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Opposition Leader Ralph Gonsalves speaking during the Budget Debate on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.

Gonsalves doubts VAT-free shopping generated $28m in sales

Leader of the Opposition, Ralph Gonsalves, is rebutting the New Democratic Party (NDP) government’s announcement that the nation’s first VAT Free Shopping Day, held on Dec. 19 generated EC$28 million…

13 Feb 2026 2:29AM

Budget 2026

Mia Mottley led the Barbados Labour Party to a third consecutive clean sweep of the polls in a general election on Wednesday.

Mottley leads BLP to third clean sweep in general election

12 Feb 2026 7:26AM

North Leeward MP and Tourism Minister, Kishore Shallow, left, speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2025, and former North Leeward MP nad Minister of Tourism, Carlos James, centre right, as he collected the award in Germany in March 2025.

Shallow wants James to say if he paid to be declared ‘Tourism Minister of the Year’

11 Feb 2026 8:21AM

An internet photo of a giant African snail.

Emergency response as giant African snail threatens SVG’s agriculture

11 Feb 2026 6:51AM

Gonsalves says govt should reverse decision not to host netball tourney

11 Feb 2026 6:16AM

President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, right, pose with Cuba health workers at a public hospital in Georgetown, St. Vincent in December 2020. (Photo: Facebook/ APISVG)

SVG to phase out reliance on Cuban district health officers

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (CMC) – Prime Minister Godwin Friday says the government will begin a three-year phase-out of the reliance on Cuban district medical officers, as he outlined a new…

11 Feb 2026 6:00AM

Budget 2026