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Mottley: Barbados will continue to seek reparatory justice

Barbadians will soon be able to pursue postgraduate studies that place emphasis on reparations. As part of her statement on Emancipation Day today, Prime Minister...

Sada Williams wins Commonwealth silver

Sada Williams delivered Barbados’ first medal of the Commonwealth Games, with a hard-fought silver in the women’s 400 metres in Glasgow, Scotland, earlier today. The...

All-day Emancipation celebrations

This year's Emancipation celebration began with a drum call, dance and fire breathing. From around 8:15 a.m., the four groups converged at JTC Ramsay Circle,...

AC rides “Legends” to calypso crown

Adrian “AC” Clarke is the new calypso monarch of Barbados. AC won his fourth title with 330 points, performing the immensely popular Legends From The...
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CG ups support for blood collection

Almost two months after launching its Fuelling Hope Blood Drive, CG United has expanded its support for the National Blood Collecting Centre, reinforcing efforts...

Man was ’keeping firearm for old lady’

He was doing an old lady a favour by keeping her gun and he forgot he had it in his safe. This was the explanation...

Bill puts light on business owners

Government is seeking to tighten oversight of companies operating in Barbados through new legislation designed to expose the real owners behind businesses, strengthen corporate...

Sada Williams wins Commonwealth silver

Sada Williams delivered Barbados’ first medal of the Commonwealth Games, with a hard-fought silver in the women’s 400 metres in Glasgow, Scotland, earlier today. The...

Economic growth slows for Barbados

Barbados’ economy has now expanded for 21 consecutive quarters. However, with international uncertainty – especially the war in the Middle East taking a toll –...

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Centenarian’s life ‘a blessing’

It is not usual to find a centenarian still be married, but Esther Lilian Wickham certainly is. At their Cadogan Road, Grazettes, St Michael home...
 

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Govt Arch Cot settlement

Eighteen years after the tragic Shalom Apartment building collapse at Arch Cot, Brittons Hill, St Michael, which claimed the lives of a family of...

Trinis edge Bajans 2-1

Barbados shone at times at the Wildey Turf yesterday, but it wasn’t enough to secure another victory in the Junior Pan Am Challenge hockey...

$1.7m for Prime Minister’s Cup

The Ministry of Youth Sport and Community Empowerment dispensed $1.7 million in support of the Prime Minister’s Cup football tournament last year.  Minister in the...

Murder accused cries police abuse

Romel Hose Marville said that he was beaten so severely in police custody that at one point he stooled himself, peed himself and another...

Sabga Hails Mottley’s Leadership as Term Finance Expands Again

Oliver Sabga, Chief Executive Officer of Term Finance, has doubled down on his company’s commitment to Barbados. He praises Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s administration's...

Police investigating unnatural death in Brittons Hill

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the unnatural death of a man whose body was discovered on Tuesday night in Brittons Hill, St. Michael. Officers...

Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in...

NIS ‘treated like sacrificial lamb’

Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne says the National Insurance is leaking funds in the debt swap arrangement. “That it has not been as advantageous to the...

BFA mourns the loss of Jabez ‘Jack’ Bovell

The Barbados Football Association (BFA) is mourning the passing of Jabez ‘Jack’ Bovell, a long-serving football administrator and Director of the Barbados Soccer Academy. Bovell,...

King Charles III commemorates Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy with tree planting

On Tuesday, His Majesty King Charles III planted an Acer rubrum ‘October Glory’ tree in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, marking the completion of...