by Joy-Ann Gill | Apr 12, 2021 | Top Stories
Volcanic ash in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (Photo: The UWI Seismic Research Centre) Volcanic ash is toxic for animals, but it can prove beneficial to crop farmers, in the long term. This was divulged on VOB’s Brass Tacks Sunday programme, where experts from the...
by Fabian Belgrave | Apr 9, 2021 | Top Stories
https://youtu.be/4Hn1oIf6k2g?t=56 Press conference hosted by the Minister of Home Affairs, Wilfred Abrahams re: the eruption of La Soufriere volcano in St. Vincent – April 9, 2021. (PMO) Barbadians have been advised that volcanic ash poses a potential danger to...
by Sharon Austin | Aug 26, 2020 | Corona Virus, Top Stories
(Stock Photo) COVID-19 protocols have now been put in place at the Ministry of Agriculture’s Animal Reception Centre (ARC), at the Grantley Adams International Airport, in an effort to protect staff from any exposure to the disease. Veterinary Officer at Veterinary...
by Sharon Austin | Aug 22, 2020 | Top Stories
Minister of Agriculture, Indar Weir (second right) ; Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Peter Phillips (far right); and acting Chief Agricultural Officer, Leslie Brereton, listening attentively to Lab Manager David Elcock during the tour. (S. Austin/BGIS) The...
by BGIS | Apr 22, 2020 | Top Stories
(Stock Image) The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security’s Veterinary Services Department will be working with the Royal Barbados Police Force to bring the persons guilty of participating in the burning of a monkey, to justice. This was revealed in a statement...