Twenty-five-year old Tristan Kellman of St Margaret’s Village, St John has died in a road collision.
Police said Kellman was discovered motionless in a car along Carmichael, St George after officers responded to a report about 2:52 a.m. today.
Preliminary investigations, said police, confirmed that the car was travelling from the direction of Boarded Hall towards Carmichael Junction, St George when it became involved in a collision with a trailer.
Investigations are ongoing.
CG Zest Wellness, the wellness division of Coralisle Group Ltd., has officially launched in Barbados, expanding access to its corporate wellness programme for members of the Group Medical Insurance product offered through CG United Insurance Ltd.
The programme, which has operated for more than a decade in Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, provides access to health and wellness resources aimed at supporting workplace and community wellbeing and encouraging healthier lifestyles.
The Barbados rollout began in April 2025 and has already included health screenings, fitness events, farmers’ market tours and wellness education webinars.
Leading the local expansion is Ramon “Doddy” Dodson, Corporate Wellness Coordinator for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.
“In 2025, we energised our members and the wider community through health screenings, fitness events, farmer’s market tours, and wellness education webinars. We’ve seen many people take real steps toward better health,” Dodson said.
He added that the Zest Wellness app is central to the programme’s delivery.
“At the heart of the programme is the Zest Wellness app, powered by Personified Health, a leading global wellness company. This digital platform empowers members to set goals, track progress, access educational content, and connect with wellness coaches. Its user-friendly design ensures every member can embark on a personalised wellness journey.”
In addition to the app, the programme partners with local health and wellness businesses to provide discounts on products and services. According to CG, the initiative is intended to encourage community engagement, improve work-life balance and support long-term wellness habits.
Looking ahead, CG Zest Wellness said it plans to expand its offerings in summer 2026 with new initiatives, including Lifestyle Lift, a multi-week wellness series led by wellness experts and designed around emerging health trends.
Jacqueline Perreault, Director of Wellness at Coralisle Group, said the initiative reflects the company’s broader wellness goals.
“Through the Zest Wellness programme, CG is committed to fostering healthy lifestyles for Barbadians and our members. By providing innovative programs, practical tools, and opportunities for community engagement, we help people create lasting habits that support wellbeing now and for years to come.” (JC)
Police have identified the victim in Friday morning’s fatal shooting at Martins Road, Pinelands, St Michael, as 30-year-old Darius Anthony Perch of Maple Path, Pinelands.
According to police, Perch was sitting in a motor car outside a residence around 9:40 a.m. when an assailant discharged several gunshots, injuring him.
Ambulance personnel responded to the scene and found no signs of life. A medical doctor later pronounced death.
Police at District ‘A’ Station are continuing investigations and are appealing to anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-8477, Police Emergency at 211, or District ‘A’ Police Station at 430-7242 or 430-7246.
Gabriel Magalhaes skied the decisive spot-kick as Arsenal were denied a first Champions League triumph in a penalty shootout defeat by Paris St-Germain, who won the competition for a second successive year.
Mikel Arteta’s side lifted the Premier League title for the first time in 22 years last weekend, but missed out on a league and European double in the most heartbreaking of fashions in a hot and humid Puskas Arena.
But in a heartwarming moment, while PSG’s players celebrated wildly on the pitch, the French side’s captain Marquinhos immediately went to console his Brazilian team-mate Gabriel.
The Gunners had made a dream start to the final in Budapest when Kai Havertz, who scored the winning goal in the Champions League final for Chelsea against Manchester City in 2021, burst away from the PSG backline and rifled the ball into the roof of the net after only six minutes.
But from then on it was PSG’s final, as they took control, dominating large chunks of the game, with Gabriel and William Saliba making a number of vital interventions as the Arsenal defence dealt with waves of attacks from Luis Enrique’s side.
Arteta had a number of big calls to make for this game and opted to continue with 19-year-old Myles Lewis-Skelly in midfield, while he stuck with Cristhian Mosquera, who was filling in at right-back for the injured Ben White and the not fully fit Jurrien Timber.
