Tag: Mia Mottley
Jan 19 (Reuters) – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Thursday celebrated a landslide victory in the Caribbean nation’s first general election since it became a republic last year by removing Britain’s queen as sovereign ...
The presence of Grammy-winning superstar entertainer Shaggy is being felt on the campaign trail in Barbados, with his 2002 release, Strength of a Woman, being used as in the campaign song by Mia Mottley. “This one goes ...
ST LUCY, Barbados – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley says the Opposition has filed an injunction to stop the country’s general election scheduled for Wednesday. Mottley made the announcement during a campaign stop in St ...
Less than 48 hours before Barbadians go to the polls, an injunction has been filed in the High Court to call off the general election and action brought against President Dame Sandra Mason and the ...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Leaders of the two main political parties in Barbados remained confident of victory in the January 19 general elections, as candidates were nominated on Monday to contest the snap election that Prime ...
Barbados has officially removed Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become the world’s newest republic. In an overnight ceremony in the capital, Bridgetown, Dame Sandra Mason was sworn in as president. The ...
Barbados’s decision to become a republic is strongly symbolic given its painful past as a key centre in the slave trade. Next week Barbados will finally cast off its imperial links with Britain nearly 400 years after ...
Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley has taken the Government to task for leaving “God” out of the Charter of Barbados, declaring that God cannot be thrown out with the monarch as Barbados prepares its transition ...
LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Barbados, a former British colony, will next week ditch Queen Elizabeth as head of state, breaking its last remaining imperial bonds with Britain nearly 400 years since the first English ...
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS – A king was dead and a bloody civil war—cast as Parliament versus the Crown—was finally coming to an end. But for the ruling class and sugar tycoons in one of Europe’s richest ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Monday December 9, 2019 – Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley has accepted, on behalf of her regional colleagues, space in an ultra-modern business complex in Nairobi, Kenya, to be the home of a joint ...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday November 22, 2019 – Government has vowed to do all in its power to bring back stability and normalcy to Barbados after two days of extensive power outages. Prime Minister Mia Mottley expressed ...
ST JOHN’S – The Antigua and Barbuda government has confirmed that negotiations with Barbados to become the majority shareholder in the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, “have been put on hold”. Antigua and Barbuda is seeking ...
CARICOM chairman Allen Chastanet on Tuesday urged help for hurricane-hit Bahamas in a statement, while several Caribbean leaders pledged help. Caricom secretary-general Irwin LaRocque said, “The Caribbean Community stands with the Bahamas at this very ...
The waves of Sargassum seaweed heading toward Barbados and its neighbours could be as devastating to national economies as a strong tropical storm or a Category 1 hurricane. That was the warning from Prime Minister ...