In this paper, a parameter-uniform numerical scheme for the solution of singularly perturbed parabolic convectiondiffusion problems with a delay in time defined on a rectangular domain is suggested. The presence of the small diffusion parameter leads to a parabolic right boundary layer. A collocation method consisting of cubic B-spline basis functions on an appropriate piecewise-uniform mesh is used to discretize the system of ordinary differential equations obtained by using Rothe's method on an equidistant mesh in the temporal direction. The parameter-uniform convergence of the method is shown by establishing the theoretical error bounds. The numerical results of the test problems validate the theoretical error bounds. KEYWORDS fitted-mesh, parameter-uniform convergence, singular perturbation, B-splines, time delay 1 INTRODUCTION Delay differential equations (DDEs) arise in the mathematical modeling of a large variety of practical phenomena, for instance, hydrodynamics of liquid helium [1], diffusion in polymers [2], thermo-elasticity [3], microscale heat transfer [4], physiological processes, diseases [5, 6], epidemiology, and the population dynamics [7, 8]. Singularly perturbed DDEs (SP-DDEs) are those in which in addition to the delay term the involved diffusion parameter, known as the perturbation parameter, is small. SP-DDEs arise in various practical phenomena, such as biological and chemical reactions, population growth [9], epidemiology [10]. A mathematical model [11] for a class of deterministic SP-PDE includes the following logistic equation (w (x, t)) t = (w (x, t)) xx + w (x, t)(1 − w (x, t −)), which arises in mathematical ecology for the evolution of a population with density w (x, t).