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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...

Oil price falls back to pre-Iran war levels

The price of oil has fallen to levels not seen since before the Iran war as traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz shipping...
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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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UWI students debate AI’s value

University students from across the region took their seats in the Parliament Chamber this week as the University of the West Indies (UWI) STAT...

Robert Mueller, ex-FBI chief who led Trump-Russia investigation, dies at 81

Robert Mueller, the former special counsel whose investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election defined much of Donald Trump's first term...

Gun court ‘can do only so much’

Professional social worker Fabian Sargeant is warning that Barbados will not solve its crime problem unless greater emphasis is placed on prevention, particularly addressing...

Police probe over 90 cases of passport fraud amid election concerns

The Bahamas has referred 98 suspected passport fraud cases to police as part of efforts to crack down on irregularities. According Chief Passport Officer Nicholas...

Eight SOEs financial ‘red flags’

Experts in the Ministry of Finance are raising a fiscal red flag on eight cash-strapped state-owned enterprises (SOEs), warning that they are likely to...

Shaw’s record hat-trick moves City closer to WSL title

 Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw scored a superb first half hat-trick as Manchester City inched closer to the Women’s Super League (WSL) title with a 5-2...

Murderer to serve 38 years

A calculated and cold killing which deserved a punitive and deterrent sentence. That was how Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell described Shakira Carlann Blackman’s murder of Shanice...

Straughn: An investment in creative sector

Government is defending a staggering overrun of an originally approved $4 million for CARIFESTA XV to an additional $31.7 million revealed in the House of Assembly...

When water flows, equality grows

Have you ever thought about the link between water and gender? It has probably never crossed your mind, yet every day that link is...

BTS make live return in front of huge crowd

Fans poured into the historic heart of South Korea's capital for the return of the world's most successful band in recent years, BTS. According to...