And it was a clumsy Mosquera tackle that led to PSG’s second-half equaliser. The Spaniard was caught out by a clever Khvicha Kvaratskhelia run and brought the winger down in the area, with Ousmane Dembele rolling in the resulting penalty.
Arsenal were forced to defend inside their own half for most of the game as PSG enjoyed 75% of possession and the French side almost won it in normal time with Kvaratskhelia hitting the post and Vitinha going close from the edge of the area.
Arteta completely changed his frontline as his side tired and the renewed energy led to a huge penalty shout when substitute Noni Madueke tangled with Nuno Mendes but referee Daniel Siebert waved away vociferous Arsenal protests that led to both Declan Rice and the manager being booked.
And after an extremely tense extra time it was centre-back Gabriel who missed the decisive penalty as PSG won the shootout 4-3 to retain the Champions League title.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake was recorded south of Barbados on Saturday afternoon, according to the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC).
The quake struck at about 5:27 p.m. local time and was located roughly 100 kilometres south of Bridgetown. It occurred about 53 kilometres below the surface.
The seismic centre said the location is based on early automated data and may be updated after further review by scientists.
There have been no reports of damage or injuries in Barbados so far.
For 65 years, the Port of Bridgetown has been at the centre of everyday life in Barbados. It’s where food, medicine, building materials, and goods arrive to keep businesses stocked and the economy moving. It’s where cruise ships dock and thousands of visitors step onto our shores. And it’s where thousands of Barbadians have built careers that support homes and communities across the island.
Chief Executive Officer of Barbados Port Inc. David Jean-Marie is proud of the milestone. He notes that over the past 65 years, the Port has delivered millions of tonnes of cargo, serviced thousands of customers, welcomed millions of visitors, and built an enviable network of connections in cargo and cruise.
“The Port of Bridgetown was founded on a commitment to serve its people, a pledge reinforced in multiple industry honours through the years. The numerous accolades earned include 13 Caribbean top port awards highlighting our outstanding performance in dependability and flexibility, port efficiency and productivity, growth and development, security, environmental preservation, occupational health and safety.”
This week, the Sunday Sun marks that milestone with a 32-page special feature on BPI. The pages take you inside the Port’s journey, from the early days when lightermen rowed small boats through the Careenage and Carlisle Bay to unload cargo by hand, to today’s modern operations with gantry cranes, container yards, and new technology guiding every move.
We also look forward. You’ll see how the new multi-million dollar Berth 6 expansion, the biggest project in the Port’s modern history, is helping cargo move faster and easing pressure during cruise season. You’ll learn how the Port functions and you’ll read about its work in the community.
Pick up this week’s Sunday Sun to see how BPI’s journey continues.
Barbadians can expect higher electricity bills after the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) approved an application by the Barbados Light & Power Company Ltd (BLPC) to recover the costs of temporary rental generators through the Fuel Clause Adjustment (FCA).
The decision, “with immediate effect”, was handed down last night by FTC chairman Donley Carrington following a five-hour virtual hearing and allows BLPC to recover the rental and operating costs associated with six megawatts of additional temporary generation and extends approval for the company’s existing 11 megawatts of temporary rental generation from end of this month through to December 31, 2027.
The FTC is the statutory body responsible for regulating utility services in Barbados and has the authority to approve, reject or modify applications made by utility providers, including requests that could affect the rates ultimately paid by consumers.
“This oral hearing is now called to order,” Carrington said at the start of proceedings, noting that the Commission was convened to consider BLPC’s request for approval to recover the costs of additional temporary generation through the FCA and to extend approval for the existing rental units.
