July 2025

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations, François Jackman, addressing the High-Level International Conference on Palestine on behalf of CARICOM, in the UN General Assembly. (GP) CARICOM countries have condemned the ongoing destruction and loss of life in Gaza, Palestine, and have called on the parties to work towards a two-state solution. […]

Dr. James Roberston graduated from the Victoria de Girón Faculty of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba. (GP) Barbadian James Stuart Alexander Robertson is the most recent student in Cuba to graduate from medical school. He was among the cohort graduating from the Victoria de Girón Faculty of Medical Sciences in Havana on Thursday, July 24, 2025. Dr.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds, greets India’s High Commissioner to Barbados, Shri Subhash Prasad Gupta, at their courtesy call yesterday. (S. Forde-Craigg/BGIS) India’s High Commissioner to Barbados, Shri Subhash Prasad Gupta, and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds, have met to discuss advancing key areas of cooperation and

Barbados’ Ambassador to Panama, Amanda Martinez (left), in discussion with Panama’s President, José Raúl Mulino and Minister of Foreign Relations, Javier Martínez-Acha Vásquez at the Palacio de Las Garzas on Wednesday, July 23. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade) Barbados’ new Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, Amanda Martinez, has presented her credentials to

From left to right – Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Yanet Stable Cárdenas; First Vice Minister, Ministry of Food Industry, Javier Aguiar Rodríguez; Barbados’ Ambassador to Cuba, Dr. Sharon Marshall; Director General for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Trade, William Díaz; and Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ministry of Foreign Trade, Martha Castillo. (Ministry

The Embassy of Barbados in the Republic of Panama, in collaboration with the Division of Culture, Prime Minister’s Office, the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, and the United Panamanian Afrodescendants Association (AAPU), recently hosted a Genealogical Workshop at the Hilton Panama entitled: Our Heritage: From Barbados to Panama. The first of its kind hosted by the

The regional CARICOM coordinating body on trade, the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), has taken a “bold step” to support the region’s paint industry with the alteration of the Common External Tariff (CET) on paints and varnishes to 35 per cent. The decision, which takes effect from July 1, 2026, was made by COTED Ministers

A groundbreaking Barbados-based renewable energy project took centre stage at the 25th United Nations (UN) Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP), held in New York from June 16 to 20. At the UN ICP meeting, co-chaired by Barbados’ Permanent Representative to the UN, François Jackman, and Ambassador and