by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Jan 17, 2023 | Top Stories
(Stock Photo) The process of developing a marine spatial plan for Barbados will get under way tomorrow, Wednesday, January 18, with an official launch at the Hilton Barbados Resort, Needham’s Point, St. Michael, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Minister of the Environment and...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Nov 4, 2022 | Top Stories
Permanent Secretary in the Blue Economy Division of the Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification, Sonia Foster, and Director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit, Dr. Leo Brewster, cheering following the unveiling of the Unit’s new logo. (GP) As...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | Oct 31, 2022 | Top Stories
Minister of the Environment and National Beautification, Adrian Forde, speaking at the launch of a week activities to mark Blue Fest 2022 under the theme: Telling our Story, in the Ministry’s Warrens Tower II conference room, last Friday. (C. Pitt/BGIS) Barbadians are...
by Government of Barbados | Sep 21, 2022 | creditors, Top Stories
(Stock Photo) The Government of Barbados announced today that it has closed a landmark debt conversion that will fund a domestic conservation fund and an endowment trust supporting durable large-scale conservation of the country’s fragile marine environment and...
by Julia Rawlins-Bentham | May 3, 2022 | Top Stories
A dead and sick urchin. (Photo: Coastal Zone Management Unit) Experts at the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU) are closely monitoring the first signs of local die-offs of the long-spined sea urchins (Diadema antillarum), known as cobblers, in the Sandy Lane, St....
