The upmarket Heron Bay in Porters, St James is defending its decision to place a barricade across the road leading to the property. A local media report quoted some visitors as claiming the barrier was denying them access to the beach, with one person questioning when the road had stopped being public. However, Property Manager […]
The upmarket Heron Bay in Porters, St James is defending its decision to place a barricade across the road leading to the property. A local media report quoted some visitors as claiming the barrier was denying them access to the beach, with one person questioning when the road had stopped being public. However, Property Manager […]
The organization that champions the well-being of Barbadians aged 50 or above may finally have found a replacement for its Golden Health Insurance Plan cancelled last year by the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL). The Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP) has identified likely options and the over 2,000 seniors affected by last year’s […]
Road users fed up with the many potholes on the country’s roads could begin to see an improvement from as early as next week. Minister of Transport & Works Michael Lashley has told Barbados TODAY private contractors hired to repair the potholes are expected to resume work on Monday following a break for Christmas. “We […]
Pressure is mounting on Government to repair the increasing number of potholes riddling the island’s roads, and blamed for some vehicular accidents. The Barbados Road Safety Association (BRSA) will tomorrow launch an initiative designed to virtually shame the Freundel Stuart administration into action. BRSA President Sharmane Roland-Bowen told Barbados TODAY the association would begin identifying […]
Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing Dominican Republic national. Lawmen say 28-year-old Luis Felipe Del Rosario Perez was last seen by the captain of the cruise ship Zenith around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, December 27 when he departed the ship whilst it was berthed at the Bridgetown Port. Anyone with information on […]
A 53-year-old Christ Church man has been jailed after owning up to a total of 35 criminal offences. This follows a major police breakthrough into a series of crimes, which were committed in the Southern Division between January to December last year. Tyrone Antonio King of Forbes Land, Silver Hill was subsequently charged with 17 counts of theft; eight counts […]
A 46-year-old route taxi driver of 2nd Ave, Newbury St George, who was reported missing last Thursday, is back home safe and sound. In a brief statement today police thanked the public and the media for their assistance in the investigation into William Darlington’s disappearance on December 29, 2016. No details were given.
A 55-year-old Black Rock, St Michael resident Tuesday admitted to unlawfully assaulting his own cousin and occasioning him actual bodily harm. The charge against Harold McDonald Payne of Free Hill stemmed from a rock-throwing incident on December 27. The court heard that Payne and his cousin Anthony Straker, who live in close proximity to each other, […]
The Ministry of Health is warning of the “dangerous myth” surrounding alternative medicine in the wake of a rise in the number of Barbadians with chronic non-communicable diseases who are looking for all-natural alternatives to prescription drugs. In a report late last month, Barbados TODAY quoted officials at Amaze, Fresh Vitamins and Jenn’s Health and […]
The Central Bank of Barbados is issuing yet another warning of the need for further “painful” fiscal measures to stave off currency devaluation. In his January economic letter released on the bank’s website Wednesday, Governor Dr Delisle Worrell said Barbados had repeatedly failed to achieve the balance between its foreign exchange outflows and inflows, necessary […]
A 46-year-old route taxi driver of 2nd Ave, Newbury St George, who was reported missing last Thursday, is back home safe and sound. In a brief statement Wednesday police thanked the public and the media for their assistance in the investigation into William Darlington’s disappearance on December 29, 2016. No details were given. However, when Barbados […]
The country’s leading road safety advocate is describing as “ignorance” a comment by Minister of Housing Denis Kellman on the condition of the island’s roads. President of the Barbados Road Safety Association (BRSA) Sharmane Roland-Bowen today said she would not “waste my time” engaging Kellman on the comment posted on his Facebook page on New […]
The owner of party cruise boat the M.C. Buccaneer Randall Armstrong is not taking responsibility for the raunchy behaviour which reportedly took place on board his vessel during a recent private party. A ten-second video circulating on social media shows two young women dancing on the boat, one of them naked. Barbados TODAY has since learnt […]
Construction of the much delayed Wyndham Grand Resort on the site of the historic Sam Lord’s Castle in St Philip is set to begin by the end of the first quarter of 2017, according to a top tourism investment official. Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Tourism Investment Inc (BTI) Stuart Layne today revealed that […]
A District ‘A’ magistrate appeared to be caught by surprise Wednesday by the re-appearance in court of an accused man who had only recently been granted bail by him. “You begged to get out and I was surprised to see you walking through the door,” was how Magistrate Douglas Frederick greeted 47-year-old Junior Winston Clarke of […]
The perception of public sector corruption was at its highest two years before the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) was voted out of office, and was at its lowest under the rule of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), according to the New York, USA-headquartered Trading Economics, an online platform that provides historical data, forecasts and trading […]
Police are continuing investigations into the shooting death of a 28-year-old St Philip resident. The lifeless body of Jermaine Ricardo Clarke of Bequest was discovered lying face down in a grassy area next to a track at Mill Road, Eastbourne, in the same parish, late last month. At the time, Clarke was said to be wearing nothing on […]
2016 will go down as a less than rosy one for local farmers. In fact, Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) James Paul today reported that vegetable and meat production had fallen at the end of last year. Paul also told Barbados TODAY milk production was disappointingly low as it fell below […]
Labour officials are currently carrying out investigations into the death of an American visitor who died in a scaffolding accident at Indian Pond, St Joseph on New Year’s Eve. Twenty-six-year-old Alex Miano was apparently working on a stage and lighting for Old Year’s Night celebration activities when he fell to his death from the 20-foot […]
The days of harvesting Barbadian wild honey may be numbered as prospectors are reporting increasing danger from marijuana cultivators. Bee farmers say more and more they are stumbling upon ganja plots resulting in threats to their lives. One farmer told Barbados TODAY as recently as October last year, he was chased by a group of […]
