Police hunt for gunman
Police in Trinidad are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a 13-year-old schoolboy while he was walking to school. According to media reports the first form student of the Tranquility Government...
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CBB truce with union short-lived
Employees at the Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) were back on the job today. But it was for just a few brief moments as General Secretary of the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) Toni Moore pulled her...
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Get back to God
The Dean of St Michael’s Cathedral The Very Reverend Dr Frank Marshall believes that the general movement of people away from God might very well be responsible for the “obvious decline” which is...
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$21 theft charge
A 19-year-old man was a hair’s breadth from getting bail yesterday, until the court realized that he was already out on bail. He was subsequently remanded until October 13. Shaquille Duante Va-Dahl...
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Bail denied for Cenac
A 29-year-old unemployed man of no fixed place of abode was remanded to HMP Dodds yesterday when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on a robbery charge. Raymond Damien Cenac, who went...
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Walcott quits Christ Church South
Having lost two straight elections in Christ Church South, the Barbados Labour Party (BLP General Secretary Dr Jerome Walcott is walking out on the constituency. But in parting he has advised...
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Miller gets four months
After confessing to stealing several items from the Fairchild Street branch of Jordan’s Supermarket, a repeat offender was sentenced to four months behind bars today. Troy Miller, 40, lives at B202...
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Mason facing indecent assault charge
A 46-year-old mason facing a charge of indecently assaulting a seven-year-old girl was remanded to HMP Dodds when he made his first court appearance yesterday. Joseph Augustin Cummings of Mount...
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St Michael family wants answers
A grieving grandfather questions the government’s failure to enforce the death penalty following the tragic death of his loved one last night. 18-year-old Shakeem Turton of Long Gap, Grazettes, St...
View ArticleEight charged with recent robberies
Seven men and a woman have been charged in connection with a spate of recent robberies around the island. Those burglaries occurred at A&C Security Services Limited in Barbarees Hill, St Michael;...
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Seven men and a woman have been charged in connection with a spate of recent robberies around the island. Those burglaries occurred at A&C Security Services Limited in Barbarees Hill, St Michael;...
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Two get Darcy Cumberbatch bursaries
The Lions Club of St Michael Tuesday presented two-year bursaries to two secondary school students in honour of a departed member who had devoted his time to providing free bus rides for school...
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BWU threatens ‘wider protest’ over CBB intern
The Barbados Workers Union has threatened to intensify industrial action at the Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) if the matter concerning the promotion of an intern is not settled soon. While not...
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Nine charged for string of robberies
Eight men and a woman have been charged in connection with a spate of recent robberies around the island. Those burglaries occurred at A&C Security Services Limited in Barbarees Hill, St Michael;...
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Inniss criticizes Obama over rum tax
A “cover-over” tax on Caribbean rum exports entering the United States is continuing to present “a significant challenge” to this important regional industry, according to Minister of Industry,...
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Accused fail to show despite extended day
A long wait yielded nothing after a Bridgetown court yesterday remained open past its usual closing time. Rumours circulating around the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Courts for the entire day were that...
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Teenager awaits fate
It will be a couple of months before a student who threw a rock through a minibus earlier this year knows his fate. That is because Kadeem Tioran Wilkinson, 16, from Todds Land, St George has to await...
View ArticleOver 1, 000 cannabis plants seized
Law enforcers seized a large quantity of cannabis plants in two rural parishes on Wednesday, but no arrests were made. A joint operation involving members of the Drug Squad and the Tactical Response...
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Back to work
24 hours after the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) had threatened to step up industrial action at the Central Bank of Barbados, the dispute has been settled. Mere hours after taking up their places...
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BA hero pilot rewarded with trip to Barbados
Source: The Mirror UK The hero pilot in the British Airways blaze drama has retired and been rewarded with a trip to Barbados. Chris Henkey, 63, oversaw a “perfect” evacuation of 157 passengers and 13...
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