Rock Hard case adjourned
It will be a while longer before Rock Hard Cement’s challenge to an enforcement notice issued by the Town & Country Planning Department is over. Justice Randall Worrell adjourned the matter until...
View ArticleKing gives Gov’t ‘F’ grade
Barbados Labour Party (BLP) candidate for St Philip West John King has accused Government of failing to meet even the basic needs of Barbadians. Addressing a meeting of the party’s constituency branch...
View ArticleOfficial warns of new dengue threat
A regional health care specialist is warning of the onset of a new and more serious strain of the mosquito-borne dengue fever. “We can predict with some degree of certainty that next year, more...
View ArticleScholarship for King
Najla Achele Rosonia King, of Promenade Road, Tudor Bridge, St Michael, has been awarded the scholarship by the George Walton Payne & Co. Scholarship Trust for the two year period 2016/17 and...
View ArticleWanted man caught; three others being sought
A prisoner, who escaped police custody on August 12, has been recaptured. Police say 30-year-old Kadarian McNeal Mayers of #4 Hill Side, Gall Hill, Christ Church, who was the subject of an earlier...
View ArticleKeana starts a new chapter
Almost four years ago, Keana Banfield made headlines when she was in dire need of medical assistance. At the tender age of eight, she came down with a mysterious illness which eventually became life...
View ArticleWorrying display
It is not the type of display you expect to see outside a primary school, but it is exactly what students at Eagle Hall Primary are now greeted with as they make their way to and from classes. Today,...
View ArticleWrong turn
The umbrella organization, which represents owners of privately-run public service vehicles, Tuesday called on Minister of Transport and Works Michael Lashley to urgently intervene to avert possible...
View ArticleStill high!
It was first announced by Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler in his June 2015 Budget as one of the measures to be used by Government to get Barbadians to lower their caloric intake. However, the...
View ArticleSinckler rejects concerns that BRA move not safe
Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler says the process of transitioning the Customs & Excise Department into the Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA) could begin any day now, as he today dismissed the...
View ArticleTime to talk
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is being urged to convene an urgent meeting with LIAT shareholder governments to come up with a concrete plan to put the struggling regional airline back on course....
View ArticleNo need for panic over Brexit
Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler says there’s no need for Barbadians to panic over the United Kingdom’s decision to exit the European Union (EU). “We ought not to run around like headless chickens...
View ArticleFire destroys home at Vauxhall
Fire has destroyed a residential dwelling at Vauxhall Gardens, Christ Church, leaving one man counting the cost. So far no injuries have been reported, but residents say the wooden home, which had a...
View ArticleWestbury students return to the classroom
Teachers and students of Westbury Primary finally returned to a renovated school today, two days after the official start of the 2016 school year. While classes resumed at other schools on Monday, the...
View ArticleAll still not well at St Joseph Primary
If the taps at the St Joseph Primary School are still dry by next Monday, not only will parents be keeping their children away from class, but they will be headed straight to the Ministry of Education...
View ArticlePolice step up prison probe
Lawmen have widened their probe into Her Majesty’s Prison, Dodds, a day after Barbados TODAY reported that a prison officer had found himself at centre of a contraband investigation. According to...
View ArticleCounting on Hyatt
Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding the Hyatt hotel project and the possibility of there being further tourism delay, Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy remains optimistic that Barbados will be...
View ArticleQuick response to Vauxhall fire
A mother of three is breathing a sigh of relief after her home was spared severe damage following an early morning fire at Vauxhall, Christ Church. The blaze, which occurred just after 6 a.m.,...
View ArticleOut of place!
Unfortunate and out of place! That’s how the Acting Assistant General Secretary of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), Wayne Walrond, has responded to statements made Wednesday by Minister of...
View ArticleNot me!
The Chief Town Planner Mark Cummins says the final decision on the proposed Hyatt Centric Resort Hotel is completely out of his hands. “That matter has been referred to the Minister responsible for...
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