Music legend Sheppard teams up with major labels for cricket anthem

Soca star Alan Sheppard has joined forces with international music giants for the release of his new single One More, an infectious anthem set to be the soundtrack for cricket fans during the T20 World Cup. In a major label deal, Sheppard has collaborated with Barbados’ CRS Music and Media Ltd, American-based music distributor The […]

Vauxhall man convicted of killing cousin in new year’s day quarrel

Renaldo Stevenson Kirkley Carter shot cousin Jason to death over breakfast on New Year’s Day nine years ago, a High Court jury found late Tuesday. In a nine-to-three majority verdict, the 12-member jury in the No. 5 Supreme Court found him guilty of manslaughter, after failing to reach a unanimous decision as to whether he […]

‘No scuffle before stabbing’

There was no exchange of words, no argument and no scuffle between two Branchbury, St Joseph friends on the morning one stabbed the other in the chest, the No. 5 Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. “All I saw was a blade,” Jelani Layne said as he told the jury his former friend Shakeem Ryan Dawson […]

CJ, in new system to tackle case backlog, reaches out to Bar

The new Chief Justice of Barbados, 27 days on the job and grappling with a mounting backlog of court cases, has implemented a plan for the more efficient management of outstanding cases, his spokesman has told Barbados TODAY. The system involves the head of the judiciary reaching out to the Bar and its clients regarding […]

Flights, passengers in ‘unprecedented surge’, says BHTA

Barbados is experiencing an unprecedented surge in airlift capacity, marking a pivotal moment for tourism, Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA), Renee Coppin has reported.  Coppin was delivering her final remarks as chairman during the BHTA’s annual general meeting on Monday, where she unveiled a series of significant developments.  Despite the imminent […]

Death in daylight Gall Hill shooting, four others injured

The routine noise of traffic at the busy Gall Hill, Christ Church junction was shattered by gunshots just before 9.30 a.m., sending residents and people doing business at the nearby offices, shops and in the Aberdeen Jones Centre and Market scampering. In that brief moment, Zakhir Avion Goodridge, 19, from Crescent Hill, Gall Hill, was […]

Improving the delivery of justice

The slow pace of Barbados’ judicial system has been under heavy criticism with particular focus on the enormous backlogs in both the criminal and civil courts. Back in 2021, a member of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Justice Denys Barrow issued a scathing rebuke of the island’s justice system which is marked by inordinate […]

Rutherford powers Windies to Super 8s of T20 World Cup

Sherfane Rutherford hit a sublime unbeaten 68 as West Indies fought back to beat New Zealand by 13 runs to book their place in the T20 World Cup Super 8s. The co-hosts were in trouble at 22-4 when Rutherford came to the crease and continued to struggle for much of the innings, slumping to 30-5 […]