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May 21, 2014919
Barbados to Develop “Blueprint” For Science, Technology Education
Barbados’ government says it is planning to develop a “blueprint” to reform its Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teaching across its education system. Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development Minister Dr Esther Byer Suckoo pointed this week to what she saw as the “need to create a culture of research, innovation and entrepreneurship” in Barbados. “STEM education opens…
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May 9, 2014753
Cultural Heritage tourism a fast growing niche for countries
Barbados must move with haste to cash in on the benefits to be made from the fast-growing cultural heritage tourism niche. Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Richard Sealy, offered this suggestion to scores of preservationists attending the 1st Caribbean Conference of National Trusts and Preservation Societies yesterday at the Savannah Hotel. Noting there were significant gains to be made…
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April 15, 2014778
EDITORIAL: Girvan’s vision for single economy
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – NOTED THINKERS, scholars and decision-makers of the Caribbean Community continue to offer moving tributes to the remarkable contributions of Dr Norman Girvan who died last week in Havana, Cuba, where he was undergoing emergency medical attention following serious injuries suffered from a fall while on a visit to Dominica. Death came for the Jamaican-born economist,…
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April 15, 2014681
Lunar eclipse
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – Just after 3 a.m. today, the moon turned red. The lunar eclipse started after 1 a.m. and about two hours later, the full effects were visible from several places across Barbados and the world. According to Ricardo Small, president and director of the board of the Barbados Astronomical Society, the red moon phenomenon is caused…
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April 15, 2014746
BARBADOS-LABOUR-No breakthrough in talks to end sugar workers strike
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Labour Minister Dr Esther Byer Suckoo is expected to continue talks here on Tuesday after talks with officials of the of the Barbados Agricultural Management Corporation (BAMC) and the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) failed to end a six-day strike by sugar workers on Monday. Workers at the island’s lone sugar factory Portvale have been off the…
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April 9, 2014972
Shine bright
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The diversity of the student body across the campuses of the University of the West Indies (UWI) reflects that of the Caribbean population itself. Therefore, notwithstanding the growing segment of students coming from outside of the region, Caribbean students alone provide the multicultural mixture that many universities around the world try to emulate. The reason for…
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April 9, 2014665
Inniss calls for change in development designations
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – There is a belief that CARICOM’s designation of its Member States as Less Development Countries (LDCs) and More Developed Countries (MDCs) is now somewhat counterproductive and should be changed. So says this country’s Minister of Industry, Commerce, International Business and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss. He made the point during an interview with the media yesterday…
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March 28, 2014807
CARIBBEAN-TOURISM-Public and private sectors unite towards sustainability of tourist destinations
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, , CMC -In an effort to assist some of the world’s most popular travel destinations that are vulnerable to issues such as climate change and unsustainable development, the new Sustainable Destinations Alliance for the Americas (SDAA), was launched here on Thursday. The alliance stems from the largest scale effort to date through which public and private entities have…
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March 14, 2014747
Standards called into question
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – As of yesterday, six days after being declared missing, there had been no word on the whereabouts of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. Speculation grows every hour as reports, official and otherwise, and even conspiracy theories, continue to trickle in via the Internet and other news sources. It is expected that the mystery will be solved soon,…
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March 14, 20141,126
Public health crisis has links to slavery
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – THE African-descended population in the Caribbean has the highest incidence in the world of chronic diseases, in the forms of hypertension and type two diabetes. This pandemic is the direct result of the nutritional experience, physical and emotional brutality and overall stress profile associated with slavery, genocide and apartheid. This is the information contained in a…
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