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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Maxine McCleanBRIDGETOWN (BGIS) - There is a heightened air of expectation that the current relations that exist between the 15-member CARICOM grouping of states and Mexico will be further strengthened by the end of their upcoming summit here in Barbados.
Acting Minister of Social Care, Patrick Todd, with Most Outstanding Female Athletes at the 2012 Senior Games, Ainsley Lovell (left) and Brenda Farley at a recent award ceremony. (C. Pitt/BGIS)BRIDGETOWN (BGIS) - In the past, the daily activities of retired persons in the community, for the post-employment years, involved watching daily soap operas, doing household chores, chatting for long periods with other retired friends, or just finding odd things to do to fill the void between wake and sleep.
BRIDGETOWN - The Barbados BAR Association is throwing its full weight behind a recent call made by attorney at law and political activist David Comissiong for foreign investigators to be brought in to probe all police killings.
BRIDGETOWN - Cellphone theft is the main crime committed by juveniles in Barbados.
The Masai warriors on paradeBRIDGETOWN - Fantasy Barbados recently launched their Crop Over 2012 premium band, Warriors of Africa, in the Walcott Warner Theatre at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, UWI, Cave Hill.
BRIDGETOWN - With an enviable record of 15 gold and a host of other awards won at the internationally popular Chelsea Flower Show, the Barbados Horticulture Society (BHS) was again gearing up early yesterday at Balls, Christ Church, where flowers of myriad hues, shapes and sizes were being readied for shipment to England.
BRIDGETOWN - The first two phases of Break Point is now complete, and thirty (30) CARIFORUM firms have been selected to participate in coaching before entering the first round of pitches scheduled for June 2012.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Maxine McClean, shares a light moment with Commissioner of India, Kanwal Jit Singh Sodhi, during the farewell courtesy callBRIDGETOWN (BGIS) - Barbados has been encouraged to actively pursue relations with its diaspora.
Prime Minister Freundel StuartBRIDGETOWN (BGIS) - This country is set to host one of the most important conferences on the 2012 calendar, when the Second CARICOM-Mexico Summit comes to Barbados, next Monday, May 21, at the Hilton Barbados.
BRIDGETOWN - Government is trying to find “a humane solution” to the situation confronting hundreds of retirees who served on statutory boards and have been advised they will be getting one pension instead of two.