While AOPT warns of collapse, GIAB blames ‘uncontrolled’ PSV behaviour
Four years after gaining a 75 per cent rise in bus fares, minibus and route taxi owners are pressing the Mia Mottley administration to raise fares or subsidise the industry, claiming it is near collapse. Chairman of the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) Roy Raphael has warned that the rising operating costs had reached […]
No mask mandate
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has dismissed social media reports that there is a mask mandate in Barbados again. However, it did advise persons who have respiratory symptoms and are visiting healthcare institutions to wear a mask. Mask mandates have been reinstituted in some parts of the United States and are under consideration in […]
BAMP warns of potential for fresh outbreak of breathing illnesses in schools
The new school term could see an unwelcome companion to thousands of children returning to the classroom – a rash of respiratory illnesses – the head of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) warned on Tuesday. Amid a spate of virulent flu and dengue cases, BAMP president Dr Lynda Williams cautioned parents and guardians […]
Licensing Authority processing licences for drivers over 70 without medical certificates
The Barbados Licensing Authority (BLA) says the process of renewing driving licences for people over the age of 70 has started, but full implementation of its system to accommodate that is still undergoing testing. In a statement issued on Tuesday, five days after President of the Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP) Marilyn Rice-Bowen told […]
Accelerate our EV infrastructure. Enter BNOCL.
Barbados has made an important statement that it intends to create a sustainable future with the incorporation of electric vehicles (EVs) on our roads. We acknowledge the exponential rise in the numbers of EV cars on our roads in the decade since the emergence of a private sector player – which has prompted the more […]
Repair work continues at Hampton Pumping Station
Barbados Water Authority (BWA) said personnel pressed ahead with repair work being conducted at the Hampton Pumping Station in St Philip on Tuesday. Crews are working on lifting the damaged pump out of the well. That pump will then be replaced and the new one put into operation. The BWA has urged customers to store […]