Prime Minister Mia Mottley Monday night announced a snap general election for January 19, next year. More than a year before it is constitutionally due. In a national broadcast. Mottley, the first woman to head a government here, said that Nomination Day will be in January...
The Barbados government has defended the decision to transition from sugar cane to medicinal marijuana indicating that the sugar industry was no longer generating the type of foreign currency expected. “We must transition to an industry that not only gives a new deal to all Barbadians,...
The Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) has called Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley's government a dictatorship for making vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for public workers. Incidentally, this sentiment has been previously expressed by the Opposition. JTUM President Ancel Roget hosted a virtual media conference on Monday where...
The death toll following the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year has risen to more than 200, with 52 other people still missing and several central towns and provinces grappling with downed communications and power outages and pleading for food and water, officials...
The Lower House of Antigua and Barbuda’s Parliament voted unanimously yesterday to approve a resolution to end the State of Emergency (SoE) and its accompanying curfew. Prime Minister Gaston Browne tabled the resolution to lift the curfew at 11:59 pm on December 23, which is four...