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Catching word of the simulation, some Barbadians moved out of the City before the scheduled 3 p.m. start of the exercise, while others avoided the area completely.

The Navy is using Special Boat Service snipers to intercept cocaine shipments heading to Europe from producers in Colombia and Bolivia, it emerged last night.

Minister of Education and Human Resource Development Ronald Jones getting tested by Nurse Charmaine Ray.

Evelyn Greaves receiving a special award from Ashton Turney, a former president of the credit union.

The contributor purported to be a 36-year-old aspirant and student in politics who is trying to learn, but to her credit, admitted to being confused.

Speaking to media representatives at a "sensitisation meeting" held at the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation in the Pine recently, community health educator Sade Leon-Slinger expressed serious concern about ...

GOVERNMENT believes that the international business sector must include indigenous enterprises.

Although I am both emotionally and intellectually stirred by these significant tenets on which our country s growth and development have been based, I am more moved by an equally significant pillar that upholds ...

Close to 200 permanent German residents; a continuous influx of German tourists; not to mention the prestigious German automobiles.

Even before Barack Obama secured the magical 2118th vote, persons were asking whether I think he should select Hillary Clinton as his running mate.

BARBADOS should use what is left of its coastline for tourism development. Experienced Barbadian hotelier Ralph Taylor floated this proposal yesterday, saying it could result in a resurgence in tourist arrivals ...

OPPOSITION MP Rawle Eastmond yesterday blasted commercial banks for refusing to sell chattel mortgages and appealed to them to be "more patriotic". In a brief presentation that was met with a rousing reception ...

It is certainly one of, if not the most glamorous annual Bajan events in any part of North America.

A brilliant legal mind who was raised in a "Barbadian home" in New York City will help United States Senator Barack Obama select his vice-presidential running mate.

EXTENSIVE USE OF natural gas may be the best way forward for Barbados to tackle its energy woes.

GREETINGS: Congress of the People's Political Leader Winston Dookeran, left, greets former Barbados prime minister Owen Arthur before yesterday's launch of 'The Foundation for Politics and Leadership' at ...

INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS seem to stand in the way of the island's farmers. There is a lack of land dedicated to agriculture, high input costs, a perception of apathy on the part of Government, and for other sources ...

If Baruch Spinoza were living today, he would have to eat his words. "Nothing remained of them, not even the memory," said the 17th-century philosopher about the Jews from Spain and Portugal who during the ...

Carla Campbell - Contributed Caribbean Fashionweek, the region's largest and most important fashion event, was launched in Barbados recently.

Barbados is to spend a whopping $180 million between 2008 and 2013 in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS. Just over half of the money - $92.8 million - will be for treatment programmes, with $33 million ...