Lawmen progress in cases
A 15-year-old male charged with serious bodily harm and unlawful use of a firearm in connection with the shooting of Canadian visitor Jonathan Hubble in St John on March 12 has been remanded to Dodds...
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Jones pushes reproduction
The island’s largest public sector bargaining agent is throwing its support behind calls from Minister of Education Ronald Jones for a larger population so that local businesses could have access to a...
View Article15 QEH workers get layoff medicine
Government’s retrenchment programme claimed more casualties today, as the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) became the latest victim.While the QEH was instructed to terminate 60 employees as part of the...
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Missed opportunity
Political scientist George Belle says last week’s Estimates Debate will go down as a missed opportunity by the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to halt the business of Government and effectively...
View ArticleCharges in Harrison’s Point drug bust
Police have charged three men, while a fourth suspect remains in hospital, following Saturday’s drug haul off Harrison’s Point, St Lucy.Damien Omar Haynes, 35, of Risk Road, St James; Fabian Antonio...
View ArticleMum and son held in drug smuggling case
A Barbadian mother and son are facing four drug charges after trying to bring cannabis into the island.Marita Eugene Odle, 42, and her 24-year-old son Rico Antonio Odle, both of 1st Avenue Weekes Land,...
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Jamaican drug swallowers fined
Two Jamaicans who swallowed more than 40 pellets of cannabis in an attempt to get the drugs into Barbados will have to pay the court here if they want to avoid going to prison.Esroy Pasington LevyWhen...
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Senator Marshall talks ‘freeness syndrome’
Independent Senator Tony Marshall has taken a critical look at what he terms the “freeness syndrome” which has swept the country since the early 1960s.Independent Senator Tony Marshall (FP)Marshall...
View ArticleFree financial advice for Barbadians
As Barbadians struggle to stretch their dollar while the spiralling cost of living bites into their pockets, a multi-millionaire is coming to Barbados to show residents how to receive financial...
View ArticleCall for lower air taxes
Regional governments are being called upon to follow in the footsteps of their British counterparts and lower taxes on regional air travel.President of the Barbados Hotel & Tourism Association...
View ArticleTask force on foreign exchange
Barbados, currently starved of precious foreign exchange, is being urged to establish a task force to provide special and exclusive oversight of this core economic area of the country’s survival.The...
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Sales success
No amount of sun could discourage the host of people in attendance today at the finals of the 12th annual Pine Hill Dairy–sponsored NAPSAC at the National Stadium.They came out in their numbers to...
View ArticleUp in the air
With the April 1 deadline fast approaching for sign-on to a new super agency, the fate of more than 400 workers at Government revenue collection agencies remains up in the air.Today, the National Union...
View ArticleUCAL workers to strike?
The 140 workers employed at United Commercial Autoworks Ltd (UCAL) are scheduled to go on the picket line tomorrow in protest of the non-payment of salaries following reports today that several of them...
View ArticleAnother man held for Canadian’s shooting
Police have arrested a sixth man in connection with burglaries in St John, including one in which a Canadian visitor was shot.He is 35-year-old Fabian Randolph Ricardo Cooke of Colleton, St. John.Cooke...
View ArticleAnother cannabis plant haul
Lawmen have found almost 600 cannabis plants, some as tall as 11 feet, in a St Michael gully.But no on has been arrested in connection with the fund.Police say members of the Marine Unit conducted a...
View ArticleFemale tourists attacked
Police are on the hunt for a man who attacked two female tourists with a sword on Black Rock Main Road, St Michael this morning.The women – one Spanish and the other Polish – sustained injuries but...
View ArticleSenator: Tweak free bus fares system
A Government senator says she supports the policy of free bus fares, but it should be tweaked.Senator Irene Sandiford–Garner, speaking this evening in the Senate on the Appropriation Bill 2014–2015,...
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BWA home 50 per cent complete
Construction work on the new $63 million headquarters of the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) is running ahead of schedule, with the plant expected to open for business next April.The new Barbados Water...
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New water plan before Cabinet
A comprehensive revised plan is now before Cabinet, designed to protect this island’s critical drinking water from contamination and abuse.News of the plan came this morning from Minister of Water...
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