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Students armed
Teachers at Parkinson Memorial Secondary are expected to go on the picket line tomorrow morning to protest principal Jeff Broomes’ failure to take disciplinary action against students who took knives...
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Man charged with near $1 million jewellery heist
A 26-year-old man appeared before Chief Magistrate Pamela Beckles at the Oistins Magistrates’ Court today, charged with stealing almost $1 million worth of jewellery from a Christ Church hotel. Rommel...
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INTERVENE
The Barbados Government is being asked to intervene to prevent Nigeria’s Delta State Youth Empowerment Programme from being scrapped. The appeal from David Comissiong comes amid news that the...
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Dig deeper
Follow the money. That advice from Opposition Leader Mia Mottley to authorities, as she suggested they dig deeper into the transfer of finances related to failed insurance company CLICO. Addressing a...
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Marshall issues challenge to Lashley
Put up or shut up! That challenge was issued today by former Attorney General Dale Marshall to Minister of Transport Michael Lashley who yesterday called for a police probe into the construction of the...
View ArticleUPDATE-Body found near Mangrove landfill
Police have cordoned off a section of the road leading into the Mangrove landfill in Vauclause, St Thomas, following the discovery this morning of the body of a man with gunshot wounds. In a brief...
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Government blamed for natural gas shortage
The Freundel Stuart administration’s lack of action is to blame for the recent natural gas shortage at hotels and restaurants, a Barbados Labour Party (BLP) parliamentarian has alleged. Kerrie Symmonds...
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Don’t rule out IMF
A visiting Central Bank governor says getting assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should not be ruled out simply to remain “independent”. Governor of the Central Bank of Denmark Per...
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Principals taken by surprise
The principal of the Parkinson Memorial Secondary School, Jeff Broomes, and his counterpart at the Alma Parris Memorial Secondary School Valdez Francis today expressed surprise over planned protest...
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School threat
After staying away from school for two hours today, teachers at two of this island’s secondary schools are threatening to remain off the job indefinitely unless their safety concerns are addressed by...
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Man jailed for ‘pain medicine’
A Greenfield, St Michael resident will spend the next year at HMP Dodds after he threw in the towel yesterday. Acting Magistrate Alliston Seale has sentenced Noel Leon DaCosta Agard, 32, to two...
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Opposition waits
Even as they anxiously await a report from Parliament’s Committee of Privileges they had anticipated would have been laid today, Opposition MPs stayed away from debate in the House of Assembly for the...
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Parliament removes hurdle to allow transfer of housing units
Parliament today cleared “a significant hurdle” in its move to transfer ownership of National Housing Corporation (NHC) units to tenants who have been paying rent for at least 20 years. The major step...
View ArticleStaff shortage hurting airport control tower
Following last November’s crippling strike by unionized air traffic controllers, Director of Civil Aviation Kingley Nelson says the department is still operating short of staff. However, in responding...
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UWI Cave Hill gets female principal
Professor Eudine Barriteau is tipped to succeed Sir Hilary Beckles on May 1 as the new principal of the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies. Her appointment was approved by the...
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ON HIGH
Barbados is sharing in the biggest Caribbean tourism boom in history. Taking part in a regional state of the industry Press conference here this morning, Minister of TourismRichard Sealy, who is also...
View ArticleBajan wins Super Lotto
Super Lotto has another huge jackpot winner for the year from Barbados. The winner is now BDS$5,450,000 richer after the Super Lotto Draw #560 drawn yesterday. The winner, who has not yet come forward,...
View ArticleMissing: Resident of senior citizens’ village
The police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing 63-year-old man. He is Hughson Brathwaite, a resident of the Soroptomist Senior Citizen Village, Eden Lodge, St. Michael. Hughson...
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Broomes challenges Ministry of Education on retirement
The Ministry of Education cannot set a retirement date for me! With this terse comment, embattled principal of the Parkinson Memorial Secondary School Jeff Broomes dismissed a statement issued by the...
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Magistrate frustrated
Magistrate Douglas Frederick was a frustrated man when an accused already on bail for six offences was back before the court today on three new charges. Jaleel Kadem Callender, a 21-year-old labourer...
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