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This year's lead coordinator of Arbour Month in Antigua and Barbuda - a senior environment officer in the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Environment - stressed how planting trees is critical to preventing further environmental destruction

A +8.5% economic growth is to be expected for the country this year, according to the latest studies presented by Finance Minister Jose Manuel Restrepo

Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic and the explosive eruption in April of the La Soufriere volcano, for the 2021 CSEC cohort at St. Martin's Secondary School, a 94,07% pass rate was recorded in the July/August examination session

The country celebrated its 43 years of independence yesterday with the National Day ceremony; this year's independence has been observed under the theme: "United in Purpose, Our Health, Our Heritage, Our Future"

Barbados' Under-20 men's football team left the island today for Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where they will participate in Group C of the Concacaf qualifiers for the 2023 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Indonesia

The nation will begin a transition to sustainable energy, with the aim of producing 25% of their energy renewably by 2025

A new stretch of road in Cherry Hill serving agricultural areas has been completed under the Government’s Agricultural Feeder Road Project; at the inauguration last week officials announced that more construction sites will open soon

Latest police statistics show farming is the occupation with the third-most charges for serious crimes over the last five years, behind unemployed people and labourers; farming groups and associations are 'stunned'

More than 100 women and children were abducted in the first eight months of 2021 and more than 15.000 people left their homes due to violence, according to a UNICEF appeal

The country signed a treaty with Nicaragua in order to formally establish their maritime boundaries, therefore supporting stability and development in the shared Gulf of Fonseca

Ottawa surprised the natural resources industry with the appointment of a former Greenpeace activist as new environment minister this week, but experts expect a fair representation of the country at the COP26 climate conference beginning today in Glasgow

For the first time in 15 years, the European Union sent EU observers to overlook the Venezuelan general elections that will be taking place in less than a month

A series of journalist kidnappings sparked manifestations about freedom of speech and expression; protesters claim that the government must protect this fundamental human right more effectively