January 2025

Prime Minister Mottley Among Honourees For Zayed Award For Human Fraternity

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley. (FP) The Zayed Award for Human Fraternity today announced its 2025 honorees: Prime Minister of Barbados and climate change champion The Honorable Mia Amor Mottley, SC, MP, humanitarian organization World Central Kitchen founded by Chef José Andrés, and 15-year-old health innovator Heman Bekele – the award’s first youth honoree. The award, […]

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Barbados Represented For 1st Time At WTO Mini-Ministerial In Davos

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds (centre), addressing the meeting as coordinator of Africa, Caribbean, Pacific Group in Geneva. Sitting behind him is Barbados’s Ambassador to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and other International Organizations in Geneva, Matthew Wilson. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade) Barbados was represented for

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Barbados & Brazil To Deepen Relationship

Caption: Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley; Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira; and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds, in discussion following their meeting at Ilaro Court, today. (C. Pitt/BGIS) Barbados and Brazil have agreed to deepen their existing relationship. This agreement was one of the main outcomes following a meeting

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Building Capacity, Strengthening Trade Policy

Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade hosted a highly engaging Trade Policy Workshop, bringing together key stakeholders to delve into critical trade issues impacting Barbados and our alignment with the World Trade Organization framework. This workshop was constructed after our Economist Keisha Goddard completed the WTO’s Advanced Trade Policy Course in Geneva,

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Minister Symmonds Welcomes Guyana’s New Consul General

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds, presents a welcome gift to Guyana’s new Consul General to Barbados, Harry Gill, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, today. (S. Forde-Craigg/BGIS) The Cooperative Republic of Guyana has a new Consul General to Barbados. He is Harry Gill.  Minister of Foreign Affairs and

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