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Officials contain QEH fire
Fire officials have responded and contained a fire that broke out in the electrical room of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) around 2:05 p.m. Tuesday.
As a precaution, a few departments near the back entrance of the hospital were evacuated. Electricity across the hospital plant has not been affected, and...
Two low-pressure systems to bring choppy seas
Choppy sea conditions, mainly along the northern and western coastlines of Barbados, are currently forecast from as early as Thursday.
These conditions are predicted to peak over this weekend with some improvement from Monday into Tuesday, says the Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS).
This deterioration of sea conditions will be a result...
Man found guilty of wounding woman
A St Philip man has been found guilty of unlawfully wounding a woman three years ago after, she said, she refused his sexual advances.
Shurland Orlando Davis, 53, of Brereton Village, was on trial in Supreme Court No. 3A accused of unlawfully wounding Althea Burke with intent to do her...
Governor’s pitch for Barbados
Now is the time to invest in Barbados, Central Bank Governor Dr Kevin Greenidge boasted to financiers at the Intra-African Free Trade 2023 yesterday.
He is part of a delegation attending the week-long trade exhibition, the continent’s largest trade and investment fair and networking event focused on solidifying the Intra-African...
St Philip lift U-21 parish title
Derica Haynes played a superb goal attack role to lift St Philip Blazers to a remarkable 26-21 victory over St George and take the title when the inaugural Barbados Netball Association’s Under-21 Parish Community Netball Tournament climaxed on Sunday night at the Wildey Gymnasium.
In a battle between the two...
IMF thumbs-up
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) staff mission to Barbados has given the country’s economic recovery efforts another passing grade.
It paves the way for the IMF’s executive board to approve the disbursement of US$75 million to Government next month.
While noting that the economy “has recovered strongly, with ten consecutive quarters...
Artistes rise to the occasion
Rise reggae gave thousands of people so much to rave about after a night of riveting reggae music and riddims at Kensington Oval on Saturday.
The jampacked crowd listened to the reggae hits with rapture as artistes such as Barrington Levy, Tarrus Riley, Biggie Irie, Gramps Morgan with Dean Fraser,...
Trump’s sister passes on at 86
Maryanne Trump Barry, the eldest sister of ex-President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 86, United States (US) media reports.
She was found dead at about 04:00 EST (09:00 GMT) on Monday morning in her New York City apartment, according to ABC News. Her cause of death has...
Attorneys staging protest
A number of attorneys are at this hour staging a peaceful protest outside the Henry Forde and David Simmons Legal and Judicial Complex.
They are protesting what they see as a lack of respect by authorities and being refused parking in the same complex.
Cameron returns to Cabinet as new foreign secretary
When David Cameron quit Downing Street in the wake of the Brexit referendum in 2016, he quipped that he had been the future once.
It was an ironic reference to a joke he himself had made about then-Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2005, shortly after taking over as Conservative leader.
But...
Extreme factors
The drought-like conditions and now the consistently heavy rainfall have been causing some farmers to come up a little short on certain crops.
That’s why it’s likely that the price of some local fruits and vegetables will increase.
Vice-president of the Barbados Association of Retailers, Vendors and Entrepreneurs (BARVEN), Erskine Forde,...
‘No chicken, egg shortage’
Chicken and egg lovers should not have any problems satisfying their appetites over the Yuletide season.
This assurance has come from both president of the Barbados Egg and Poultry Producers’ Association Stephen Layne and chief executive officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society James Paul.
Last month, two supermarket owners – Audley...