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Police probe unnatural death
Police are investigating the unnatural death of a 23-year-old male at Smith Road, Pine, St Michael. Police Public Relations Officer Acting Inspector Roland Cobbler told Barbados TODAY the man was...
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Gittens released on $9000 bail
Forty-six-year-old Tedroy Henderson Glenfield Gittens was granted $9000 bail with one surety after appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today on eight drug charges. Gittens was arrested on...
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Barbados hailed for effort
Barbados squandered an ideal opportunity to capture the 2017 Windward Islands Football Association championship trophy but technical director Ahmed Mohammed still praised the national side for giving...
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‘We will forgive you’
With elections around the corner, a new “economic solution” has been put on the table that, if deemed feasible by the electorate, will not only lead to a repeal of the dreaded National Social...
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‘Retail therapy’
A 31-year-old mother, who said she was “depressed and frustrated” when she stole a pair of shoes, has been placed on a bond for the next 18 months. Shida Sandora Gilkes, of 2nd Avenue, Beckles Hill, St...
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Man accused of cursing his grandmother
A 26-year-old man, who cursed his grandmother and damaged her property, will know his fate on December 19. When Abayomi Yohannes Lopez, of Belfield Land, St Michael, appeared before Magistrate Kristie...
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Petty thief gets away with time served
A 44-year-old man walked out of the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today a free man after spending 140 days on remand at HMP Dodds on a charge of theft. Artifus Akelton Flavius, of Trents, St James,...
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Carpenter accused of eight drug offences
A 46-year-old St Michael man, accused of eight drug offences, was granted $9,000 bail today in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. Tedroy Henderson Glenfield Gittens, of Military Road, Bush Hall, is...
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Not daunted
A leading retail furniture and appliance store says it is simply not daunted by Barbados’ ongoing economic troubles, which have been highlighted by a ballooning national debt in excess of 100 per cent...
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Expert warns of too much uncertainty in Barbados’ tax system
As the Freundel Stuart administration struggles to collect more than a billion owed to it in taxes, one international tax expert based in Barbados is warning of the need for a clear tax structure that...
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Bim woos Latin American offshore companies
Barbados is reaching out to Latin America in an effort to attract international business companies, and is using its “favourable tax treaties and tax laws” as a hook. And even though the business...
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Not all bad
In his first public comment on a cutlass attack at The Ellerslie School last week, Minister of Education Ronald Jones today promised to be tough on students who threaten to “run havoc” at school. At...
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Jones supports father facing assault charges over bullied son
A father who is facing a number of charges stemming from angry visits to Christ Church Foundation School and Deighton Griffith Secondary School, today received the support of Minister of Education...
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Adopt ISO standard or be fired, Phillips warns
Chief executives of some of the island’s top statutory corporations are being put on notice that should the fledgling Solutions Barbados win the next general election they will be forced to adopt its...
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Secret BLP plan
One of Barbados’ newest political parties is warning that if the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) wins the next election, it will take the country straight into the hands of the International...
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Son’s hanging death comes as a shock
A St Michael mother this morning experienced a nightmare no parent ever wishes to live through when she discovered the lifeless body of her son hanging from the ceiling of her three-bedroom, Smith...
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Strike action looming at SSA
Aggrieved workers of the state-owned Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) are scheduled to meet with their union tomorrow morning amid the threat of industrial action. The 6.30 a.m. meeting of all SSA...
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Missing teenager: Rotonia Tamara Mayers
Police are searching for a missing teenager. She is Rotonia Tamara Mayers of Round Rock, Silver Sands, Christ Church. Mayers was last seen by her mother last week Thursday at home around 5:30 p.m. At...
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Wanted: Shaquille Cumberbatch, Jermaine Gill
Police are on the hunt for two men wanted in connection with serious criminal matters. Wanted is twenty-two-year-old Shaquille O’Neal Orlando Cumberbatch alias Shaq from 3rd Avenue Paris Gap,...
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Bicyclist injured
A seventeen-year-old bicyclist was left nursing injuries after he lost control while riding this morning. According to police at the scene, Akindoran Webster, was riding along St Helen’s Road, St...
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