BHL welcomes lifting of injunction
Banks Holdings Ltd (BHL) has said the board is scheduled to issue its third Director’s circular in response to ANSA McAL’s offer of Bds $6.00 per share for all remaining shares in the company,...
View ArticleIDB to assess Skills for the Future programme
Representatives of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are due here from tomorrow to assess the progress of the Government of Barbados/IDB Skills for the Future programme being executed by the...
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Local culinary arts on display
Members of the public treated to some of the best local culinary products this weekend at the NIFCA Culinary Arts and Expo at the Sir Garfield Sobers Gymnasium. The expo, which began on Friday, was...
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FLOW gets a new owner
John Malone John Malone’s Liberty Global Plc has agreed to buy Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), the company which trades here as FLOW, in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at 3.5 billion...
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Not just us
Barbados is not the only country in the Caribbean dealing with an upsurge in criminal behaviour, including murder, drug trafficking and human trafficking. This was the word of caution yesterday from...
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Out of luck
Saying he was fed up with the type of treatment foreigners get in Barbados, a naturalized Barbadian, who has been living here for the past 19 years, today made an impassioned plea for justice. St...
View ArticleOh no, Maria!
Political activist David Comissiong is not siding with embattled Christ Church West MP Dr Maria Agard in her ongoing impasse with members of the Opposition Labour Party. In fact, Comissiong has stopped...
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Straughn focused on unemployment figures
Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) candidate for Christ Church East Central, economist Ryan Straughn has identified unemployment among well-qualified young persons in the constituency as a major...
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Smith’s funeral set for Nov. 27
The St Philip woman who had been missing since October 13 and was later found dead in a ravine at Halton Plantation in the same parish will be laid to rest on Friday, November 27 at the St Patrick’s...
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A cop’s plea
The lawyer for a policeman who pleaded guilty to three counts of committing serious indecency against two schoolgirls back in 2011, has asked the court to release his client pending sentencing, based...
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Jamaican pleads guilty to drug charges, fined $15 000
A Jamaican man who denied three drug charges a month ago before Magistrate Douglas Frederick, confessed to them when he returned to court today. Neil Alexander Churchill Bennett, of Westgate Hill,...
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Brathwaite jailed for burglary
A nine-month suspended sentence imposed on Everton Rommell Brathwaite on May 29 came back to haunt him today. In trouble with the law again five months later, Brathwaite pleaded guilty to two offences...
View ArticleMan facing three murder charges
Police have held a St George man for the murder of three men. Michael Kenan Blackette, 21, of Block 2, Flat Rock, St. George, is expected to appear at the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court today charged...
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Murder times three
by Sandra Downes In the midst of cries throughout the country about violence and our youth, yet another young man appeared in a Bridgetown Court today charged with five serious offences, including...
View ArticleTwo men held in police raid
Police have arrested two men in connection with the discovery of a glock firearm and a quantity of illegal drugs. The arrests were made following a raid in Nelson Street, St. Michael yesterday....
View ArticleBattle ready
It may be illegal to wear camouflage in Barbados, but today Jalano Jemmott got a once in a lifetime opportunity during a career showcase at Solidarity House. The Alma Parris student could not contain...
View ArticlePSV blow
Insurance companies are being asked not to adopt a ‘Peter pay for Paul’ policy when it comes to insuring public service vehicles (PSVs). That cry has come from chairman of the Alliance for Owners of...
View ArticleOn target
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says job number one remains jobs for his ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP). And with the economy currently tottering at 0.5 per cent growth, the Prime Minister and...
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Emera sticking to power promise
Canadian energy firm, Emera Inc., today broke ground at Trents, St Lucy for the construction of a $40 million solar photovoltaic energy plant, again promising Barbadian consumers savings of $10 million...
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Tourism ‘more than hotels and airline seats’
Tourism should no longer be seen only in terms of bodies in airline seats and heads in hotel beds. Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, Dr Keith Nurse, made...
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