Based on the BLPC website, “the FCA is a mechanism for the BLPC to recover the cost of fuel used in the production of electricity. The cost of fuel purchased is recovered and applied equally to all customer groups through the FCA charge. Changes in the FCA are influenced mainly by movements in the purchase price of fuel. The FCA is calculated monthly as the sum of the previous month’s cost of energy purchased and cost of fuel consumed, plus any cumulative over and under recovery divided by the kWh sales of the previous month. The cost of energy purchased includes energy purchased from renewable energy resources.”
The hearing panel comprised Carrington and Commissioners Dr Ankie Scott-Joseph, Genevieve Maynard, Jerry Franklin and Celiane Cicharan.
Appearing for BLPC were chief executive officer Roger Blackman, attorney Senator Ramon Alleyne along with attorneys Rene Butcher and Zaria Weatherhead. Representing the Office of Public Counsel was legal officer Danielle Cox on behalf of Public Counsel Sandra Rollins.
Intervenors included attorney Tricia Watson, Ricky Went, who appeared on behalf of the public, Stephen Worme and Maureen Holder, executive chairman of the Barbados Consumer Empowerment Network, who all made submissions.
At about 7:25 p.m., Carrington delivered the commission’s ruling after outlining the extensive material reviewed by the regulator.
“The commission has considered the application filed by the Barbados Light & Power Company Limited dated the 25th of November 2025, the affidavit and supporting materials filed in support of the application, the interrogatories and responses, the written submissions of the Barbados Light & Power Company, the Office of Public Counsel and the intervenors and the record as a whole,” he said.
“In addition, the commission considered the oral submissions made today.”
Before announcing the decision, he addressed concerns raised by Watson regarding the commission’s conduct.
“The commission rejects those allegations and insinuations as baseless and scandalous,” Carrington said, referring to claims suggesting the regulator had secretly pre-approved an earlier application or acted improperly during the process.
“The commission will disregard unsupported allegations and will decide the application on the record and in accordance with the law.”
He then announced the commission’s findings. “Having heard the applicant, the Office of Public Counsel and the intervenors, the commission is satisfied on the record presently before it that the application should be approved. Accordingly, the commission orders as follows: Barbados Light & Power Company is approved to extend the existing 11 temporary rental generator units and an additional six megawatts temporary rental units through to the 31st of December, 2027,” Carrington stated.
He noted that any future extension beyond that period would require further FTC approval.
“The Barbados Light & Power Company will be required to inform the commission in writing of the need for any extension of approval and any revised contractual details no later than four months prior to the expiration of the approved contract.”
Carrington also stressed that the commission’s approval was not a blank cheque for the utility.
“The Barbados Light & Power Company shall be limited to recover rental and operating costs associated with those units through the fuel cost adjustment and such costs to be prudently incurred, reasonable, properly attributable to the approved temporary rental generator units and supported by adequate records,” he said.
The chairman said the ruling should not be interpreted as approval for any permanent generation project. (NS)
Two more young men have been charged in connection with the recent attack on a tourist whom the court heard suffered a fractured skull. The incident occurred at Lower Bay Street, St Michael on May 17.
Kenavar Antwan Charles, 19, a tiler of Tweedside Road, St Michael and 18-year-old Xavier Xalico Joseph, a general worker of Cave Hill, St Michael appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Douglas Frederick yesterday and were remanded until June 23.
They were not required to plead to any of the four May 17 charges which were read to them.
The pair is accused of robbing Darin Sisco of two chains and a cellular phone valued $2028 and $1 622 respectively, robbing Larraine Sisco of a cellular phone worth $1 622 and committing serious bodily harm against Sisco with intent to maim, disfigure or disable him or to do him serious bodily harm.
Their final charge is that on the same date, while they were present together with other persons, used unlawful violence – and their conduct taken together was such that it would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene, to fear for their personal safety.
The accused men were unrepresented by attorneys.
The prosecutor’s objection to bail included reminding the court that “the two accused are part and parcel of the nine we had on Tuesday”.
Citing sections of the Bail Act, Sergeant Victoria Leacock stressed that their actions had endangered public safety – and that of a particular person. She also spoke to the degree of violence used and the prevalence of such crimes.
