Students aged 16 and over, as well as parents, could soon find themselves behind bars or facing hefty fines for assaulting or threatening teachers, as the authorities vowed to enforce long-ignored laws in response to a surge in violence in schools.

The government is preparing a new public education drive to address lingering doubts about the country’s digital ID cards and build wider trust in its technology‑based national projects

Two Caribbean lexicographers are compiling the region’s first general-purpose English dictionary to bridge linguistic gaps in education; the project is a landmark effort to validate Caribbean language and ensure school children are not disadvantaged

Barbados is poised to become home to the largest and most technologically advanced renewable energy power plant in the English-speaking Caribbean, with construction of a $350 million hybrid facility expected to begin by March next year

Barbados, with the Marine Institute of Ireland, is starting a mapping of its seafloor few small islands have attempted on such a large-scale: it will include part of its EEZ, 432 times larger than its land area; work to cover fully will take years