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Small-island states face ‘clear and present danger’
The Royal Gazette
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September 5, 2025
Created: Sep 05, 2025 08:00 AM Trucks transport tanks east from Valencia, Venezuela last week after the government announced a military mobilisation following the American deployment of warships off Venezuela (Photograph by Jacinto Oliveros) An...
Human development ‘not progressing’
The Nation Barbados
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September 5, 2025
Human development in the region has not been progressing since the COVID-19 pandemic. That is the finding of the 2025 Human Development Report. Rodrigo Barraza, Sustainable Development Goals technical specialist at the United Nations Development...
This week in entertainment: From Giorgio Armani's death to podcast controversies and Sol Phenduka's exit
IOL
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September 5, 2025
Lawsuits, reunions, tributes, new podcast shows and a major anniversary drove the entertainment conversation this week. Here’s a fresh wrap of the biggest local and international stories over the past seven days. Italian fashion designer Georgio...
School enrollment stable for some, scant for others
Adirondack Daily Enterprise - New York
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From left, Peyton Fobare, kindergarten; Weston Lonstreet, first grade; Anna Rule, first grade, and Geinny Fobare, fourth grade, do a “silly one” as their parents take first-day-of-school pictures outside Shelley’s Daycare in Gabriels as they wait...
Girl inspires national clean-up
The Nation Barbados
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August 17, 2025
Inspired by a primary school student, Government is launching a national clean-up programme to make a dent in Barbados’ bulk waste. During a media conference on Friday, Minister of Environment and National Beautification Adrian Forde revealed the...
Edison Sumner Among Regional Judges for CIBC Caribbean’s Unsung Heroes Campaign
ZNS
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September 4, 2025
A panel of five distinguished persons has been assembled to decide the first regional winners of the relaunched CIBC Caribbean Unsung Heroes. The panel is headed by Independent Senator in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament, Senator Francis Lewis a...
When Sport Becomes a Passport: The G.O.A.T. Sport–Destination Partnerships of All Time
Breaking Travel News
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September 4, 2025
Sport as a Gateway to Nations From the first Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, when travelers flocked to Olympia to witness athletic feats, sport has been bound to tourism. The modern Olympics (1896) revived that spirit on a global stage, proving...
Camp coordinator says children less fit, struggling to reason
Barbados Today
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September 4, 2025
201 After two decades working with the National Council on Substance Abuse’s youth camp, Makeada Bourne says she has never seen children so physically unfit, or so unable to reason through simple problems. The Substance Abuse Prevention Officer...
What would success look like at Africa Climate Summit 2?
China Dialogue Ocean
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September 4, 2025
Africa’s largest climate-focused gathering of the year will begin on 8 September in Addis Ababa. Coming just two months before the COP30 UN climate negotiations in Brazil, the stakes are unusually high for the Second Africa Climate Summit. The...
Government delays enforcement of tint law
Barbados Today
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August 30, 2025
1.9K The enforcement of Barbados’ new tint legislation has been postponed by three months, just short of the September 1 date it was originally scheduled to take effect. There has also been a relaxation of some of the stipulations. The moratorium...
TKR soar to top of CPL with victory over Royals
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 30, 2025
Sports Jelani Beckles 19 Minutes Ago Brandon King of Barbados Royals bats during the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League match against Trinbago Knight Riders at Brian Lara Cricket Academy on August 29, 2025 in Tarouba. - ( CPL T20) Trinbago...
Male nurses still scarce, recruitment efforts lacking
Barbados Today
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August 30, 2025
61 Despite growing concern about the lack of male nurses in Barbados, there are still no formal programmes aimed at encouraging more men to enter the profession. Director of Nursing at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Henderson Pinder,...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, July 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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September 4, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
47 schools benefit from summer renovations
Barbados Today
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August 30, 2025
116 Major school repair and upgrade works are on course for completion before classes resume, the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) said Friday, marking the first time in years that critical improvements are expected to be finished prior to the...
Call for culture shift as male nurses remain scarce
Barbados Today
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August 29, 2025
13 Senior Caribbean medical professionals warned that entrenched cultural attitudes are deterring men from entering nursing, leaving the profession overwhelmingly female at a time of critical shortages. Speaking to reporters at the Nurses’ Pinning...
Bermudian writer joins host of Caribbean literary voices
The Royal Gazette
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September 2, 2025
Created: Sep 02, 2025 02:23 PM (Updated: Sep 02, 2025 02:23 PM) Tiara Webb, second left, with Jaiku poets of Jamaica, poetry judge V. Steve Russell and Nailah Imoja, Carifesta literary arts co-ordinator (Photograph supplied) Bermuda’s own Tiara...
CPL 2025: Munro and Pooran power Knight Riders to the top of the table
News Room
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August 30, 2025
Colin Munro and Nicholas Pooran led a clinical chase as Trinbago Knight Riders brushed aside Barbados Royals by seven wickets in Tarouba to rise to the top of the CPL 2025 table. Chasing 179, Munro set the tone with a typically aggressive 67 while...
Cayman Museum News: August 2025
I News Cayman
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September 3, 2025
From Cayman Islands National Museum Could this be the old Courts Building from the 1800s? This photograph, published in an 1896 Presbyterian Church journal, bears the caption: “Group under almond tree in front of Court House, George Town, Grand...
Caribbean Disability Network (CDN) announces phase two of Caribbean Disability Summit: ‘Breaking barriers: advancing inclusive education for all abilities’
Dominica News Online
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August 29, 2025
The Caribbean Disability Network (CDN), in partnership with the Government of Barbados through its Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs, along with the Barbados Council for the Disabled and other governmental bodies, has announced the...
Camillo urges voters to allow PM to implement vision for SVG
I Witness News
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August 28, 2025
Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves is urging Vincentians to return the Unity Labour Party (ULP) to a sixth consecutive five-year term in office, saying his father, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, should be allowed to continue implementing his...