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New national reference lab coming soon
Barbados is getting a new state-of-the-art National Reference Laboratory. The facility to be constructed at Enmore #2, Martindales Road, St Michael, across the street from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital,...
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Jamaican gets two years imprisonment for drugs
Jamaican visitor, Dwayne Sylvester Phillips, was sentenced to two years imprisonment today, after pleading guilty to four drug-related charges. The 26-year-old painter appeared before Magistrate...
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WE OBJECT
Two businessmen have challenged plans by the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) to take tenants to court to recoup more than $11 million in outstanding rent. One of them, Trevor...
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Former BWU boss blasts BL&P for ‘disrespect’
Veteran trade union leader Sir Roy Trotman has taken the Barbados Light & Power Company (BL&P) to task for showing “disrespect” to Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, Minister of Labour Senator Dr...
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Teacher remanded
A Guyanese tutor who admitted to using a false identification card is still being denied bail after 28 days on remand. Languages tutor Natasha Veronica LaFarque, of #120 5th Avenue Rendezvous Gardens,...
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Dishonest!
Therold Fields can no longer practise law in Barbados. But he will have to find more than half million dollars to repay client Patricia Simpson, after the Court of Appeal today found he was dishonest...
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Significant reduction in port accidents
The Barbados Port Inc. is reporting a 20 per cent reduction in accidents on the job, following its involvement in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Council certification...
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Settle CLICO matter to restore confidence, says expert
Only a resolution of the CLICO fiasco in Barbados can restore Barbadians’ confidence in the insurance industry. That is the view of financial management consultant Osborne Nurse who helped the Trinidad...
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Do better
Members of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) have been told to pull up their socks and return the 40-year-old organization to its past level of vibrancy. Veteran trade unionist and general secretary...
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BLP: More resources needed in crime fight
Former Attorney General Dale Marshall today demanded that Government do all in its power to provide police with increased resources to end the recent spate of criminal activity. In a statement...
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Woman fined for assaulting police
Her grandfather called the police yesterday after she was misbehaving at his residence. But even when they arrived, Kimiko Rashika Callender-Proverbs’ behaviour did not improve. In fact, she began...
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Crime drama
One man is dead and three others believed to be responsible for his murder are in police custody, following a high-speed chase that crossed two parishes today. The series of events began in Vaughn’s...
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Time out
Even though 23-year-old James Jonah Josiah Sandiford admitted to robbing 10 women, snatching their bags and running off, he felt the three years in prison imposed on him by a Bridgetown Magistrate was...
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Not bothered
The Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) boss is not concerned about the rift between her organization and the umbrella Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB). General secretary...
View ArticleChefette case first to be heard by Employment Rights Tribunal
A date has finally been set for the Employment Rights Tribunal to hear its first case, but it will have nothing to do with the National Conservation Commission (NCC) workers. Chairman Hal Gollop, QC,...
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Leading businessmen say vote buying still a concern
Two years after serious accusations were made about vote buying in the last general election, two prominent businessmen, Andy Armstrong and Andrew Bynoe, have expressed surprise that no full...
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Clinic against legalizing pot
Counsellor at the Centre For Counselling Addiction Support Alternatives (CASA), Jerry Bellamy, has come out strongly against the legalization of marijuana in Barbados. Bellamy issued his caution today...
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Teenage robber gets 12 months
Eighteen-year-old Henry Depeiza Lewis will spend the next 12 months at HMP Dodds. He received that sentence from Magistrate Douglas Frederick after confessing to robbing a man of his bag and its...
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Get with it
As it observes 135 years in Barbados, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) has been told to reinvent itself and become relevant to young people today. At the organization’s annual general...
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Welcome!
The Ministry of Finance is developing new guidelines which will apply to persons wanting to invest in Barbados through charitable means. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart made the announcement today as he...
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