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Accused Lester Vaughan student gets bail
The 15-year-old female Lester Vaughan School student who was remanded to the Government Industrial School last Thursday in connection with the May 17 beating of another student, was today granted bail...
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It’s a betrayal!
Physician Dr Raymond Massay has criticized the increase in the number of offshore medical schools in Barbados, suggesting it was a betrayal of the medical profession here by the Democratic Labour Party...
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No giving up!
He was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. Now entertainer Antoine Williams is seeking to build greater public awareness about the disease. “When people hear Stage 4 cancer they think you’re...
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Police hunt ‘evasive’ bikers
A video of a gang of motorcyclists evading police in Bridgetown has gone viral on social media. The approximately 80-second video shows over 20 bikers recklessly riding on motorcross bikes, commonly...
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Boyce: Bajans must pay more attention to NCDS
By the year 2030, it is estimated that 86 per cent of all deaths in Barbados will be caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Minister of Health John Boyce, addressing the Fourth Annual Medical...
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Dirty talk
A middle-aged man is expected to know his fate in 28 days, after admitting to harassing a 15-year-old girl on Browne’s Beach Sunday. Richard Dacosta Jordan of #1 Cane Vale, Christ Church entered the...
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‘Blatant lie’
Barbadian actress and director Alison Sealy-Smith has slammed as “a blatant lie” reports in a little-known online publication that she had publicly revealed in “a bombshell world exclusive” that she...
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Businesses violating the spirit of the law – Byer-Suckoo
Minister of Labour Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo is accusing some employers here of violating the spirit of the Employment Rights Act by severing workers without first consulting the Labour Department. The...
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Job threat
Thousands of public servants could be dismissed from the service if Government is forced to abandon the tax measures announced in the recent Budget. The National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) is...
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12 months behind bars for burglar
Magistrate Elwood Watts Monday sentenced a 37-year-old man to 12 months behind bars at HMP Dodds for burglaries he committed earlier this year. When Terry Corey Alexander Waldron of Lot 75 Parish Land,...
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It’s fiscal desperation, BREA says of Budget
The non-governmental organization that promotes the use of renewable energy here is describing the steep rise in the National Social Responsibility Levy (NSRL) as “a significant exercise of fiscal...
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Hinkson not pleased with Govt’s handling of teacher appointments
The Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has congratulated 141 primary school teachers on their recent appointment to the Government service. However, Shadow Minister of Education and Human Resources...
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No gimmick!
Developer Mark Maloney has taken exception to suggestions that an attempt to engage the public on the controversial multi-million dollar Hyatt Centric Hotel project at Bay Street, The City was nothing...
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Small denies stealing money from tourist
A 42-year-old man will spend the night at HMP Dodds and return to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court Tuesday in connection with a theft charge. David Sylvester Small of Thompson Land, Fitts Village,...
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Ozone adds new layer to mobile services here
A year after it was due to begin operating here, Canadian telecommunications firm Ozone is set to “disrupt” the local mobile phone sector from next month. The company, which had been issued with a...
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Babb walks free on ammo charges
Jasper Evan Babb is now a free man. After being on remand on ammunition charges for more than two years, the Josey Hill, St Lucy resident was Monday sentenced to time served. He had pleaded guilty to...
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Christ Church man missing
Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating 40-year-old Lavano Broomes of #8 Homestead Drive, Frere Pilgrim, Christ Church. He was last seen by his mother around 4:30 p.m. last Tuesday when...
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Fourth man charged with Ajay Smith’s murder
Police have arrested and charged a fourth man in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Ajay Ricardo Smith. He is 28-year-old Lerent Ramon Forde of Bournes Land, Silver Sands, Christ Church. Smith,...
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Apologize Chris!
Opposition Leader Mia Mottley is demanding an apology from Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler over his latest remarks on the country’s dire economic situation. With the National Union of Public Workers...
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McDowall not buying Sinckler’s argument
President of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) Akanni McDowall is not buying the Minister of Finance’s suggestion that if recently announced taxes were to be rolled back, public sector...
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