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CARICOM Observer team declares Guyana election recount credible
SOURCE: Newsroom Guyana: The CARICOM team which scrutinised the national vote recount has said nothing prevents the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission from declaring the results of the recount...
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COVID-19 Update: One new case today
A 49-year-old Barbadian woman, repatriated from a cruise liner on which she worked, is the island’s latest COVID-19 positive patient. That was the lone positive test among 174 done yesterday. The...
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Murder accused remanded to Dodds
Murder accused 20-year-old Javone Rommel Haynes and 27-year-old Julius Dmario Ifill were today remanded to HMP Dodds. Haynes of Syndicate Road, Bush Hall, and Ifill of Richard’s Land, Bush Hall, St...
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BWU threatens ‘workers’ shutdown’
While Barbados moves closer to fully re-opening the country after a crippling COVID-19 public health shutdown, another threat of a different kind looms. Deputy General Secretary of the Barbados...
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Back to school for some
After being away for eight weeks, thousands of excited Class 4 students returned to a changed school campus where they were greeted by the strict entry protocols thanks to COVID-19. At the gates,...
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New CBC CEO: ‘I know we can do better’
The Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)’s first-ever Chief Executive Officer has promised that the heavily indebted state-broadcaster will “do better” as it moves toward a more efficient...
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Employment Rights Tribunal suspends ruling
The Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) today dramatically suspended judgement on two unfair dismissal cases founded on similar principles but involving different parties. Retired High Court and Appeals...
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Well, fix it!
Residents of a St Michael community fear they could face tragedy if authorities do not hastily repair a damaged well in the area. The well covering is leaning dangerously and despite repeated efforts...
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Catholic priest joins in call for statue to go
Recent calls for the removal of Horatio Nelson’s controversial statue from Bridgetown’s Heroes’ Square has attracted the support of yet another respected religious leader, who on Sunday expressed...
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Trini students head home – to quarantine
The 13 Trinidadian students at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill who were stuck here during the COVID-19 lockdown are finally home. But they were expected to be quarantined immediately on...
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Extend market hours, fish vendors urge
Fish vendors at the Berinda Cox Fish Market have urged authorities to extend its opening hours as part of the gradual reopening of the country after the COVID-19 emergency. As part of the new COVID-19...
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From block to business world ‘in a month’
Within the next month, young people from several blocks around the island should have their own businesses up and running. Several aspiring entrepreneurs were present this morning in Silver Hill,...
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Nightlife biz looks to restriction ease in bid to survive
Government-imposed nighttime curfews and restrictions on public gatherings over the last three months have left nightlife and party cruise proprietors on the brink of collapse. Now, a...
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RBC offers credit payment holiday
RBC Royal Bank customers throughout the Caribbean were today offered a second round of financial relief owing to the impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic with another three-month payment holiday...
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CARICOM monitors okay recount result
GEORGETOWN – A three-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) team that monitored the recount of the ballots cast in the disputed March 2 regional and general elections, said it did not “witness anything...
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Grieving widow says home drums should beat first
Selwyn Blues Knight was a black life that mattered. But while Barbadians recently took to the streets to protest in the wake of American George Floyd’s slaying by a white cop in Minneapolis, no one has...
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No bail for St Thomas man
A 30-year-old man accused of two indictable offences under the Theft Act has been remanded to Her Majesty’s Dodds Prison. Michael Charles Bowen, of Redman’s Village, St Thomas is charged with stealing...
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Teen banned from home
Eighteen-year-old Absalom Abejah Francis-Hunte had to find a new place to live today after he burnt his bridges with the person with whom he was residing. Francis-Hunte, of Gill’s Gap, Eagle Hall, St...
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Accused gets bail
A 55-year-old man who denied threatening another person will reappear in court tomorrow. Douglas Sydney Edwards, of 2nd Avenue Fairfield, Black Rock, St Michael was granted $500 in the District ‘A’...
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#BTEditorial – A difficult time for the Barbadian household
To say that life for workers has been altered dramatically since the onset of COVID-19 would be the understatement of the decade. And three months into this wholly unforgiving period, daily existence...
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