Full free movement ‘legally sound’ – Barbados AG

(Barbados Nation) Attorney General Dale Marshall is maintaining that the October 1 full free movement arrangement between Barbados, Belize, Domi-nica, and St Vincent and the Grenadines is on firm legal ground. Responding to concerns by the...

Why Culture Is The Next Frontier Of Economic Infrastructure

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - JANUARY 09: A general view of the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum on January 9, 2018 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Tom Dulat/Getty Images) Getty Images Roads, power grids, and digital networks are...

Barbados PM welcomes non-Bajans, urges registration in key agencies

People moving to take advantage of the free movement initiative implemented by four Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries, are being asked to register with the various state agencies in the country they choose in an effort to ensure smooth...

Barbados Crime: A Wound That Never Heals (+ Photos and Videos)

Havana, Oct. 6 - Forty-nine years have passed, and yet, October 6, 1976, feels close. Memory opens like a fresh wound, because pain doesn't expire, and neither does indignation. That day, a commercial airplane with 73 people on board was torn from...

Cuba honors victims of the Barbados bombing on the 49th anniversary of the crime

Commemorative events in Havana, other cities and in Venezuela remembered the 73 people killed in the sabotage against a Cuban civilian plane in 1976. The Cuban people paid tribute to the dozens of people killed at the hands of the anti-Cuban mafia...

A wound remains open 49 years after the Barbados crime

8 For Cubans born in the 1980s, the horrendous crime in Barbados remains an open wound that pierces our memories. Since we were children, we watched on television fragments of that memorable and moving speech by our Commander in Chief, as he bid...

Cuba denounces US impunity in Barbados terrorist crime

The crime carried out off the coast of Barbados, which claimed the lives of 73 people—57 Cubans, 11 Guyanese, and five Koreans—renews Cuba’s annual condemnation of the impunity that still surrounds the incident, despite the confessions of its...

New Barbados private sector head says non-communicable diseases are major threat

(Barbados Nation) New chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA), James “Jimmy” Clarke, says noncommunicable diseases are a major threat to the social fabric of the island. In his acceptance speech on Friday during a handover...

Global immigration news round up

This week, the Global Immigration team at Smith Stone Walters would like to highlight the following recent updates from Denmark, Hong Kong, Namibia, Portugal and Qatar. Denmark: No residence permits for nurse authorisations On 7 October 2025, the...

From wreckage to resilience: Bolstering Barbados’ fishing industry against hurricane impacts

Fishing vessels at the Bridgetown Fish Market, February 2025. Photo by Linton Arneaud, used with permission. By Destini Cummings, Jared Koon Koon, Darius, Leacock, Alexia Lovell, Tyrie Oxley and Linton Arneaud On July 1, 2024, Hurricane Beryl made...

Barbados Food and Rum Festival launched with flavour and flair

62 The 14th edition of the Barbados Food and Rum Festival was officially launched on Saturday at Golden Square Freedom Park, offering a mouth-watering preview of what’s to come with culinary delights prepared by some of the island’s top chefs. The...

CDB devising transformative strategy to optimise regional education system

Oct 06, 2025 News (Kaieteur News) – Caribbean Development Bank President Daniel M. Best delivering opening remarks at the 2025 Regional Symposium on Transforming Education, standing at a podium with microphones. Caribbean Development Bank...

Paws for Health brings care, education to Coverley

1 The Villages at Coverley came alive on Saturday as the Paws for Health event hosted by Action for Animals Barbados turned the playing field and pavilion into a lively hub celebrating World Animal Day. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the area became a...

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Leads Delegation To Commonwealth Meet In Barbados

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is leading an Indian Parliamentary delegation to attend the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) in Bridgetown, Barbados, an official said on Sunday. The Lok Sabha Speaker is scheduled to address...

Odisha Assembly Speaker to Attend 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Barbados

Odisha Assembly Speaker Surama Padhy will participate in the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) in Bridgetown, Barbados, along with other Indian delegates, an official said on Sunday. India’s Delegation at the CPC The Indian...

Barbados and Dominica sign landmark MOU to boost Caribbean tourism with multi-destination packages

Two Caribbean islands one called the gem of Caribbean and the other called as the nature isle have signed a landmark memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote joint tourism initiatives including multi-destination packages. This agreement signed...

Odisha Assembly Speaker to attend 68th CPC in Barbados

Bhubaneswar, Odisha Assembly Speaker Surama Padhy will participate in the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Bridgetown, Barbados, along with other Indian delegates, an official said. Odisha Assembly Speaker to attend 68th CPC in...

Barbados, Belize, Dominica & St. Vincent and the Grenadines greenlight full, free movement 

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States -Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines- implemented full Free Movement of their nationals among themselves from Wednesday, 1 October 2025. This means that nationals of these four...

Odisha Speaker Surama Padhy to attend Commonwealth meet in Barbados

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Speaker Surama Padhy will participate in the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) in Bridgetown, Barbados, along with other Indian delegates, an official said. The CPC is the annual conference of the...

‘Laugh of the River’ for NCC next week after Barbados premiere

A new play is about to be performed at the National Cultural Centre which aims to bring a difference to Guyana and exhibit entertaining drama that is modern, far reaching in story, themes and subjects while exploring the frontiers of advanced...