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NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE – CTUSAB says 2017 was a challenging year for Barbados
NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE: GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS AND STAFF ASSOCIATIONS DENNIS DePEIZA. As the year 2018 commences, the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados...
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NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE – BHTA calls for creativity in presenting island’s unique...
NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE: CHAIRMAN OF THE BHTA ROSEANNE MYERS 2018 is here and as we optimistically look forward to the New Year, the idea of New Year’s resolutions come to the fore. In this regard, the...
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Former Erdiston Principal honoured for outstanding contribution to education
Barbara Parris was lauded for her outstanding work in education as the Erdiston Teachers’ Training College held a retirement celebration in her honour this weekend. The former Principal spent more than...
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Top honours for nine Barbadians
Nine Barbadians have been honoured in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. The recipients include leading figures from the labour movement, education, the church and the public service. Commander of...
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Harold Hoyte hospitalised in Florida
Veteran Barbadian journalist and Chairman and Editor Emeritus of the Nation Publishing Company, Harold Hoyte, is hospitalized in Florida, United States after suffering a brain aneurysm on Old Year’s...
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Minister Inniss’ wish list for 2018
Outspoken Government Minister Donville Inniss has two main wishes for Barbados this year – for residents to be more focused on what direction they want to take the country and for the struggling...
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Police probe discovery of a body
Police are continuing investigations into circumstances surrounding the death of a man, whose lifeless body was found around 8:20 this morning. According to lawmen, the body was discovered by a...
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Two Christ Church residents to appear in court on drug charges tomorrow
Two Christ Church residents are set to appear in court tomorrow after being nabbed with a significant quantity of illegal drugs on Saturday. They are 36-year-old Antoinette Cyrillene Thomas of McClean...
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Fire leaves family of four homeless at the start of a New Year
Three young children and their 36-year-old mother, Kimberley Hunte, are now homeless following an afternoon fire that destroyed their home at Perfection Road, Bush Hall, St Michael. Fire officials said...
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Bail for two Christ Church residents nabbed at airport with drugs
Two Christ Church residents today pleaded guilty to several drug offences and were granted bail. Antoinette Cyrillene Thomas, 36, of McClean Road, Silver Sands, and Roger Orlando Holder, 50, of Apt 3,...
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UPDATE-Police probe discovery of a body
Following the discovery of a lifeless body on Monday, police have identified the victim as 69-year-old Tyrone Stoute, alias “Pitiful”, of no fixed place of abode. The discovery was made by a...
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Long overdue!
Attorney-at-law and Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) Senator Wilfred Abrahams says the decision to appoint Donna Babb-Agard, QC, as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) was a no brainer and...
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Govt MP wants free bus rides for students reviewed
Two of Government’s flagship social programmes could come under pressure this year as the Freundel Stuart administration explores various avenues to slash a ballooning national deficit of five per cent...
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Take down Nelson this year, says Denny
The New Year has not ushered in an easing up of debate over the controversial statue of British admiral Horatio Nelson, which was defaced on the eve of Barbados’ independence last November. With...
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New Year’s honourees pleased with their awards
They gave years of dedicated service to their professions, which ranged from teaching to catering to senior positions in the public service. And, as a New Year’s gift, nine distinguished Barbadians...
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Hidden agenda
Minister of International Business, Industry, Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss is questioning the motive of Chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) Charles...
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Don’t blame the private sector for economic mess – Herbert
The business community has fired back at Government backbencher James Paul advising him to look in the mirror for the reason the private sector is not reinvesting in the ailing economy. Paul last week...
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Poor judgment
It is not every day that a High Court Judge in Barbados is verbally attacked by a senior practitioner in the judicial system. However, today, Justice Olson Alleyne was on the receiving end of a severe...
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YEAR IN REVIEW – Emotional goodbyes – 2017
2017 for all of its accomplishments will also go down as the year in which Barbados lost some of its most illustrious sons and daughters of the soil. Topping that list was former Governor General Sir...
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Man charged with murder of Rihanna’s cousin
A 23-year-old St Michael man is due to appear in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today charged with the murder of 21-year-old Tavon Kaiseen Alleyne, of Lakes Close, Eden Lodge, St Michael. Lawmen...
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