May 2025

Barbados On WTO’s Fish Fund Steering Committee

Barbados’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the WTO, and other international organisations in Geneva, Matthew Wilson (third row, right), poses with outgoing and incoming members of the WTO Fish Fund Steering Committee. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade) Barbados was one of eight countries selected on Monday, May 19, to be on the

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Barbados Delegation Concludes Disaster Management Consultations In Cuba

An official Barbados delegation headed by Minister of Home Affairs and Information, Hon. Wilfred Abrahams, is expressing satisfaction with the outcome of a week-long visit to Cuba. They spent the week of 5 to 9 May in an intensive programme of consultations with the National General Staff of Civil Defense in Cuba. It is the

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BWA Receives Assistance To Reduce Non-Revenue Water Wastage

From left to right – CAF’s Regional Manager for the Caribbean, Dr. Stacy Richards-Kennedy; Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley; and acting CEO of the Barbados Water Authority, Christopher Mapp, signing the US$700, 000 grant agreement last Friday. Looking on are Minister of Economic Affairs and Investment – Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment, Kay

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Home Affairs Minister Meets With Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister

Minister of Home Affairs and Information, Wilfred Abrahams, and Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, pose for a photo following a courtesy call at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs last Friday. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade) Minister of Home Affairs and Information, Wilfred Abrahams, paid a courtesy call on Cuba’s Deputy

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Suggested Format for Submission of Biographical Datafor the Pride of Barbados Award

PRIDE OF BARBADOS – awarded to a person who is a citizen of Barbados or is entitled to be registered as a citizen of Barbados; or is a permanent resident of Barbados and through sacrifice, diligence and dedication to service has made an outstanding contribution to community life in a parish in Barbados or to

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Prime Minister: Barbados Will Keep Relationship With IMF Open

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley chatting with IMF Mission Chief, Michael Perks, following a press conference at Ilaro Court on Thursday. Looking on is Central Bank Governor, Dr. Kevin Greenidge. (C. Pitt/BGIS) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Barbados have reached a staff-level agreement on the completion of the fifth and final reviews of the

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Barbados Leads Discussion On Addressing Plastics Pollution

Ambassador of Barbados to the United Nations, WTO and other International Organizations in Geneva, Matthew Wilson, speaking at a high-level event in Geneva, Switzerland, last Friday. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade) Barbados took the lead in a discussion addressing plastic pollution last Friday in Geneva at a high-level event, during the Conferences of

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