Silence in court
The Mia Mottley-administration is yet to respond to a challenge lodged by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against the country’s buggery and indecency laws, leaving a local...
View ArticleCommunity policing ‘to boost confidence in RBPF’
A former high-ranking police officer has called Government to provide the Royal Barbados Police Force with the resources to expand community policing, in a bid to restore trust in the police. The...
View ArticleTime to cash in as original spirit-maker
Perhaps the time has come for Barbados to stop exporting bulk rum and bottle more of the spirits on island in order to create additional value. This recommendation was put forward by Managing Director...
View ArticleGovernment ‘on new path’ to technical assistance
Technical assistance, the hands-on aid that donors and institutions contribute to Barbados, will get greater respect by the Mottley administration in its drive to reform the country’s management,...
View ArticleSt Leonard’s School boy stabbed
Police are investigating a stabbing incident involving two students from the St Leonard’s Boys School. According to lawmen, a 14-year-old boy stabbed a 16-year-old along Barbarees Hill, St Michael. The...
View ArticleMurder accused remanded to GIS
A male student of the Frederick Smith Secondary School was today charged with the November 8th murder of Temario Cavone Emmanuel Holder. The minor, appeared in the Holetown Magistrate’s Court and was...
View ArticleIn a bind
Over a week after the fatal stabbing of a 16-year old student at the Frederick Smith Secondary School, parents, teachers and the education ministry appear in limbo over whether the St James institution...
View ArticleNurses search starts
A delegation comprising the country’s top healthcare officials is currently in Ghana tasked with bringing 120 nurses to Barbados’ shores by the end of January, Minister of Health and Wellness...
View ArticleSobers caught
Convicted man Timothy Paul Sobers who is on remand at Dodds awaiting his fate for assaulting a little girl, was before the law courts again today, this time on a theft charge. When the 2nd Avenue Sealy...
View ArticlePaying tribute
A “priceless” afternoon in the Court of Appeal today as glowing tributes were paid at a special sitting in recognition of five former attorneys-at-law, who will be missed at the Bar. The late Sir Fred...
View Article‘Garbage trucks but no buses yet by year-end’
New garbage trucks are to arrive by year-end but the country’s first electric buses won’t be on the road until the middle of 2020, Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn has revealed. “As it...
View ArticleFatal knifing ‘stuns’ BSTU head
“The level of violence among students in Barbados has past crisis level.” Those sombre words were echoed by president of the Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU) Mary Redman moments after news...
View ArticleMinister: BWA aware of its obligation to customers
Minister of Energy and Water Resources Wilfred Abrahams is suggesting that there is no need for panic following the Fair Trading Commission’s (FTC) reversal of its earlier ruling to suspend the...
View ArticleSocial reform on Government’s radar
As Government continues to make “good progress” in implementing its economic reform programme, residents are being promised that social transformation is not being ignored. This assurance has come from...
View ArticleAmid pain, Temario Holder’s friends raise funeral funds
Struggling to erase gruesome images of the slaying they witnessed amid sleepless nights, Frederick Smith Secondary School students have announced an initiative to help give fallen classmate Temario...
View Article‘Recent rains no fix for water woes’, says Abrahams
Heavy rainfall over the last two weeks, including a nine-inch deluge last weekend, won’t be enough to end the island’s water shortage, Minister of Water Resources Wilfred Abrahams has told Barbados...
View Article‘Talk about a living wage’, Govt told
Government needs to introduce a policy to establish “a living wage”, a key figure in the international civil service community has suggested, even as she endorsed plans for a minimum wage law. A living...
View ArticleFire bug bites
A woman in her 50’s is now homeless after fire destroyed her two-bedroom housing unit at Martins Road, Pine St Michael around 1:30 a.m. on Friday. Evelyn Sealy who lived in the home for the past 28...
View Article‘Check schools before you study’ – BAC
People seeking post-secondary studies should first make sure the institutions they want to attend are accredited, according to agency that certifies schools and colleges. The Barbados Accreditation...
View Article‘Short pay’ still worries ex-worker
Despite a visit to the Labour Office and promises of payment from his former employer, Copacabana Beach Club, Jovian Skeete is yet to receive all the wages he is entitled to. Things reached a boiling...
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