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Another Campus Trendz murderer appeals
Judgment has been reserved in an appeal by death row inmate Jamar Dwayne Bynoe to his 2016 conviction for murdering six women in the September 3, 2010 Campus Trendz fire. Bynoe, of Headley’s Land, Bank...
View ArticleOvercrowding in ‘shoddy’ NHC units – Grant
With poor maintenance resulting in dilapidated structures at several National Housing Corporation (NHC) projects across the island, community activist Rodney Grant is concerned that overcrowding has...
View Article‘Higher standard’ for BNSI
In a bid to bring Barbadian products and services up to international standards, Government is seeking to upgrade the national agency charged with setting the bar, Minister of Commerce Dwight...
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‘Forgotten’
Some fisherfolk operating on the country’s eastern coastline feel forgotten by local authorities and are becoming increasingly restless about deteriorating working conditions. Fish vendors and other...
View Article‘Watch out for children this summer’
Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw is appealing to parents and guardians to be aware of their children’s whereabouts this summer vacation, especially since a number of school plants will be...
View ArticleStop preying on disabled women
The new President of the Barbados Council for the Disabled (BCD) is concerned about sexual predators who are looking to take advantage of disabled women, and some men too. Kerry Ann Ifill said she was...
View ArticleCourt ‘quandary’
The Supreme Court acknowledged today it is caught in a “conundrum” when it comes to sentencing murder convicts after the nation’s highest court struck down the mandatory death sentence. That was the...
View ArticleConcern on rising workplace illness, injury
Suggesting that more people have been falling ill or getting hurt in the workplace, health experts today said more hectic lifestyles, together with so-called buildings and workplace health and safety...
View ArticleMore ‘power to the people’ with Thorne Commission
A Government commission launched today to oversee the setting up of community-based People’s Assemblies, is being touted as the first step in putting power back into the hands of the people. Prime...
View ArticleDeath rocks disabled community
The murder of a deaf man last weekend has rocked the local disabled community. New President of the Barbados Council for the Disabled (BCD) and former President of the Senate of Barbados Kerry-Ann...
View ArticleBeware of fake money this Crop Over
Below is a full statement by the Central Bank of Barbados. With the Crop Over festival shifting into high gear, the Central Bank of Barbados is advising both retailers and the public to be on the...
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Wanted: Another person of interest in ATM fraud
The Royal Barbados Police Force wants help in identifying and locating the individual captured in the attached images. Police say he is a suspect in a number of reported cases of ATM fraud. The public...
View ArticleSmith out
It is official. After close to five decades, the tenure of Roslyn Smith as General Secretary of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), has come to an end. In a press release this afternoon, the...
View ArticleWay clear for courts to act
Any constitutional amendments to give judges the power to impose the death penalty, have already been made. That is the word from Attorney General Dale Marshall, who today sought to clear the air after...
View ArticleCharges refiled in court martial
Ordinary Seaman, Tyrrel Gibbons, will have a fresh trial, says his attorney. With two adjournments in as many months and procedural concerns casting a shadow of uncertainty over the court martial of...
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Missing man not ‘wanted’
The Oscar Suarez who went missing with his girlfriend, Magdalena Devil during a west coast jet ski ride is no U.S fugitive, lawmen have confirmed. [caption id="attachment_303276" align="aligncenter"...
View ArticlePeace talks
CARICOM has claimed for itself a victory in the ongoing Venezuelan crisis, declaring that talks in Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines’ taking a seat in the UN Security Council vindicated the...
View ArticleNothing to fear from hotel project – Tempro
Residents of Rockley, Christ Church, have nothing to fear regarding the proposed redevelopment of the Blue Horizon Hotel. That assurance has come from the project’s developers Blue Tourism Inc, who...
View ArticleBusiness trust loan’s directors, minister met
The Government unit that was set up to lend seed money to micro and small businesses last year has held its first meeting as a newly corporatised state enterprise, the Barbados Trust Fund Limited. The...
View ArticleBank urges patience
Republic Bank has joined a growing list of financial institutions assisting police with their investigations into an ATM skimming scandal as police reveal the possible involvement of a third suspect in...
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