Many years ago, a tutor conducting a management studies class asked the group what the duty of a manager was.
Each student gave an answer with which the tutor agreed and wrote on the board.
After...
Death shock
Last Saturday night Cheryl Archer experienced a series of “strange” events that left her with an uneasy feeling. Two days later she received the news that no mother wants to hear – her last child Ricardo...
New BARP insurance from May 1
Over 9 000 members of the Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP) will be covered again under a new health insurance plan from May 1.
“It is all go,” BARP’s president Ed Bushell said, as he...
Interns told: Pay or not, take job
Many companies are unable to offer paid internships for job attachments, but scores of youth are being encouraged to take up the opportunities.
During the opening of the Barbados Youth Service’s (BYS)...
Film workshops ‘a success’
Over 60 established and fledgling film producers took part in the recently concluded Barbados Cultural Industries Development Authority’s (BCIDA) Joint Training Workshop Series.
The workshops, which...
Helping hand for coconut vendors
More stringent health and safety standards will be instituted for coconut vendors as the demand for coconut water increases. These include sterilising tools and the worktable, the use of hairnets and aprons,...
Aidonia rocks the crowd
The 2018 Magnum Tonic Wine Reggae Beach Party on Sunday night was everything patrons could have wanted.
Based on the crowd response from the thousands who gathered at Pirates Cove, Bay Street, St Michael,...
Limping start
Injuries to national netballers, which saw the Bajan Gems underperforming at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games Down Under in Australia, may be creating even bigger ripples in the current Division...
Paradise crush Rendezvous
Paradise were at their irresistible best on Sunday night, inflicting a merciless 8-2 thrashing on their rivals Rendezvous in the Barbados Football Association’s Premier League.
Brittons Hill and champions...
Tri-series for hockey girls
The Barbados Hockey Federation (BHF) is planning a tri-nation series to prepare the national women’s team for the forthcoming Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games slated for Barranquilla, Colombia....
Big Four reach the semis
The big four are through to the final four. The Co-operators General Insurance Premier League Basketball Knockout Competition certainly stuck to script as all four title contenders advanced with contrasting...
Simpson, Sealy the champs
Orson Simpson had to run through all the tricks in his bag to overcome Clifford Nolan and capture the men’s Over-60 crown in the finals of the Barbados National Masters Squash Championships at the Barbados...
Elite duo for Apes Hill
This year’s Massy United Apes Hill Ladies International Polo Tournament will feature two of the top female players in the world.
This was revealed during a press conference to launch the event at Apes...
Former US President George H.W. Bush admitted to Houston hospital
AUSTIN, Texas – Former US President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a Houston hospital on Sunday after contracting an infection that spread to his blood, a family spokesman said on Monday.
Bush, 93,...
Driver kills nine, injures 16 ploughing van onto Toronto sidewalk: police
TORONTO – A driver ploughed his white Ryder rental van into a crowd, killing nine people and injuring 16 along a roughly mile-long stretch of busy Toronto sidewalk during lunch hour on a sunny Monday afternoon,...
QEH: Emergency surgeries only
If you are scheduled to have surgery this week at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), it may be cancelled.
That’s because at an emergency meeting on Thursday, the surgeons decided it would be...
Ministry of Education to roll out anti-violence campaign
The Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation will launch a comprehensive anti-violence campaign early next month to address the issue of violence in schools.
Themed Peace Begins with...
Ralph Thorne: Prepared to serve
Family, God and the Golden Rule.
They account for the biggest influences in Ralph Thorne’s life. Couple that with discipline and love for basketball and you have the formula for a man on a focused...
'Cut off hands': Mexican presidential candidate's plan to deter thieves
MEXICO CITY – Thieves should have their hands chopped off, a Mexican presidential candidate said in a televised debate on Sunday, provoking disbelief from a moderator and setting off a storm of comments...
Gibbs give of their best for 50 years
Fifty years is definitely not fifty days. One couple who knows this full well is Ricardo and Lelia Gibbs, who have been married for 50 years.
The now retired couple celebrated their milestone anniversary...
Zimbabwe sets up special courts for election violence
HARARE – Zimbabwe has established special courts to deal with cases of political violence, the police said on Monday, part of the government’s drive to curtail unrest and intimidation ahead of the first...
Union tells Supreme Court workers to stay off job
President of the National Union of Public Workers Akanni McDowall and general secretary Roslyn Smith have advised the workers of the Supreme Court complex to return home.
This follows a meeting this...
Updated: Body of young man found at Bibby's Lane
Update: The deceased has been identified as Ricardo Archer.
Lawmen have another unnatural death on their hands.
The body of an 18-year-old male was found in his home at 3rd Avenue Bibby's Lane,...
It's a boy: UK's Prince William, Kate have third child
LONDON – Kate, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a boy at a hospital in London on Monday, the third child for the British royal couple and now fifth in line to the throne.
Kensington Palace...
China pledges support for new Cuban president
BEIJING – China says it’s ready and willing to work with Cuba’s newly elected president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, to expand bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
Diaz-Canal, the former first...
Air France says 25 per cent of flights could be cancelled on Monday
PARIS − Air France KLM’s French unit is predicting that 25 per cent of its flights will be cancelled on Monday, on the 10th day of a strike by staff over pay.
In a statement on Sunday, the airline...