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BSIL head: Recent delays troubling

Barbados’ sugar industry has suffered a dramatic decline in production this year, with the island recording a crop approximately 30 000 tonnes lower than...

PM Mottley meets UK Prime Minister during London Climate Action Week

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley met with United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street today, where the two leaders discussed...

BUT: Public schools have resource edge

Comparisons between public and private schools based on Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE) results are unfair, says president of the Barbados Union of...

Drug trafficker set to learn fate

His attorney believes that Colis Arlington Paul should not get another day in prison after being on remand for more than five years. However, the...
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Ishmael wants food industry to help solve NCD crisis

Barbados has the size to solve its own health crisis of noncommunicable diseases, and the food industry is being called on to help make...

Drug trafficker set to learn fate

His attorney believes that Colis Arlington Paul should not get another day in prison after being on remand for more than five years. However, the...

MP tells of bank account blues

Government backbencher Dr William Duguid has complained that it takes too long to open a bank account in Barbados. He is suggesting that a colloquium...

Major blow to West Indies as Shai Hope ruled out with injury

Shai Hope has been ruled out of the first Test match for West Indies against Sri Lanka at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in...

Barbados launches new climate finance initiative with OPEC Fund

Barbados has partnered with the OPEC Fund for International Development to launch the Vulnerability to Viability (V2V) Compact, a new initiative aimed at helping...

IMF $128m in the bag

NCF partners with Shakirah Bourne to bring Bajan Anansi tales into schools

The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) has partnered with Barbadian author Shakirah Bourne to publish Bajan Anansi, a new collection of Anansi tales that will...
 

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Pedestrian dies in St Lucy crash

A pedestrian succumbed to injuries at the scene after being involved in a collision with a vehicle around 7:25 p.m. Tuesday along Alleynedale Road,...

BICO reports modest loss

Local Ice Cream Manufacturer BICO Limited is reporting a financial loss despite growing its revenue over the past year. This is due to persistently high...

Gale returns to national duty

Wide forward Thierry Gale is returning to the Barbados football team set-up for the first time in two years as part of a 17-member...

Still no sign of two missing fishermen

After their disappearance at sea more than a week ago, the fate of missing fishermen Zhicai Su and Othneil Harewood remains uncertain. They ventured out...

Philippines declares national energy emergency over war in Iran

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines has declared a national energy emergency over the threat posed by the US-Israel war with Iran to its supply...

Grandfather to serve just over two years

The grandfather who coldly confessed to killing his 12-year-old granddaughter and rolling her body into a gully in Jackson, St Michael, 24 years ago,...

Calvin Hope stands up for BCA members over CWI decision to “snub” Kensington Oval

President of the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) Calvin Hope has responded to to Cricket West Indies (CWI). Hope spoke on Tuesday morning during a...

Man fined $4,000 for cannabis offences

Jevon Shakur Audain, 29, of Green Park Lane, St. Michael, has been fined after pleading guilty to a series of drug-related offences. Audain appeared before...

Police seek stolen vehicle taken from Brandons Beach

Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a vehicle stolen from Brandons Beach on Monday night. The Barbados Police Service said the motor...

Man killed in Station Hill shooting identified

Jeff Omar Clarke, 36, of Goddings Road, Station Hill, St. Michael, has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting on Monday...