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Tributes to a titan
Tributes continued to pour in today for late cinematographer Peter Roy Byer, with one veteran broadcaster urging that his archives be preserved for future generations. Roy Byer As several groups and...
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Time for payback
A veteran banker says banks in Barbados owe their success to early depositors and should pay back, now that these savers are elderly and in need of reverse mortgages. Senator Tony Marshall made the...
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Two schoolboys stabbed in The City
A 15-year-old schoolboy of Spruce Street, The City, is now nursing a stab wound to his back after being attacked while walking across the Charles Duncan O’Neale Bridge. In an interview with Barbados...
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ALIVE AND WELL
The Barbadians who became lost at sea for three days after encountering difficulties as a result of stormy weather are thanking God they are alive today and are extending gratitude to those who came to...
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NUPW out in the cold
The bitter impasse between the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) and management of the Barbados Community College (BCC) took another ugly turn today, as NUPW General Secretary Dennis Clarke and...
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Blame Dem
With the Barbados economy said to be heading downhill, the chairman of Government’s Economic Policy Advisors Committee Sir Frank Alleyne today suggested that the writing has been on the wall for some...
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$20m boost
Barbados is among regional countries due to benefit from a 20 million-euro disaster management grant from the European Union (EU). And, Minister of Home Affairs Adriel Brathwaite has lauded the...
View ArticleBHL boss hopeful of settlement with BWU
A week after unionised workers at Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) staged a crippling walkout, CEO Richard Cozier was today expressing optimism that a lasting agreement will be reached with the workers’...
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Nation trio to wait until 2015 for trial
Despite pleas for a speedy start to the preliminary inquiry (PI) in the sex photo case involving three senior Nation Publishing Company employees, a magistrate yesterday adjourned the matter until...
View ArticleElderly man stabbed
An elderly man has been hospitalized with several stab wounds after an altercation with a schoolboy yesterday evening. The senior citizen – whose name police are withholding for now – was the other...
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Aspiring app developers prep for global market
Practising and aspiring local app developers will soon get the opportunity to take their creativity and business acumen to another level, thanks to a new initiative by the Barbados Coalition of Service...
View ArticleTraffic changes in the City for Remembrance Day rehearsal
If your plans tomorrow morning involve driving through the City, bear in mind that there will be a number of traffic changes in Bridgetown to facilitate a full rehearsal for the Remembrance Day Parade...
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Remembering Barbadian sacrifice
Outstanding Barbadian Marseta Walcott last evening flipped the switch at Heroes Square to light up Bridgetown, heralding the start of a month of celebrations for Barbados’ 48th anniversary of...
View ArticleEight to vie for Banks Calendar Girl title
In about a month, eight beauties will battle it out for the title of Banks Calendar Girl 2015. On Thursday, 16 hopefuls paraded in front of the judges at Bay Garden, Oistins hoping to get the...
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Minister: Stop paying lip service to farmers and businesses
Stop paying lip service to small farmers and businesses and do more to support them. That was the call of Acting Minister of International Business, Industry, Commerce and Small Business Adriel...
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Encouraging the culinary arts
Trenel Ifill making dessert. With the culinary arts to take centre stage in the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA), the National Cultural Foundation is going all out to bring more...
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Former Combermere teachers honoured
More than 180 old scholars and friends of the Combermere School turned up at the Hilton Barbados Resort last night to witness two former teachers inducted into the Blue Ribbon Class of distinguished...
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Remembrance Day rehearsals
It may have looked like the real thing, but what armed and unarmed units put on this morning in Heroes Square was just a dry run of this year’s Remembrance Day Parade. The rehearsal came exactly one...
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B&B Distribution now Banks Distribution
B&B Distribution Limited, the distribution arm of the island’s largest beverage conglomerate, has been rebranded and has taken on the name of its heritage company, Banks. Managing Director and CEO...
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Abed’s expanding
Another Abed’s store is coming to the island soon and the Barbadian establishment also plans to expand across the Caribbean. The growth plans were revealed over the weekend by Abed’s Managing Director...
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