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Barbados set for Caribbean’s largest green hydrogen plant
Barbados Today
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August 9, 2025
80 Barbados is poised to become home to the largest and most technologically advanced renewable energy power plant in the English-speaking Caribbean, with construction of a $350 million hybrid facility expected to begin by March next year, senior...
Interception & Accountability: Can Barbados’ new surveillance law protect both security and privacy?
Barbados Today
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August 12, 2025
34 At the time of writing, the government has introduced the Interception of Communications Act, 2025, in Parliament for debate. So far, it has received bipartisan support, clearing the way for law enforcement to add another powerful tool to its...
Barbados joins CARICOM call to Trump to safeguard IICA farm aid
Barbados Today
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August 8, 2025
138 Barbados has joined a coalition of business, political, diplomatic, academic and social leaders from across the Americas appealing to the Donald Trump administration not to withdraw vital funding from the hemisphere’s key agricultural agency,...
A partnership beyond financial health – COB Co-op Credit Union Ltd and ChemScreen Laboratory Services Inc. team up
Barbados Today
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August 11, 2025
60 Members of the City of Bridgetown Co-operative Credit Union Limited (COB) can now enjoy exclusive discounts at ChemScreen Laboratory Services Inc. (ChemScreen) — Barbados’ only private, internationally accredited medical laboratory which...
Integrated Science book to guide young scientists
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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August 11, 2025
Primary school students with an interest in science now have a new resource to guide them through the learning process. Author of Integrated Science for Young Caribbean Scientists Book 1, Ingrid Armstrong-Walcott, said she was inspired to write...
SOS Biotech: turning the tide on invasive seaweed
The Fish Site
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Elena Martinez, co-founder of SOS Biotech on a sargassum-covered beach 37 million tonnes of the invasive seaweed has already washed up in the Caribbean this year © SOS Biotech “At the moment you have an outcome, it’s raw material – no longer...
Barbados Advances Regulatory System with PAHO Support to Boost Local Health Production Capacity
Pan American Health Organization
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August 7, 2025
Washington DC, USA, August 7, 2025 – Barbados is moving forward with its industrial policy to increase local production capacity of medicines and health technologies by strengthening its national regulatory system. With technical support from the...
Caribbean youth deliver big ideas at science and engineering showcase
Barbados Today
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August 10, 2025
31 From designing ergonomic scoliosis braces to programming original video games, the region’s brightest young minds showcased their talents as the 14th Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering (SPISE) concluded on Saturday. The...
Our Work in Latin America and the Caribbean Has Only Just Begun
The Rockefeller Foundation
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August 18, 2025
“Local people and partners have to be part of the work we do,” she says. “We come with a well-respected brand, but we need community engagement and to listen to their knowledge. You can only do that here; it can’t happen in an office in D.C.” The...
Skulls in the vault: How two scholars may have been targets for racial 'science'
The Herald (Scotland)
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August 9, 2025
The eldest and second son respectively of a European father who practised medicine on Barbadian sugar plantations and owner of enslaved people, and a mother of African descent, the brothers made their home in the New Town’s Frederick Street. But...
‘Pierless’ – the myriad photographic opportunities of Barbados’ Cement Pier
Dive Magazine
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August 8, 2025
Neon gobies on the coral beneath the cement plant pier make ideal subjects for macro and super macro shots (Photo: Catherine Holmes) The jetty of a working cement plant on the west coast of Barbados offers unrivalled opportunities for honing...
Barbados ‘likely’ to feel fallout from rising inflation
The Nation Barbados
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August 1, 2025
Inflation has increased in the United States (US) and Central Bank Governor Dr Kevin Greenidge believes that based on Barbados’ fixed exchange rate and its reliance on the US market, this could negatively impact prices in the coming months. In the...
Best things to do in Barbados
The Independent (U.S.)
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August 6, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Barbados renews commitment to fighting human trafficking
Caribbean National Weekly
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July 31, 2025
The Barbados Government has reaffirmed its commitment to tackling human trafficking, aligning with global efforts to dismantle criminal networks that profit from exploitation and human suffering. - Advertisement - In a statement marking World Day...
Inside the world’s largest sailing yacht set to launch in 2026
The Independent (U.S.)
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August 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
BiMPay ‘will boost fintech appeal’
The Nation Barbados
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August 17, 2025
Governor of the Central Bank, Dr Kevin Greenidge, says the introduction of BiMPay next year will be a “game changer” for Barbados, significantly boosting its appeal to fintech companies while also easing some of the hurdles young people face in...
Barbados joins fight against human trafficking
CNC 3
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July 30, 2025
The Barbados government Wednesday pledged to work with national, regional and international partners in the fight against human trafficking that it says is driven by criminal networks that thrive on the exploitation of and generation of huge...
Barbados boosts MSME financing with multi-million dollar loan
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Barbados is enhancing access to finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) through a US$50 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The Washington-based financial institution said...
CDB Secures Landmark Green Climate Fund Resources for Energy Sector Transformation in Barbados, Belize, and Jamaica
Caymanian Times
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Barbados, Belize and Jamaica will benefit from US$ 26.7 million in funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for an innovative energy initiative that will be implemented by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB, the Bank). The landmark “Scaling up...
Scientists Just Rediscovered the World’s Smallest Snake — Thought Lost for 20 Years
ZME Science
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July 29, 2025
During a routine survey in a patch of forest in central Barbados, researchers lifted a rock and found something unexpected in the soil: a tiny, thread-thin snake, shorter than a finger and no thicker than a noodle. It was Tetracheilostoma carlae,...