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Disruption of natural gas services
The National Petroleum Corporation has confirmed that the current disruption of natural gas serviceswas caused by a valve which malfunctioned in the closed position.
This is according to Chief of Operations Andrea Burnett-Edward. This issue has resulted in the loss of service to some customers and businesses.
It is...
Shaquille is People’s Monarch
Shaquille is the 2025 Flow Starcom Network People’s Monarch.
With 60 per cent of the vote, his popular song Asphalt beat Quon and Doejay’s Bartender.
Shaquille was reduced to tears during the announcement, while his supporters celebrated under the tent at Starcom Network at River Road.
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Plenty of highs at Rise
Despite calls for a boycott, Rise Barbados did not fall.
Rather, the artistes stood tall to ensure that the patrons who went to Kensington Oval on Wednesday night got their money’s worth.
Without a doubt, Kes The Band was one of the shining acts of the night.
The band is celebrating its...
Ex-Children’s Authority chairman on sex charges involving minor
PORT OF SPAIN – The former chairman of the Children’s Authority, Hanif Benjamin, will return to court on January 16 next year after he was placed on TT$170 000 (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) bail after he was slapped with sex charges involving a minor.
Benjamin, a clinical and forensic traumatologist...
Traffic changes for Bridgetown Craft Market
On Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd August, 2025, the National Cultural Foundation will present the annual Bridgetown Craft Market to be held on The Mighty Grynner Highway.
Road closure:
On the days of the event, between 2 p.m. and 11 p.m., The Mighty Grynner Highway from its junction with Holborn Circle...
Traffic changes for Foreday Morning Jam
On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, Foreday Morning Jam will take place commencing from Queen’s Park, Probyn Street/Independence Square and Barbados Investment & Development Corporation (BIDC) car park in St Michael, and will proceed along the route.As a result of this event, there will be a number of traffic changes...
Emancipation Day celebrations come alive
The JTC Ramsay Circle, better known as the Bussa Roundabout, again came alive during the 2025 Emancipation celebrations.
Delays and showers could not halt the celebrations, which included words for thought as well as dancing, drumming. There were also vehicular tributes and a demonstration of go kart racing which is...
Elderly man dies after falling from ackee tree
Emancipation Day celebrations were marred by the death of 71-year-old Arthur Barrow of Chapel Gap, St Barnabas, St Michael.
As Barbados celebrated freedom with drums and chants at the nearby Emancipation Statue, better known as the Bussa statue, Barrow's friends and family were left in disbelief after discovering he had...
CHARGED: Jamar Kareem Ramsay
A Christ Church man is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow to answer charges of handling stolen property.
Jamar Kareem Ramsay, 33 years of Brownes Gap, Sargeant's Village, was charged with handling stolen property belonging to Rico Depeiza. The offence is alleged to have taken place between December 5, 2024...
Barbados ‘likely’ to feel fallout from rising inflation
Inflation has increased in the United States (US) and Central Bank Governor Dr Kevin Greenidge believes that based on Barbados’ fixed exchange rate and its reliance on the US market, this could negatively impact prices in the coming months.
In the Central Bank’s half-year economic review, released last Friday, Greenidge...
Trump hits more countries with steep tariffs
ZURICH/WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump's latest wave of tariffs on exports from dozens of trading partners sent global stock markets tumbling on Friday and countries and companies scrambling to seek ways to strike better deals.
As Trump presses ahead with plans to reorder the global economy with the highest tariff rates since the...
Farmers fed up
Farmers fed up with thieves raiding their fields and livestock have been warned not to commit a crime to stop a crime.
The caution has came Acting Superintendent of the Barbados Police Service Anthony Warner during a forum on praedial larceny hosted by the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) yesterday at...