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Explosion at Aquatic Centre

Fire officials and ambulance personnel are on the scene of an explosion at the Aquatic Centre, Wildey, St Michael. A number of loud explosions were...

Government planning dedicated school bus fleet

Government preparing to establish a dedicated school bus fleet. During a media conference at the Ministry of Transport and Works' temporary headquarters in The Goddard...

Four primary schools to undergo major upgrades

Four primary schools will undergo major infrastructural upgrades as the Ministry of Education Transformation begins the first phase of its school transformation programme this...

Fairchild Street stabbing victim identified

The man who died after being stabbed near the Vendors Market on Fairchild Street, St Michael, on Wednesday morning has been identified as 42-year-old...
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‘Long way to go in health battle’

It will be a long, hard fight against Barbados’ culture of abusing sugar and salt, but the Heart and Stroke Foundation says it is...

Woman denies uttering false ID card

When she appeared before Magistrate Ketha Ellis in the District “B” Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, Monique Annmarie McLean, of Beckwith Street, The City, denied...

New DLP general secretary aims to unify party

The Democratic Labour Party continues to hold out an olive branch to former members in an effort to get them to return to the...

‘D’ big battle

Tridents ready for CPL home opener

Tridents men and women hard at training as home matches start Saturday Barbados Tridents men’s and women’s team have intensified their preparations for the upcoming...

Tridents battered

Nurse aces through to 16

CPL tickets far from sold out

Equity financing ‘a viable option’

Economist Professor Winston Moore is advising businesses and entrepreneurs concerned about the cost of capital to consider equity financing, where they access funding by...

COB suspends CEO

Eye on financial sector links

More support needed for breastfeeding mothers

The following is a submission by Aaliyah Lara, a member of Healthy Caribbean Youth from Trinidad and Tobago and a medical student at the...
 

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Oil prices hit $100 for the first time since May

Oil prices hit $100 a barrel for the first time since May as the escalating conflict in the Middle East reignited fears over global...

NCF announces Pic O De Crop refunds

The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) has announced refund arrangements for patrons who have already purchased tickets for the Courtesy Garage Pic O De Crop Finals which...

Home-made gun costs youth $10 000

You don't even want to see a picture of a firearm. Those were the last words from Justice Pamela Beckles to first-time gun offender Brandon...

Death toll in Guyana ferry tragedy climbs as regional recovery effort expands

 Search, rescue and recovery operations following the capsizing of the MV Barima have intensified with the arrival of maritime assets and personnel from the...

Crackdown at housing project

Government officials yesterday descended on a National Housing Corporation (NHC) contracted housing project in Brighton, St George, ordering the immediate removal of migrant workers...

MISSING: Richard Rudolph Cumberbatch

A 53-year-old St Thomas man was reported missing, last seen around 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Ayshford resident Richard Rudolph Cumberbatch was at the time wearing...

Estate residents say they’re being left out of $18m project

Some residents of the historic Codrington Estate in St John are feeling shut out of a multimillion-dollar reparations project they say is meant to...

Son of Obadele Thompson secures spot at World Athletics U-20 Championships

Twenty-six years after Obadele Thompson stood on an Olympic podium in Sydney, the Thompson name is going global in ultramarine, gold and black once...

Pic-O-De-Crop Finals now at CARIFESTA House

The 2026 Courtesy Garage Pic-O-De-Crop Finals, powered by Q100.7 FM, will now be staged at CARIFESTA House, Waterford, St Michael, on Friday, July 31. The...

France to ban under-15s from social media

France's parliament has approved a law to ban social media for under-15s from January 2027, making it the first European country to block young...