Sandy Lane hopeful in the face of challenges
Barbados’ most luxurious hotel continues to face a number of “external challenges”, but officials say they are hopeful of a strong 2018 performance. Without specifying the challenges facing the...
View ArticleWork begins on Youth Empowerment Centre at Silver Hill
Barbados is set to open its first Youth Empowerment Centre is six months time. Word of this comes from Minister of Culture Stephen Lashley who was on hand Friday morning for the ground breaking of the...
View ArticleBLP rubbishes claim that it stole ideas from Solutions Barbados
The Barbados Labour Party on Saturday dismissed claims made by Solutions Barbados’ Grenville Phillips II, that the BLP copied several of his party’s ideas and passed them off as its own. Phillips, in...
View ArticleChurch leaders pray for divine intervention as sewage mess continues
Alarmed by the plight of South Coast residents and business owners, a group of local churches, led by Restoration Ministries and Prayer Warriors International, gathered at the Accra Beach on Saturday...
View ArticleFogging schedule March 19 – 23
The Vector Control Unit of the Ministry of Health resumes its fogging programme aimed at eradicating the Aedes aegypti mosquito this week. On Monday, March 19, a team will be in St Andrew fogging...
View ArticleGermany issues travel advisory against Barbados due to sewage mess
Germany has become the latest country to issue a travel advisory for Barbados because of the ongoing sewage mess. “On the south coast of Barbados between Hastings and St Lawrence, there is currently a...
View ArticleInce confident he’ll take St George North seat
Senator Jepter Ince is optimistic all 3,361 St George North who did not vote in the last election will vote for him this time around. The Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Finance was speaking...
View ArticleBlackman and Gallop Primary and Thelma Berry Nursery to reopen Monday
The Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation wishes to inform parents and guardians of students of Blackman and Gollop Primary and Thelma Berry Nursery that both schools will reopen...
View ArticleNUPW not politically aligned, says McDowall
President of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) Akanni McDowall on Sunday said the union is not politically aligned and has no political motives. McDowall, speaking at the annual church...
View ArticlePolice investigate unnatural death
Police are investigating the unnatural death of a woman at St Lawrence, Christ Church. (more details as they come to hand.)
View ArticleUpdate: Police probe unnatural death of Christ Church woman
Police are investigating the unnatural death of 56-year-old Laura Springer of #21 St Lawrence Road, Christ Church. Lawmen discovered Springer’s lifeless body at her home around 6:30 a.m. Police are...
View ArticleBizzy’s beef
Business magnate Ralph Bizzy Williams is questioning the level of respect which authorities here have for local entrepreneurs, after the management of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA)...
View ArticleDems plotting mischief in order to blame Bees – Lovell
The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has made some damning allegations against the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), claiming the incumbent was plotting to cause trouble and blame it on the Bees. Party...
View ArticleHall: Red caps must help improve visitor experience
With the island’s tourism brand coming under increasing pressure, the Barbados Tourism Product Authority (BTPA) is calling on red cap workers at Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) to play a...
View ArticleSugar limbo
With the 2018 sugar season yet to get under way, workers are threatening “serious disruptions” unless the Barbados Agricultural Management Company Ltd (BAMC) addresses some major concerns. Key among...
View ArticleDLP eyeing north
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is promising to launch an “assault”, as he announced last night that the incumbent Democratic Labour Party (DLP) intended to sweep all the constituencies in the north in...
View ArticleBLP attacks Solutions Barbados over manifesto claims
The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has launched an onslaught on the three-year-old Solutions Barbados, which last week all but accused the Bees of plagiarising its manifesto. The BLP’s Kerrie Symmonds,...
View ArticleStabbed to death!
Carla Springer-Jordan had a premonition last night that something had gone terribly wrong with her mother, Laura Springer, but she ignored her intuition. As it turned out, her gut feeling became a...
View ArticleNatlee quits prostitution for politics
Having created a stir by announcing last week her intention to contest the next general election, sex worker Natalie Natlee Harewood now says she is giving up prostitution for politics. Harewood, whose...
View ArticleMia wants charges brought against Maloney
Opposition Leader Mia Mottley says it’s unfair that the mother of deceased 11-year-old Elijah Holder-Phillips is the only one facing criminal charges following his untimely death nearly three years...
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