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Low-key return from Games

Several Barbadian athletes who competed at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, are back on home soil. They arrived home yesterday afternoon in two batches...
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Accused’s pleas fail to help him

Loud protestations and a change of plea when he learnt he was being sent to Dodds Prison made no difference to where Neverlaine Rohan...
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COVID-19 update for results on August 8

Health authorities reported on Tuesday that three men died from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) the weekend, and another 608 people tested positive for the...
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Koertzen dies in car crash

Cape Town – Former international cricket umpire Rudi Koertzen died on Tuesday in a vehicle collision in his native South Africa, his family said. Koertzen,...
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OAS blames international community for security crisis in Haiti

Washington, D.C. – The Organisation of American States (OAS) is pleading for urgency to continue working to increase security in Haiti and to begin...
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Best and Gooding top Common Entrance Exam

Renelle Best and Azario Gooding are the top performers in the 2022 Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination. Best, who is the overall top student and...
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Serena announces upcoming retirement from tennis

Toronto – Serena Williams said on Tuesday that she is “evolving away from tennis” and detailed her upcoming retirement from the sport that she...
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Serena Williams ends singles losing streak

Serena Williams claimed her first singles win in 14 months as she beat Spain's Nuria Parrizas Diaz to reach the second round of the...
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Jamaica spent millions on Commonwealth bid

KINGSTON – The Jamaica government has confirmed that it spent an estimated J$18.2 million in the failed campaign to get Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina...
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FBI raids Trump’s Florida home

Ex-US President Donald Trump has said his Florida home was "raided" by the FBI, and that agents broke open a safe. Trump said in a...
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Deadly flooding in Seoul

At least eight people have died and 14 others have been injured as flooding caused by torrential rain hit parts of South Korea's capital...
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Three men die from COVID

Three men have been added to the tally of COVID-19 deaths. Two of them, aged 88 and 91, died on Friday, August 5, while another...
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