1 when action continued in the Pine Hill Dairy-sponsored National Sports Council’s Primary Schools Netball Competition at the Police Boys & Girls Sports Club on Bay Street, St. Michael today. Jaden-Tai Hinkson scored the solitary goal for St. Gabriel’s. Glasgow was again ...
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Prize-winners heading to B’dos
Prize-winner Cathy Hughes, holding the lucky number programme, flanked by partner Steve Castle (left) and event director Rick Smith. (Picture by Anthony Concannon) Motor sport volunteers on both sides of the Irish sea are set to enjoy dream holidays in the Caribbean as prize-winners in the third 'Rally to Barbados' promotion for the region's biggest annual motor sport ...
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Graydon Sealy whip Ellerslie
Graydon Sealy’s dynamic trio of Andrew Ifill, Shaquan Newton and Amal Smith combined to dump 85 points on Ellerslie in a 101-27 victory as action in the Co-operators General Insurance Company Limited-sponsored Secondary Schools Basketball Tournament continued yesterday. Playing at Ellerslie, Graydon Sealy led 34-11 at half-time but then returned on resumption to totally dominate the Black ...
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Glad to play for Jamaica
Daniel Gordon The Jamaican Football Federation has succeeded in attracting Germany-born Daniel Gordon into the ranks of the Reggae Boyz. The towering 6 foot 4 inch midfielder/defender, currently in the island training with the national squad, has ancestral ties to Jamaica through his grandparents. "I am very proud to be here and I just need to get to know the team and I look forward to ...
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Rivals tipped for volleyball honours
Volleyball rivals Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago will play the opening match in the NORCECA second-round Group I four-team qualifiers of the 2014 FIVB Women’s World Championship. Barbados and Trinidad are favourites to advance to the third round as they resume their quest at the University of the West Indies Sports and Physical Educational Centre this coming Saturday and Sunday. ...
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IMF head facing probe
Christine Lagarde. PARIS — IMF chief Christine Lagarde will be questioned by a French magistrate tomorrow over her role in a ,285 million arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy. Lagarde risks being placed under formal investigation at the hearing for her 2007 decision as Sarkozy’s finance minister to use arbitration to settle a long-running court ...
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Journalists banned from attending gov’t meetings
Journalists protest silently. KIEV — Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen local reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a silent protest today over physical attacks on journalists at a rally. ';What kind of show is this?'; Azarov said when reporters who were attending a cabinet meeting stepped in front of television cameras, ...
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Incident rates drop at PHD
Incident rates drop at PHD 5/23/2013 By Nadia Brancker The coveted BHL Group of Companies ...
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More land for food needed
More land for food needed 5/23/2013 Making sure that just under a third of ...
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Ministry committed to community-based projects
Ministry committed to community-based projects 5/23/2013 Minister of International Business, Commerce, Industry and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss, says that this ministry will give full support to community-based projects that are aimed at developing a stronger level of entrepreneurship in this country. Moreover, Minister Inniss said that there is an abundance of talent ...
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PCW to receive first Straughan Scholarship
PCW to receive first Straughan Scholarship 5/23/2013 A scholarship has been established in the name of Pan-Africanist, Glenroy Straughan. This is according to David Comissiong, President of the Clement Payne Movement, who spoke with the Barbados Advocate yesterday at Bajan Art Forms in Pelican Craft Centre. Aptly titled the Glenroy Straughan Community Development Award, it would be ...
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Hindsbury Alpha Club giving back
(L-R) As Optimist Representatives Margaret Chapman-Farley and Launagene Bascombe along with Alpha Advisor Rosamond Payne-Harewood and students of the Alpha Club observed, Alpha Club Representative Iyanla Jordan and Principal Nola Cummings-Lewis cut the ribbon to officially declare the library ...
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Library a tool to enhance learning of students
Library a tool to enhance learning of students 5/23/2013 Teachers and parents are encouraging and lauding the newly presented library to the students of Hindsbury by the ...
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New mascot for coastal hazards education push
New mascot for coastal hazards education push 5/23/2013 The look of the new mascot that will be the main resource in educating Barbadians about the potential dangers arising from our waters, was chosen yesterday from several creative designs put forward by young talented children. The confident Tabian Marshall was named winner of the Coastal Hazards Mascot Primary School Competition ...
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NISE survey highlights contractor issues
NISE survey highlights contractor issues 5/23/2013 Dishonesty, unprofessionalism, and poor workmanship are among the reasons listed as to why clients felt that they had to change contractors. This is according to the National Initiative of Service Excellence (NISE) Customer Satisfaction Index (NCSI) QI, 2013 Professional and General Services which was released recently. Speaking with ...
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Harmonise labour laws in the Caribbean
Harmonise labour laws in the Caribbean 5/23/2013 By Patricia Thangaraj There needs to be a harmonisation of labour laws within the region. This call was made recently by Cedric Murrell, President of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) ...
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Equip workforce with relevant skills says Cox
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour said this morning that Barbados has for too long been training and educating people in areas not specifically required by industry. Addressing the presentation of survey results on the state of the human resources profession in the Caribbean at the Cave Hill School of Business, at the University of the West Indies, Andrew Cox suggested that ...
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Three head to Dodds
A Haynesville man has been remanded to Dodds Prison in relation to last Friday’s stabbing incident in Black Rock, St. Michael, while another is jailed for robbing a German visitor. Twenty-six-year-old Corey Jamar Coppin of Lead Vale, Christ Church, who appeared in court today, jointly charged with 17-year-old Jaleel Antoine Kellman of Hinks Road, Carrington Village, pleaded guilty to the ...
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Search on for partner
Vegetables grown with Urban Barns equipment. An American food crop company known for producing vegetables using special technology, wants to go green in Barbados, but local investors are not biting. Urban Barns Foods Inc. has hired "an agent" here and wants to establish growing facilities to produce items including lettuce, basil, watercress, mint, Swiss chard, cilantro and spinach, ...
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Shopkeepers helping people in need
Jennifer Baker might be on to a good thing. She and a group of other like minded people are starting a fund aimed at helping people in need. Barker is the chairperson of the Let’s Help Each Other, or De LHEO LIME and Fund, and she told Barbados TODAY in a telephone interview that shop limes should be more than just about fun and entertainment and making money. ';We have a lot of ...
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Barbados employment slips
Barbados has seen a dramatic increase in unemployment benefits and requests for help from the government following the recession, a country that emerged rather well from colonialism is now struggling, but a new census is in the works.
Barbados is country with much to be proud of, this little island nation in the Caribbean was a possession of various colonial powers from the Spanish in the 15th century to the British until 1966. Read more
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