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Tridents battered

Dancing her way from Barbados to Germany

By Cheryl Harewood Jianna Fagon has reached a significant height in her career and is following her dream of making it big in the world...

New Customs regulations coming by October

New regulations are coming to govern how the Customs Department functions, including the implementation of new technologies and its relationship with the public. Minister of...

TRACED: Cuthbert Michael Beckles

Cuthbert Michael Beckles, 69, of Salters, St George, who was reported missing on Thursday, September 3rd, 2026, has been traced and is safe.

Fire destroys four houses in Chapman Lane

Four homes were destroyed today in an early morning fire at Chapman Lane, St Michael. Residents became aware of the blaze around 3 a.m., but...
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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...

Virtual court starts next month

Virtual hearings will be rolled out at two Magistrates’ Courts from next month, in what Minister of Legal Affairs and Criminal Justice Michael Lashley...

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 battered

Barbados Tridents were roughed up and left Warner Park bruised, battered and beaten by St Kitts and Nevis Patriots who produced a stunning batting...

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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US steps up Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire efforts

Efforts for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah have intensified, with a US envoy expected to return to Lebanon for talks over a possible...

Hockey stalwart Nichols passes on

The Godmother of Barbados’ hockey Andrea Nichols passed away yesterday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Nichols, 70, a former longstanding national women’s hockey goalkeeper and captain...

Businesses ‘not climate ready’

Businesses and other organisations in Barbados and the Caribbean are not taking climate-related risks seriously enough, despite the region’s high vulnerability to the negative...

Heart healthy fun on the road

Despite the overcast skies, rain and extended route, the participants of this year’s Nation Funathlon persevered to the end. Marketing executive with the Nation Group...

Son questions autopsy

The son of Albert John is calling for clarity on his father’s passing, as he questioned the post-mortem which ruled the death of the...

Elderly man loses gold in ‘scam’

An elderly man is warning Barbadians not to fall victim to people walking around proposing to buy their gold or swap it. Seventy-five year-old Jefferson...

Fogging Schedule: November 18 to 22

Districts in St. Peter, St. James and St. Michael will be fogged by the Vector Control Unit, next week. The team will start its weekly...

Barbados National Culinary Team to compete at Taste of the Caribbean 2024

Members of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association’s (BHTA) Barbados National Culinary Team left the island on Saturday to compete in the 2024 edition...

Flash-Flood Watch extended for the island

A flash-flood watch remains in effect for the island. The watch has been extended due to low-level convergence aided by a favourable upper-level pattern...

Karoline Leavitt to become youngest White House press secretary

Donald Trump has announced that he will appoint Karoline Leavitt, his campaign spokeswoman, to serve as White House press secretary in his next administration. At...