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No immediate rise in bills

Utility regulators have approved a Barbados Light & Power Company Limited (BLPC) application to recover the cost of investment in some new equipment, but...

Court reprimands father who left son on Mount Fuji

A father has been reprimanded by police after leaving his son on Japan’s highest mountain for several hours with just a soft drink and...

St Lucia staging national exhibit for underwater sculpture park

Castries – St Lucia is set to unveil its first National Exhibition for the development of one out of three Underwater Sculpture Parks, offering...

Matthew Forde to the fore with five-for in Kings’ victory over Kingsmen

Matthew Forde delivered the best bowling display of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) so far this season as he singlehandedly wrecked the...
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Officials: Take extra care against measles

Barbados is being urged to tighten its defences against measles as the Americas confront their worst outbreak of the highly contagious disease in more...

Man charged after 13.6kg of cannabis seized

A 27-year-old Christ Church man has been charged with trafficking and importing cannabis after police seized 13.6 kilograms of the drug with an estimated...

Nicholls touts law’s value to national security

There is no need to fear that a law seeking to collect information on travellers will criminalise anyone. The proposed law, said Minister of Home...

Matthew Forde to the fore with five-for in Kings’ victory over Kingsmen

Matthew Forde delivered the best bowling display of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) so far this season as he singlehandedly wrecked the...

All eyes on Bulldoze

BCA hails Matthews, Greaves

‘70% of workers disengaged’

Barbados could be losing $1.6 billion a year to disengagement and lost productivity in the workplace. That is the “conservative” estimate of new research by...

Bajans deeper in debt

Mortgages rule loans sector

Quinn embracing future with AI

He translated poor science grades through the “grind” of his renewed determination to become a data and artificial intelligence (AI) specialist. Though veterinary medicine caught...
 

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Windies hope to leave India on Friday after Sammy appeals for “help”

West Indies head coach Daren Sammy on Thursday sent a series of screaming social media messages, begging to go home as his team remained...

Justice systems ‘failing women worldwide’

As the world prepares to mark International Women’s Day 2026 on Sunday, a senior UN Women official is warning that women and girls are...

Digital course empowering senior citizens

Elderly graduates of a basic computer class will get follow-up courses to help them avoid being scammed. Marilyn Rice-Bowen, president of the Barbados Association of...

Barbados calls for restraint as Middle East tensions intensify

The Government of Barbados is calling for maximum restraint from all parties as tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East. A statement issued through...

Traffic changes for Sandy Lane Gold Cup

The Barbados Police Service (TBPS) wishes to inform the general public that due to the Sandy Lane Gold Cup 2026 being held at the...

Providence schools launch inaugural career showcase

Students at Providence Elementary and Secondary Schools were treated to an eye-opening glimpse into the world of work yesterday, as the institution held an...

Poet Yearwood steals the show

by John Sealy Twenty-eight-year-old spoken word poet Mark Yearwood emerged standing tall when the curtain came down on the second annual PoeTree Barbados Bus Ah...

Mother and doctors found guilty of killing newborn in South Korea

A South Korean court has convicted a woman and her two doctors of murder for killing the baby she had delivered. The woman wanted to...

Guyanese extradited to US on fraud related charges

GEORGETOWN – The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC, says Guyanese-born, Ronley Floyd Bynoe, has been extradited to the United States on...

Businessman awarded default judgment in vaccine case

The international lawsuit involving US$10 million fraud against Barbadian businessman Mark Maloney has finally come to a close. On February 27, the United States District...