She noted that robberies and serious bodily harm offences were being carried out against tourists, and tourism “is the bread and butter industry” of Barbados. Whether such attacks were “provoked or targeted,” it has had an effect on locals and “visitors who are here and those who are thinking of coming here”, the prosecutor said.
Referring to Sisco’s condition, the prosecutor said he had a fractured skull.
What was of deeper concern, said Sergeant Leacock, was that none of the nine present said “let’s not do this but what we heard was ‘give me a knife . . . give me something’”. The court heard that Joseph was already on bail from the District “A” Magistrates’ Court No. 2 on a 2024 robbery matter, while simultaneously being on bail from the District “D” Magistrates’ Court for “plenty matters under the Theft Act”.
“The court extended grace to him, for him to go and continue his studies. I was present for that and the promise was that he would not appear on any other matters. We have helped them; we have tried to help them; I believe they need the structural environment now,” Leacock emphasised.
Even though the accused Charles was not known to the court, the prosecutor recommended that he too be remanded based on the strength of the evidence pointing to CCTV footage which was hard to watch.
The shock and outrage expressed by the public ought to also be considered, the Sergeant submitted.
When Acting Chief Magistrate Frederick asked Joseph whether he had anything to say, he replied “no”.
On the other hand, accused Charles outlined why he should not to be remanded.
“Sir, I ain’t had no plans to rob nobody nor do nobody serious bodily harm, so I ain’t really know where this coming from.”
He said he was “a working man” who worked for what he wanted and understood how he would feel if someone took his items.
“I honestly don’t believe I should be remanded. I ain’t no threat to society. I never even get charged. I never rob, I never snatch nobody chain.”
Charles added that he just finished learning tiling and barbering and he would hate to be remanded and lose his job, because he helps his single mother.
The acting Chief Magistrate considered the submissions and determined that both should be remanded, based on public outrage and the delicate medical position of Sisco and the possibility of a more serious charge for the accused.
“For the protection of society and yourselves at this time, I am remanding you in custody,” he told both accused. (SD)
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is challenging the business community to help lead Barbados out of its comfort zone and make a push towards achieving inclusive economic growth of three to five per cent.
As she celebrates eight years in office, Mottley said the economy was growing and investment was booming, with major new projects, including Government infrastructure and several branded hotels in the works.
This included not only the longmooted Hyatt Hotel in Bridgetown, but a likely second one bearing that same brand in Speightstown, St Peter, as a neighbour of the new Beaches property to be constructed by Sandals Resorts International at Heywoods.
The Prime Minister made a strong call for all Barbadians, including corporate Barbados, to lead the charge towards making the country world class over the next few years as she saluted the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) yesterday during its Legacy of Leaders Celebration Luncheon at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.
She wants Barbadians to focus on making their nation more resilient, innovative, productive and competitive and urged the private sector to show more leadership in these areas.
Calling the BCCI’s 200th anniversary celebration a significant event, Mottley said that “in this room lies the capacity for this country to determine where it wants to go”.
“Today, I stand before you leading a country that has had 20 straight quarters of economic growth, but a country that is faced both domestically and externally with challenges which cumulatively could destabilise us once again, or which, if overcome, can be the boon in our sails to allow us to go [up] rather than to dip,” she told the audience of some of Barbados’ leading entrepreneurs, business owners and senior executives, several of whom were recognised with awards.
