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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...

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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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FBI investigates racist text messages sent to black people across US

Authorities are investigating racist text messages sent to black Americans across the country telling them to report to a plantation "to pick cotton". Black Americans,...

Three charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction star Liam Payne, Argentinian authorities have said. The singer died on 16...

Police seeking public’s assistance in locating wanted man

The Barbados Police Service is calling on the public for assistance in locating 39-year-old Shane Daniel Jeremiah Polin, who is wanted for questioning in...

Missing: 12-year-old Jenique Brianna Anderson

Authorities are requesting the public’s assistance in locating 12-year-old Jenique Brianna Anderson of Half Moon Fort, St. Lucy. She was last seen at approximately...

‘Not all fisherfolk eligible’ for payment

The Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification, Green and Blue Economy has paid out in excess of $1.5 million to fisherfolk whose livelihoods...

Repeat call for answers on gas prices

While Barbados has not had any movement on petroleum prices for over a year, it ranks No. 5 among the most expensive gasoline prices...

No guarantees Trump will give Netanyahu all he wants

The bar facing the US embassy building in central Jerusalem is called Deja Bu - a witty reference to something you’ve drunk before. And outside...

CWI announces suspension of Alzarri Joseph for two matches

Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph has been handed a two-match suspension by Cricket West Indies (CWI) following an on-field incident during the 3rd CG United...

Police investigating shooting incident in St. Philip

Authorities in the Southern Division are conducting an investigation following a shooting incident that unfolded on Thursday afternoon in Farm Road, St. Philip. The...

US central bank boss says Trump can’t fire him

The head of the US central bank has hit back at speculation that his post might be in jeopardy as Donald Trump prepares to...