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Murrell admits to three counts of stealing money
While purporting to be an employee of Hanschell Inniss Distributors, Mark Rudolph Murrell swindled several persons out of cash between March and April this year. Murrell, of 2nd Avenue Rendezvous High...
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Children gather for Common Entrance
These students took time to pray before taking the examination. With over 3500 students set to take this morning’s Common Entrance Examination, there was a definite buzz around the island’s secondary...
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Weir urges Barbadians to learn more about Lupus
On average, 25 persons are diagnosed with lupus in Barbados each year. And the president of the Hope Foundation, Shelly Weir, is appealing to Barbadians to learn more about the autoimmune disease. Hope...
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Smooth morning at Queen’s
This morning got off to a smooth start at Queen’s College where 167 students wrote the 2015 Barbados Secondary School Entrance Examination. Just after 8 a.m., the students of West Terrace Primary and...
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Calm from St Martin’s Mangrove
Over at the Princess Margaret Secondary School there was calm as the students of St Martin’s Mangrove Primary turned up to sit the Barbados Secondary School Entrance Examination, better known as the...
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Court orders man back home with his mom
The High Court has placed a St Michael man on two years probation. The sentence, handed down yesterday, came after LeAndrew Shabar Coward had pleaded guilty, on an earlier occasion, to having a gun and...
View ArticleWrong turn
Trouble appears to be brewing at the Customs and Excise Department. Reliable sources have told Barbados TODAY the industrial relations climate could take a turn for the worse, if the customs officers...
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Blame it on the Bees, says Lowe
The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has been blamed for the many issues currently facing the Psychiatric Hospital. Speaking in Parliament this afternoon, MP for Christ Church East Denis Lowe chastised the...
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Schools remain open, despite crippling bus strike
Minister of Education Ronald Jones says Government schools remain open, despite this morning’s crippling strike by bus drivers that has grounded the operations of the state-run Transport Board. The...
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‘Good’ exam; a few maths challenges
It was a case of same script, different cast at various centres in the north at the end of the Barbados Secondary School Entrance Examination today. The hundreds of students exiting the different...
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BLP stands with striking drivers
The Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) is standing in solidarity with striking drivers at the state-run Transport Board. Opposition Leader Mia Mottley, Shadow Minister of Transport Trevor Prescod...
View ArticleSeveral injured in Maxwell accident
Over a dozen people have reportedly been injured in a road accident at Maxwell, Christ Church, involving two public service vehicles. Details are still sketchy, but police spokesman David Welch said...
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Transport Board officials caught by surprise
This morning’s crippling strike by Transport Board drivers took officials completely off guard. General Manager Sandra Forde, who arrived at the Board’s Weymouth headquarters just after 9:15 this...
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UPDATE-Over a dozen injured in Maxwell collision
Over a dozen people, including a toddler, have been injured following an accident, which occurred along Maxwell Main Road in Christ Church around 7:30 a.m. involving a ZR and a minibus. The...
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Bus strike over
A crippling six-hour strike by drivers employed by the state-run Transport Board has ended to the relief of hundreds of stranded commuters. The announcement was made just after 11 a.m. by the General...
View ArticleSt George man missing
The police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing man. Missing is Pierre Dexter Atwell. 28 years of 2nd Avenue, Newbury, St. George. He was last seen sometime between 11.30 am and...
View ArticleUPDATE – Missing man found
The public is advised that Pierre Dexter Atwell, 28, of second Avenue, Newbury, St. George, who had been reported missing earlier today has been traced and is safe.
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SORRY COMRADE!
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has apologized to his Vincentian counterpart Dr Ralph Gonsalves “for any discomfiture” he may have suffered when a security guard attempted to screen him at the Grantley...
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Job of Nation journalist now in peril
The burglary case against Nation journalist Timothy McDonald Slinger has been adjourned until June 17. Slinger reappeared before acting Magistrate Alliston Seale in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court...
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Six long hours . . . and no bus
Today’s crippling six-hour strike by drivers employed by the state-run Transport Board took many by surprise. Among the hundreds of commuters left stranded were scores of school children, included...
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