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A cry for justice, officials remember 1976 Cubana tragedy
Forty-two years after the 1976 bombing of Cubana Airlines flight 455 from Barbados to Jamaica, the families of the 73 passengers and crew members who lost their lives are still grieving and the Cuban...
View ArticlePolice probe shooting incident at Lightfoot Lane, St Michael
Police are investigating a shooting incident at Lightfoot Lane, St Michael. Barbados TODAY understands that a male was injured. (more details as they come to hand.) The post Police probe shooting...
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ZR driver injured in accident on ABC Highway
ZR driver, 35-year-old Tony Yearwood suffered injuries today after his vehicle overturned along the Barrow stretch of the ABC Highway around 12:15 p.m. Yearwood of Eden Lodge, St Michael was the lone...
View ArticleUpdate: Shooting incident Lightfoot Lane, St Michael
A 38-year-old St Michael man is nursing gun shot injuries following a shooting incident at Lightfoot Lane, St Michael earlier this afternoon. Wayne Barker of Bush Hall, St Michael suffered a gun shot...
View ArticleBarbadians to pay less for gas and LPG, diesel and kerosene prices rise
Consumers will be paying less for gasoline and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), while the prices for diesel and kerosene will increase effective midnight Sunday. Gasoline will now be sold at $3.89 per...
View ArticleTown and Country Development Planning Office to remain closed
The Town and Country Development Planning Office will remain closed until Wednesday, October 10, as a result of environmental issues, a release issued by the Barbados Government Information Service...
View ArticleGovernment to assist pensioners affected by debt restructuring exercise
Prime Minister Mia Mottley this evening outlined Government’s plan to cushion the blow of the debt restructuring exercise on the island’s pensioners. Speaking at a Barbados Labour Party branch meeting...
View ArticlePolice seize guns, ammunition and drugs in St George operation
Several people are in police custody assisting with investigations into the seizure of guns, ammunition and a quantity of illegal drugs over the weekend. This follows a police operation on Saturday...
View ArticleCEO of Washington University to face multiple charges
The Chief Executive Officer of Washington University (Barbados) Inc is set to appear before the St Matthias Magistrates' Court on multiple charges today. Rao Venkata Gopi, 42 of #11 Falcon Crest,...
View ArticleNo proof of address required, says Ministry of Transport
The public is no longer required to produce evidence of address when registering a vehicle or renewing a driver’s licence. News of this has come from the Ministry of Transport, Works and Maintenance...
View ArticleStephen: Confidence in Govt at ‘new low’
The Government’s debt restructuring exercise may have shattered investor confidence in buying Government securities in the future, a noted economist has said. And Jeremy Stephen is predicting that the...
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‘Not a word’
As the chief executive officer of the now shuttered Washington University of Barbados sits on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds on several fraud charges, the Cabinet minister under whose watch the...
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Disgraceful
A church in Lightfoot Lane proved no sanctuary from the gunplay plaguing the nation, as the Christian Mission Church became the latest scene of a shooting on Sunday afternoon which left a Bush Hall, St...
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Workers flee odour at stats office
Workers in the Statistical Department evacuated the building today as a pungent odour emanated from the fifth floor of the Baobab Towers, Warrens St Michael this morning. The stench was so nauseating...
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Retail outlook for Christmas ‘mixed’
Merchants in Bridgetown have given a mixed outlook for the Christmas shopping season. This, amid some Barbadians’ continuing outcries that their spending power has been reduced as a raft of taxes and...
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Agriculture to the rescue
Farming and fishing’s role in fighting a triple threat of lifestyle diseases, youth joblessness and climate change is to be examined by agricultural industry figures as Barbados hosts the Caribbean...
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Water and garbage don’t mix
The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) and the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) stepped in jointly today to avert a potential public health hazard in the community of Bowling Alley, St Joseph. Water and...
View ArticleYouth need ‘safe spaces’ – BYDC
While take a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to violence, the Barbados Youth Development Council (BYDC) is suggesting that young people at risk of becoming either aggressors or victims need spaces to find...
View ArticleBeating gone bad?
The alleged physical assault of a student by a teacher at St Leonard’s Boys’ School which left the boy blinded in one eye, is in the early stages of investigation by the Ministry of Education and the...
View ArticlePolice seek witnesses for Belleplaine court
The prosecutor at the Belleplaine Court is asking the following persons who are involved in a number of matters currently engaging the attention of the court to contact the Belleplaine Court as soon as...
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