Despite high demand at retail markets where it is selling for good prices, lemon growers are failing to sell the produce at profitable rates due to a drop in the number of interested buyers at Bhimruli wholesale market in Jhalakathi Sadar.
It’s water, water everywhere. Strong current coupled by the fierce gales has inundated almost everything that can be seen through the eerie darkness. Women and children have been huddled in a boat tied up with a tree in a nearby jungle with men straining every nerve to survive the perilous night by grasping something firm.
As the crisis originating from the coronavirus deepens, people, especially the poor and needy, are looking up to their local leaders to deliver.
An inadequate supply of testing kits to detect the novel coronavirus across Barishal division has become a headache for doctors in the region.
As some people with more regularised jobs and businesses gradually begin to work from home or enter stay-home modes across the country, livelihoods of low-income people are being hit hard.
Coconut grower Shahinur was shocked to see how a single green coconut was being sold for Tk 80 in Barishal city near Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital. But, at her village, in close proximity to the city, she recently sold each coconut to traders for only Tk 12.
Fishermen of Elisha village and nearby areas in Bhola Sadar upazila can now aspire to be literate as a group of local youths under the banner of East Elisha Foundation, a voluntary organisation, started a school for them.
How long does it take to complete a two-year project for constructing a medical facility? For a government hospital struggling to cope with patient flow, the answer is more than a decade.
A part of the century-old Gabkhan Channel has been grabbed and turned into a temporary dock in Jhalakathi Sadar for loading and off-loading construction materials of a nearby highway.
Four marketing students of Barisal University (BU) have initiated a food start-up with a cart in the campus area, setting an example that no work is too small as long as it's honest.
The highways in Barisal division have become unsafe due to movement of thousands of unauthorised three-wheelers, most of which are locally improvised, slow-moving, and a major contributor to accidents, according to bus and car drivers.
The guava growers in Jhalakathi and Pirojpur are doing better profit, but the tourists who come to visit the floating guava market at Vimrul in Jhalakathi Sadar upazila expressed frustration due to lack of facilities.
A day after the Barisal City Cooperation election, Manisha Chakraborty, a mayoral aspirant from Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal, yesterday castigated the Election Commission for the alleged rigging and massive irregularities in the polls.
Timber trees are replacing fruit and medicinal trees in the district and adjacent areas, posing threat to ecological balance.
Speed breakers are supposed to save lives on the highway, but the case has been the other way around in Barisal region. In recent times, they have been the cause of fatal accidents, thanks to a lack of prominent marking and proper maintenance.
Crumbling ceiling, decaying walls and broken window panels and doors narrate the risky living conditions at the dormitories of Govt BM College, Barisal.
Born into a life of hardship, Rahat did not have a chance to go to school. At the age of nine, he now sells peanuts at Bangabandu Udyan in Barisal city to eke out a living.
Studies of two sisters have been stopped for the last one week due to continuous threat by some stalkers at Uttor Dhamura village of Uzirpur in Barishal.
