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Apparent murder at Black Rock
Police are on the scene of an apparent murder at Seclusion Road, Black Rock, St Michael. No further information has been released, however, Barbados TODAY was told that the incident occurred inside a...
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Update: Murder victim identified
Police have confirmed that 52-year old Victor Knight is the country’s latest homicide victim. Knight’s body was discovered around 9 this morning with stab wounds in his home at Seclusion Road, Black...
View ArticlePolice probing unnatural death
Police are continuing investigations into an unnatural death that occurred over the weekend in Kingsland Crescent, Christ Church. Lawmen say the body of 27-year-old Stephen Chase was found at about...
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Tragic loss
Relatives fainted and screams echoed through the quiet neighbourhood of Seclusion Road, Black Rock, St Michael as the body of 52-year-old Victor Knight was carried away just after midday. His body was...
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IN THE DARK
The head of the umbrella body for farmers appears to have been caught off guard by the February 1 date for hoteliers to begin accessing Government concessions. And chief executive officer of the...
View ArticleMan charged in Joe’s River shooting
Police have formally charged a 44-year-old man in connection with the January 21 shooting incident, which occurred at Joe’s River, St Joseph. He is Adrian Orlando Morris of the same address. Morris is...
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Hands clean!
Six years after the collapse of CLICO International Life Insurance Company (CIL) in Barbados, the man who led the former financial giant has broken his silence, telling policyholders and investors he...
View ArticleHinkson tells Minister Jones to apologise
Member of Parliament for St James North Edmund Hinkson wants Minister of Education Ronald Jones to publicly admit that Cabinet rejected his bursary proposal and apologize to Barbadian students. The...
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Parris fighting CLICO court action
Former Chairman of CLICO Holdings Barbados Limited Leroy Parris has hit back at the judicial managers of the insurance company over a lawsuit that he said suggested he was not entitled to a $3.3...
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Not enough
The Freundel Stuart administration is being told that legislation alone will not make a dent in the high number of incidents of theft of agricultural produce. Chief executive officer of the Barbados...
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BLP on CLICO: Why no criminal probe?
A senior Barbados Labour Party (BLP) is questioning why no criminal investigation has been led into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of CLICO. Parliamentary representative for St Joseph Dale...
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Crimes against ex lead man to year in prison
Derick Oneal Morris will be spending the next year behind bars. When Morris, of Block 11A Factory Avenue, Wildey, St Michael went before Acting Magistrate Alliston Seale today, he admitted to stealing...
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Hear! Hair!
There is no such thing as good hair and bad hair. And, an individual with a lighter complexion being better than another whose skin is darker is false. So, just be proud of who and what you are, and be...
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Man to be punished for breaking into mother’s home
He was told to leave his mother’s house but returned anyway. And not only did Christopher Jean-Claude Fontenelle go back, but he ripped out some of the louvres and threw a rock, breaking one of the...
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Dog gets St John man in trouble with the law
A 39-year-old man went before the District “C” Magistrates’ Court today for a rare case of permitting his dog to be in a public place without a leash. Richard Stetson Savoury, of College Land, St John,...
View ArticleBursaries coming
The Ministry of Finance has reportedly signed off on $3 million in promised bursaries for students at the University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill Campus. The commitment was given back in July 2014 by...
View ArticleOver $10,000 missing
Authorities are investigating the circumstances under which US$5,500 has gone missing from District “D” Police Station. Barbados TODAY understands that sum was part of approximately $100,000 which was...
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NHC HOLE
If the National Housing Corporation (NHC) continues to focus only on providing housing for poor Barbadians it will never get out of its financial hole, Minister of Housing Denis Kellman declared today....
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Really, Leroy?
The President of the Barbados Investors and Policyholders Alliance (BIPA), June Fowler, today refused to be drawn into robust public discussion which emanated from yesterday’s unsolicited public...
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No excuse
Chief Magistrate Pamela Beckles will not be condoning “people who believe they should resort to a life of crime because they have come upon hard times”. She made that position clear today when a...
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