No saviour
Political scientist Dr George Belle has ridiculed the thought of former Prime Minister Owen Arthur joining Government’s economics team, falling just short of saying such a move would be a total waste...
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Strangled but not raped
Marcelle Smith was strangled to death. Marcelle Smith That was the finding of the autopsy conducted yesterday afternoon on the decomposed body of the Farm Road, St Philip woman, whose remains were...
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Shooting victim accused of kidnapping
Anthony Junior ‘Platinum’ Hewitt should have been in attendance at the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court No. 2 yesterday. However, he was unable to do so as he was shot several times over the weekend and...
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$750 or two months in jail for drugs
Given a steel bender’s admission to a Bridgetown court this morning, it seems as though Dwayne Ricardo Elliott uses marijuana, but does so at a moderate rate. Elliott, from Signal Station Road,...
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Bentham recounts near death experience
For Anthony Bentham who cheated death yesterday morning when the vehicle he was driving tumbled 40 feet down into a ravine it was the hand of God – and his own hands – that saved him. Lying in a...
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Legal spill
Slapped with an injunction, which has temporarily put the brakes to their planned sale of Banks Holdings Limited (BHL), directors today appeared to be pondering their next move, even as the Trinidadian...
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Senate debate suspended
The Upper Chamber of Parliament tonight suspended its sitting sina die, immediately after passing two land acquisition resolutions without debate. One was to change the use of a parcel of land at...
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Murder rap # 2
Just as he did last Friday when he initially appeared in court in connection with the disappearance of St Philip resident Marcelle Smith, Cheriss Ricardo Omar Ince made his second court appearance...
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McClean defends alternative energy policy
Leader of Government Business in the Upper House Senator Maxine McClean has pointed out that a promise to search for alternative sources of energy featured prominently in the Democratic Labour Party’s...
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Tell us, PM!
Opposition Senator Wilfred Abrahams has questioned the sincerity of Prime Minister Freundel Stuart’s promise made at a St James South constituency branch meeting in mid-September that nothing would be...
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Jahan King report pending
Nearly five months after six-year-old Jahan King died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in mysterious circumstances, police investigators are hoping to bring closure to his case by month-end. Jahan...
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Government Senator Jepter Ince today denied that 27.1 acres of land, which Government is compulsorily acquiring at Vaucluse, St Thomas, would be used to accommodate the controversial Cahill...
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Two Jamaicans to pay big for drugs
Two Jamaican nationals were handed hefty fines when they appeared before Chief Magistrate Pamela Beckles earlier today on four drug charges each. Monique Magola Robinson, a 33-year-old farmer of...
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King owns up to aggravated burglary
Last month, Dwayne Antonio King, of Bayfield, St Philip became a first-time offender after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated robbery and burglary. Yesterday, he added five more convictions for...
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Mottley: Govt doesn’t care about UCAL
Opposition leader Mia Mottley has accused the Freundel Stuart administration of paying “political lip service” to the United Commercial Auto Workers Limited whose staff have not been paid in at least...
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Buried together
A gravedigger at Bushy Park Cemetery was today finishing the last of three graves where crash victims Shakira and Shameka Shepherd and Waveney Johnson will be laid to rest next Tuesday. From left,...
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Too much drinking and driving, laments senior cop
A senior officer of the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) says drunk driving and speeding are possible factors behind some accidents on the island’s roads. Assistant Superintendent Ronald Stanford’s...
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BFPA against raising the legal age of consent
A recent suggestion by an opposition politician in St Vincent and the Grenadines that the age of consent should be raised from 16 to 18 to curb the incidence of violence against girls and young women...
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Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC), the London-headquartered telecommunications company which is a longstanding service provider in the Caribbean, today reported US$90 million in revenues and a...
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Don’t cry for Banks, Barbados
As the bidding war for Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) intensifies, Barbadians have been advised to stop being emotional about the company falling into foreign hands. Managing director of Prestige...
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