Path to citizenship for wealthy
Government is building a new immigration platform to allow high-net-worth individuals who want to reside and invest in Barbados to get permanent residency status and ultimately citizenship. Minister of...
View Article#BTEditorial – The law is not an ass; perhaps we citizens are!
Over the past few years, having monitored the deliberations in the Magistrates’ Courts, we have come to the conclusion that Douglas Frederick is among the best court officials in the island, if not the...
View ArticlePolice band ‘SOS’
After 130 years, the future of the Royal Barbados Police Force Band is being threatened by a lack of fresh blood, a member of the police high command has warned. But Deputy Commissioner of Police Oral...
View ArticleCity shelter now open, greets five
First five then eight people have spent the first two nights in the City’s first purpose-built homeless shelter since the Barbados Alliance to End Homelessness officially opened its doors on Spry...
View ArticleUpdate: St Albans Primary closed on Friday
The Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training has advised that there will be no classes at the St. Albans Primary School tomorrow, Friday, January 17. However, the school will be...
View ArticleJury begins deliberations
After more than five hours of summation and arguments this morning, a 12-member jury has started deliberations in the Donville Inniss’ bribery trial. A tense looking Inniss had paid close attention to...
View ArticleGuilty! Donville Inniss convicted of money laundering, conspiracy
NEW YORK – Former government minister Donville Inniss has been found guilty of all three criminal counts he faced in a United States federal district court. A 12-member jury came to the unanimous...
View ArticleDLP says Inniss’ guilty verdict is a sad day for Barbados
Democratic Labour Party (DLP) President Verla De Peiza has described the guilty verdict against ex-government minister Donville Inniss as a “sad day for the country and the DLP.” A 12-member jury came...
View ArticlePoliceman recalls accused’s statements regarding shooting
Inspector Peter Dawson testified today that accused Tevin Ramon Skeete said he “beat a shot” while at St Elmo’s Mini Mart in St Lucy on January 14, 2011. The evidence was given this afternoon in the...
View ArticleSt Joseph man admits to drugs charges
It took a St Joseph man over a decade to accept responsibility for a number of drug offences after he was caught with the illicit substance within Barbados’ territorial waters. Shurland Nathaniel...
View ArticleDifferent outcome for two accused
A couple facing charges of criminal deception appeared in a Bridgetown court yesterday but while one was released on bail, the other was not so fortunate. Noel Lionel Taylor, 42, of Galloway Lane,...
View ArticleProsecutors detail how Inniss abused his position
Prosecutors Sylvia Shweder and David Gopstein this morning convinced a 12-member jury that Donville Inniss had accepted two bribes from the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL) and that he...
View ArticleArthur’s medicine for carrier’s revival
Owen Arthur has warned his former counterpart in the Caribbean that the beleaguered regional carrier LIAT won’t survive their imposition of hefty airport taxes. The newly appointed chairman of LIAT –...
View ArticleAnother toast … to breathalyzer
Another major rum-maker has thrown support behind Government’s introduction of breathalyzer testing, saying the distillery also wants people to drink rum responsibly. Managing Director of the West...
View ArticleSt Albans murder: Of counsellors and coping
For the second time in three months, grief counsellors are headed to a school to help children and teachers cope with the trauma of a brazen slaying. But Principal of the St. Albans Primary School,...
View ArticleDLP head: Conviction a ‘cautionary tale’
In early reaction to the conviction of Democratic Labour Party stalwart Donville Inniss on bribery-related money laundering and conspiracy charges, president Verla De Peiza tonight said the verdict...
View ArticleAG: ‘Lawful’ crackdown on killers, extra help to cops
Extra resources are to be poured into the Royal Barbados Police Force to apprehend “lawless villains” who continue to wreak havoc on the society, said Attorney General Dale Marshall as the 51st murder...
View ArticleRum-makers report rising sales
One of Barbados’ main rum producers is reporting a major turn around in its export business, which climbed over 80 per cent in the last three years. Officials of the Barbados West Indies Rum Distillery...
View ArticleUWI students offer City makeover plan
University of the West Indies students have proposed a makeover of cultural and heritage attractions in Bridgetown and Oistins in a bid to attract more people and boost tourist spending. A group...
View ArticleDe Peiza: Get serious about preserving Barrow’s home
With just five days to go before Barbados celebrates the centennial of the Father of Independence, the Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, the leader of the party he founded has renewed calls for his...
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