Windies crush England in opening Test
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 26, CMC – West Indies crushed hapless England by 381 runs inside four days here Saturday, to win the opening Test at Kensington Oval and take a shock 1-0 lead in the...
View ArticleBarbados records second road fatality
Barbados has recorded its second road fatality for 2019. Police reported on Saturday that 30-year-old Hamal Amal Lamar Phillips of Jackson Terrace, Stage 2, St Michael, was injured in an accident which...
View ArticleChase slices through England to set up crushing win
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 26, CMC – BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 26, CMC – Off-spinner Roston Chase’s career-best eight-wicket haul propelled a dominant West Indies to their second largest win ever over...
View ArticleAccused car thief bailed
St Michael resident Kismar OBrian Bynoe is due back in court in May to answer to charges of handling stolen property. Thirty-three-year-old Bynoe of #3 Brown’s Avenue, Bayland, St Michael, was charged...
View ArticleReverend Michael Maxwell ordained Anglican Bishop
Scores of people gathered at the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex on Saturday evening to witness the ordination of Reverend Michael Bruce St John Maxwell as the 14th Bishop of Anglican Diocese of...
View ArticleHolder becomes first top-ranked Windies Test all-rounder since Sir Garfield...
Captain Jason Holder has become the first Windies player in 45 years to top the list of all-rounders in the MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings after slamming an unbeaten double-century that helped...
View ArticlePM Mottley to attend CARICOM-UN talks on Venezuela
Prime Minister Mia Mottley will join two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) colleagues in New York on Monday for talks with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to discuss the crisis in Venezuela....
View ArticlePybus confident of Windies potential after victory
West Indies interim head coach Richard Pybus believes Saturday’s stunning 381-run victory over England in the opening Test was an indication of the team's true potential. The hosts handed England a...
View ArticleTrevor Bayliss wants England to show more guts
CRICINFO - Trevor Bayliss has questioned the "guts and determination" of his England side after their chastening defeat in the first Test in Barbados. Bayliss, the England coach, described himself as...
View ArticleMeet Barbados’ latest centenarian
Miss Lilian Carmen Batson, celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by family and friends at her Montrose, Christ Church residence today. The island’s latest centenarian also enjoyed the company of...
View ArticleColeridge and Parry School closed
The Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training has advised that the Coleridge and Parry School, at Ashton Hall, St Peter, will be closed from tomorrow, Tuesday, January 29. It will...
View ArticlePuzzling move
Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s recent appointment of former Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin as a crime consultant to the current Commissioner Tyrone Griffith has raised a red flag from ex-Attorney...
View ArticleUPP wants answers about ex- COP’s role
The United Progressive Party is demanding Government provides greater details on the consultative function to be performed by former Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin. As a matter of fact, head of...
View ArticleSSB loophole
Forty per cent of products is escaping the ten per cent tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB), prompting a researcher at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies to recommend...
View ArticleBishop Maxwell enthroned
The final episode in the extended process of appointing a new Bishop was finally concluded with the enthronement of the Right Reverend Michael Bruce St John Maxwell this evening. The 14th Bishop to...
View ArticleMarzville only Bajan in semis
For the third consecutive year, Barbadian soca artiste Marzville will be vying for the 2019 Fantastic Friday International Soca Monarch. The Give It To You singer has made it to the semifinals of the...
View ArticleMa Carmen reaches 100
Lilian Carmen Batson, affectionately known as Ma Carmen, celebrated her 100th birthday today with family, friends and the Governor General of Barbados Dame Sandra Mason. The retired labourer, mother to...
View ArticleDanger gone
The controversial structure which once served as the entrance to the Villages in Coverley, Christ Church, is gone. And while the African Heritage Foundation (AHF), which had lobbied for its removal is...
View Article‘Violent attacks deep-rooted’
The National Organization of Women (NOW) is calling on authorities to take a closer look at the circumstances surrounding the bizarre string of violent events which last week claimed the lives of three...
View ArticleMan to be charged with three murders
Police might have a suspected serial killer on their hands. Barbados TODAY understands that a man is presently in police custody in connection with the brutal killings of at least two females and one...
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