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Jamaica votes ‘yes’ for CCJ
Earlier this afternoon, the Lower House of the Jamaican Parliament secured the favorable majority vote required to have that country access the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) Appellate...
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Jamaican musician off to Dodds
A Jamaican musician will be calling HMP Dodds home for the next four years, after he admitted bringing 25 and a half pounds of marijuana into Barbados on Monday. When Deane Dwight Wright, 34, of...
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‘Lord Evil’ granted bail
Andre “Ponchies” Jackman has been offered $200 000 bail after spending a year on remand at HMP Dodds. The accused, also known as ‘Lord Evil’, of Stroudes Bay, Crab HiIl, St Lucy, is awaiting trial with...
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FATAL SWIM
The mother of a St George man, whose body was found off Browne’s Beach, Lower Bay Street this morning, had an uncanny feeling it was her son before his identity was established. Standing in her...
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Case dismissed
Police files have to be brought before the magistrates’ courts more speedily. Magistrate Douglas Frederick issued the stern warning, as he dismissed a case, which had been in the court system for three...
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Private sector head to meet with protesting haulers
Concerned about implications of prolonged protest action on local businesses, the Chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association Alex McDonald is preparing to meet tomorrow with protesting garbage...
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NCC again!
On day two of their protest, close to two dozen garbage haulers and movers, who are angry over the Government’s implementation of a $25 tipping fee, attempted to stage a “peaceful” drive past...
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Rhythmic launch of Mega Cavalcade
Today the National Cultural Foundation, in connection with HOTT 95.3 and LIME, launched the Mega Cavalcade at River Road in The City. The Mega Cavalcade comes off May 29 from 7 p.m. in Queen’s Park....
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High-rise fears
In the wake of this week’s stabbing incident, which occurred in Government’s high-rise apartment building at Valery in Brittons Hill, St Michael, tenants in a similar housing development are raising...
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Victim robbed of phone and dragged into bushes
Magistrate Douglas Frederick seemed at a loss today as to what would cause a 21-year-old man to rob a young woman at knife-point, while dragging her into a bushy area. He therefore remanded Jamel...
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Police nab suspect in Valery stabbing
A male suspect is now in police custody assisting with investigations into this week’s stabbing incident at the Valery, high rise complex at Britton’s Hill, St Michael. Forty-eight-year-old Cherral...
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Tipping fee that hurts
Private waste haulers and movers say the May 4 implementation by Government of a $25 tipping fee is really hitting them where it hurts the most –– deep in their pockets. Dave Hinds, of Hinds Transport,...
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Hair braider gets tangled up in fraud
A 26-year-old St Michael hair braider confessed to 10 fraud charges when she appeared before Magistrate Alliston Seale in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Salyra Eugene James, of Skeetes...
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Lowe will not be held hostage
Minister of Environment Dr Denis Lowe today warned that the waste haulers would not be allowed to hold the country to ransom, while indicating that Government intended to stick to the 90-day trial...
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Off to QEH
Damian Shimar Griffith returned to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today in the HMP Dodds prison bus, but left the courtroom accompanied by two emergency medical technicians from the Queen...
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STEP UP!
“For far too long you have settled for an ordinary Barbados, an average Barbados. Today, together we can break that mode and aspire to an extraordinary Barbados!” With these words, Republic Bank...
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Not budging
The state-run Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) could be the first major casualty of this week’s work stoppage by private waste haulers and movers. Effective today, the private company responsible for...
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Tipped into the Oilfield
A concerned reader this afternoon sent Barbados TODAY these disturbing pictures of garbage disposed of in the east of the island. Our shocked reader was confronted by the scene as he drove from Lower...
View ArticleStudent found hanging at his home
Lawmen are on the scene of an apparent suicide at Checker Hall, St Lucy. Dead is 12-year-old Shamar Weeks, a student of the Coleridge and Parry School in Ashton Hall, St Peter. He was reportedly found...
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Judgment reserved for Guyanese convict
The Court of Appeal has reserved its decision in a matter in which a Guyanese man, convicted of manslaughter, is appealing his 25-year sentence. The case involving Teerath Persaud came before Chief...
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