Barbadian youth advocate Pierre Cooke has called on Director-General of the World Health Organisation Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley to prioritise mental health as part of their global agenda. Addressing an international audience of health ministers and other health officials at the SIDS Ministerial Conference on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health...

Those troublesome trans fats should be gone from Barbadian shelves in a year’s time. Barbados’ Minister of Health and Wellness, Senator The Most Honourable Dr Jerome Walcott confirmed the island was on course to end the importation of foods with trans fats by December 2024. It’s all part of the country’s process of protecting consumers of the dangerous ingredients in food that can lead to the onse...

The Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) is currently tracking the progress of a tropical wave located on the West African coast along 18W. This system is expected to track westward to west-northwestward within the next seven days. Model guidance suggests the wave will pass north of Barbados sometime next week Friday June 23, 2023, and any development of this system is expected to be slow at thi...

Five new faces, including an England-based player, have been named in the national football squad for the historic FIFA international friendly match against Honduras in New Orleans, United States, slated for Sunday. Leicester City teenage midfielder Abdullah Javaid gets a first-time call-up along with Brittons Hill United star forward Corey Hoyte, Empire goalkeeper Jerome Blackman and his teammate...

The international cost of food will continue to fall this year and in 2024, but there will be no return to pre-COVID-19 pandemic prices. That is the latest assessment from international economic forecasting firm, Oxford Economics. In an analysis titled How Long Will The Relief From Falling Food Prices Last?, Oxford Economics economist, Diego Cacciapuoti said: “We expect global food prices to conti...