by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Dec 23, 2020 | Ministry News
Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs, Wilfred Abrahams (left) poses for a photograph with the ‘man of the moment’, retiring Senior Immigration Officer, Theophilus Orlando “Wally” Walcott. (J. Rawlins-Bentham/BGIS) A walk through a guard...
by BGIS | Aug 11, 2020 | Corona Virus, Top Stories
Visitors arriving at the Grantley Adams International Airport. (FP) Travellers to Barbados are reminded that they must adhere to all COVID-19 protocols, as set out in the Emergency Management COVID-19 Protocol (No.2) Directive, 2020. Visitors attending private...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Apr 16, 2019 | Top Stories
All efforts are being made to repatriate Juan Abraham Ramirez Rijo to the Dominican Republic. But, to date, those efforts have been hampered as Mr. Rijo has no identification or travel documents to confirmed his identity or nationality. This is according to a...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Apr 16, 2019 | Ministry News
Training for border security officials must be a priority, if Barbados wants to guarantee, and continue to attain the highest standards in the maintenance of law and order in the country. And, according to Chief Immigration Officer, Wayne Marshall, joint border...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Sep 17, 2018 | banner, Top Stories
Persons applying for Barbados passports for the first time, or those seeking to renew them, will now be issued with an e-passport. This comes as the Barbados Immigration Department commences the phasing out of the machine-readable passport for the e-passport,...