“And the question remains: what is it that we collectively must do to be able to reach that pathway where instead of the comfort of two and a half per cent [economic] growth, sometimes three [per cent], that we set new horizons that ought to be within our reach to reach three to five per cent growth on a consistent basis, subject, of course, to global headwinds or natural disaster strikes.” Mottley said Government was playing its part in developing the country, including through the planned construction of a cruise pier at the Bridgetown Port, building a new Government Headquarters and having a new convention centre on the site of the old Geriatric Hospital. She also gave an update on major investments, particularly those in the tourism sector. This included the possibility that Barbados could have two Hyatt Hotels. “Indigo is open, Royalton effectively got their licences to do their soft opening this week and will be officially opened in mid-July. Pendry had the topup ceremony and will finish in a year’s time,” Mottley said. “Beaches is doing earthworks. There is a request for a Hyatt next to that. Pierhead [Project in Bridgetown], I just met with their developers this morning. Hyatt next door, I met with the Hyatt people from Latin America and the Caribbean because not just Speightstown, but Bridgetown that we know that we’ve been waiting on . . . . But it is almost here.
“The lot between those two, which is owned by the . . . owner of Indigo, who promised that once he finished Indigo, that would be the next undertaking,” she added, while reminding of the Afreximbank investment at Jemmotts Lane, St Michael, and work at Apes Hill, St James.
Mottley said the country “is going to have a conversation as well about the next zone for tourism”, including new offshore islands.
“We’ve paused because money was an issue, but if the revenue can accommodate it, we have to do the environmental, social and impact assessment on the possibility of . . . 400 acres of offshore islands on the southeastern coast of this country because that is what will drive the next 30 years of Barbados within the tourism sector,” she noted. (SC)
A US judge has ordered the removal of President Donald Trump’s name from the title of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The Washington DC venue cannot be renamed without congressional approval, the judge ruled on Friday, also blocking the centre’s temporary closure during upcoming proposed renovations.
Trump’s name must be taken off the institution’s title, its façade – as well as any other physical or digital signage – and official materials within 14 days, according to the order.
A spokesperson for the centre said it would appeal the name-change order. Trump wrote on social media that he will “be working with Congress to transfer this failing Institution back to them”.
“Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into ‘NEVER NEVER LAND’,” he said on Truth Social.
Trump announced the addition of his name to the institution, among other rebranding measures across the nation’s capital, last year.
In February 2025, he replaced several trustees on the centre’s board and appointed himself as a trustee before being voted in as the arts centre’s chairman.
In December, the board decided to rename the institution and new lettering bearing Trump’s full name was affixed to the centre’s front portico the following day.
The changes, including the re-naming, were followed by cancellations by artists booked at the venue and falling ticket sales.
In February, Trump announced a two-year closure of the venue for extensive renovations that begin on 4 July – “in honour of the 250th Anniversary of our Country”.
Board member Joyce Beatty, an Ohio congresswoman and Democrat, and other ex-trustees challenged Trump’s changes, alleging in a lawsuit that they were stripped of their right to vote on board matters.
They later amended the lawsuit to also challenge plans to close the venue for repairs.
“Today’s ruling rightly affirms that this administration’s efforts to rename and close the Center have no basis in law,” Beatty said in a statement.
“The Kennedy Center is an institution that belongs to the American people, not to Donald Trump. He has desecrated this sacred memorial for his own vanity. I am proud to have fought for the rule of law and to protect this sacred institution.”
Roma Daravi, the Kennedy Center’s spokeswoman, said in a statement to the BBC’s US partner CBS News: “We are confident that on appeal the court will uphold the Board’s will to recognise President Trump’s historic contributions to our nation’s cultural center.”
Daravi said it will also review the judge’s decision on the renovations closure – “though the reality remains – the Center requires an urgent and significant restoration – a truth that even the plaintiff acknowledges”.
She added: “With $257 million secured by President Trump and approved by Congress, the resources are in place and we remain committed to pursuing every lawful avenue to ensure the Trump Kennedy Center is restored as a national cultural landmark for all Americans to enjoy.”
The full title of the venue was to be The Donald J Trump and John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.
Under District Judge Christopher Cooper’s order, the name will revert to the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, as it was christened when it first opened in 1971 in memory of the US president who was assassinated in 1963.
“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” Cooper, an Obama-era appointee, wrote in a 94-page opinion.
“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.” (BBC News)
