Narrow escape
A 37-year-old St John man managed to defy death this afternoon after his vehicle plunged down a precipice at Clifton Hall in the same parish. The truck being driven by Dave Cooke, of New Castle,...
View ArticleTourism boom
Despite a double-digit growth in tourist arrivals in January, visitor attractions here did not reap the benefits of the increase. Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association...
View Article‘Barbados could lose out to DR’
Barbados is pricing itself out of the tourism market, a leading industry executive has warned. Chairman of SunTours Barbados Bernard Weatherhead said the country was an expensive destination and was...
View ArticleNew tourism plan needed – Chatrani
Chairman of the Barbados Hotel Tourism Association (BHTA) Sunil Chatrani has issued a stern warning that unless action is taken to revolutionize the tourism industry, the country’s leading money earner...
View ArticleGlenburnie residents suffering from road rage
Residents of Glenburnie, St John say they are fed up with complaining to authorities about noticeable cracks that have been appearing on the road for some time. When Barbados TODAY visited the...
View ArticleDisabled, kids, elderly treated to Broadway
Celebrations to mark the Month Of The Disabled got off to an unofficial rocking start yesterday. It was all fun and lots of laughter as deserving members of the disabled community and the elderly were...
View ArticleMajor drug bust
Law enforcers have made a major drug bust valued at six million dollars. According to Public Relations Officer of the Royal Barbados Police Force David Welch, 122.9 kilogrammes of cocaine was seized...
View ArticlePolice searching for missing boy
Lawmen are searching for Shakeem Ronique Sullivan, 14, of 1st Avenue, Maxwell Hill, Christ Church. The teenager left home around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday March 1. Shakeem is five feet tall, slim and dark...
View ArticleLet’s talk
Disgruntled workers at the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) will not be staging any further industrial action for the time being. That’s the order from the National Council of the National...
View ArticleCombermere situation baffling, says Redman
The President of the Barbados Secondary Teachers Union (BSTU) Mary Redman is not ruling out permanent closure of the Combermere School. However, Redman was adamant that the root cause of ongoing...
View ArticleRepublicanism no cure for corruption
Political scientist Cynthia Barrow-Giles believes political corruption and an imbalance of power are problems in Barbados that cannot be solved by switching to a republican form of Government. The...
View ArticleBWA seeking to plug leaks
In the wake of the recently announced water prohibition order, the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) is moving to plug a number of bothersome leaks, which are said to be costing this island millions of...
View ArticleStudents’ Grace
Junior students of the Lawrence T. Gay Memorial have settled comfortably into their temporary ‘classrooms’ at the nearby Grace Hill Moravian Church. The students of Reception, Infants A and B reported...
View ArticleCave Hill on board with Barbados’ 50th
The Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) will be sharing in this island’s 50th anniversary of independence celebrations. During a media launch this morning at the campus,...
View ArticlePolice probe stabbing
An unidentified man was rushed to hospital this morning following a stabbing incident. Police are currently on the hunt for his attacker. Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police David Welch said the...
View ArticleWrapper dispute student off to private school
The 15-year-old student at the center of the so-called wrapper controversy will return to class on Monday. Sources tell Barbados TODAY the former Springer Memorial student will continue her education...
View ArticleSTARCOM loses GM
General Manager of STARCOM Network Dominic Beaubrun has parted ways with the company. Beaubrun, who initially took on the role between 2010 and 2012 before leaving to return to STARCOM in 2013, spent...
View ArticleStabbing in Enterprise
Investigations continue into a stabbing incident that left Javon Skette, 25, nursing serious injuries. Skeete of Goodland, Christ Church, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with a...
View ArticleNot Here!
The Freundel Stuart administration is not interested in pursuing anti-corruption legislation at present because it is not a priority, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite said. Brathwaite played down the...
View ArticleHolness has Stuart’s blessing
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has congratulated the new Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness and his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) following their recent general election victory. The JLP narrowly...
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