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Emergency meeting tomorrow
Top brass of the NUPW Public workers and employees of statutory boards have been summoned to an emergency general meeting tomorrow at the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) Dalkeith Road...
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Blame the weed!
A Bridgetown court heard today that school supplies which a St Peter man stole from a City business, were not for a student but for sale in order to get money to buy “blackies” to satisfy a drug habit....
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There’s uncertainty surrounding the date for the start of the controversial Cahill Energy Project, and it could be at least three years before it materializes. That’s according to Kerry McKenna,...
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Illegal dumping plagues Bucks
An unsightly scene of refuse and waste littering Bucks, St Thomas, has angered Member of Parliament Cynthia Forde. And today, the Barbados Labour Party MP invited a team from Barbados TODAY on a tour...
View ArticleEarthquake off Barbados
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has been recorded off Barbados. The tremor occurred at 7:01 a.m about 128 km northeast of Bathsheba, St Joseph, according to the European‑Mediterranean Seismological Centre...
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Moseley gets CRD
Roscoe Moseley does not intend to allow a vehicle he owned to cause him to go before the law courts again. When the Carrington’s Village, St Michael man appeared before acting Magistrate Elwood Watts...
View ArticleSecond earthquake in four hours
For the second time this morning, an earthquake rattled Barbados. According to the United States Geological Survey, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck at 11.16am. This morning a 5.3 magnitude...
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Sanitation workers back on strike
Sanitation workers walked off the job today, one day after ending a week-long strike in support of employees of the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) and the Customs and Excise...
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NUPW willing to talk to BIDC
The National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) President Akanni McDowall said he was willing to meet with the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) as soon as possible to discuss the...
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Move on!
Station Sergeant Irvin Kellman urged the court today to admonish an accused man, so that he understood that where “circumstances have caused a relationship to end, he must move on”. Kellman was...
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Rescued
The island’s child protection agency, the Child Care Board (CCB), has removed an alarming number of juveniles from abusive homes in the past week. CCB Chairman Kenneth Knight told Barbados TODAY, the...
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NOT HERE!
Evangelical churches here have made it clear that they would staunchly oppose any attempt to legalize same-sex marriage in Barbados. In fact, outspoken pastor Rev David Durant has said that, in the...
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Garbage continues to pile up
The garbage situation in Barbados has reached a deplorable state. Even though Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) workers have returned to work following a week-long strike, large pile-ups of garbage...
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No resolution
The board of management of the state-owned Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) today insisted that there had been no resolution to its long-standing dispute with the island’s main...
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DEM calls for better disaster preparedness
In the wake of the series of earthquakes that shook the island today, a senior disaster management official has called for a higher level of awareness and better preparedness. During a hastily called...
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Government urged to pay attention
Contending that the dispute between the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) and the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) was more about serious underlying issues involving the...
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Farmer owns up to cannabis
Gairy Decourcey Zephirin wasted no time admitting to the police and the court that the cannabis police caught him with on Monday, was his. Zephirin, 38, of King William Street, Nelson Street, the City,...
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Ninja man banned from city building
Well-known Bridgetown street character, Anthony Fitzpatrick “Ninja Man” Lynch, was today banned from going on the premises of the Treasury Building on Bridge Street. Lynch was told not to do so when he...
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Mid-afternoon fire leaves 13 homeless
At least 13 people, including a two-year-old, were left homeless today, when a mid-afternoon fire destroyed a wooden house at Jordan Land, Deacons, St Michael and extensively damaged two adjoining...
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Customs officers strike over move to BRA
Customs officers walked off the job this morning, protesting against what they said was Government’s attempts to “railroad” them into transitioning to the Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA), and its...
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