Police identify victim in fatal stabbing
The man who was fatally stabbed in Kings Street, St Michael on Thursday morning has been identified as 56-year-old Herbert Ronald Roger Deare, of 4th Avenue Park Road, Bush Hall, St Michael. Deare was wounded during an altercation with another man around 6:45 a.m. He was transported to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital by private transport […]
CANOC president calls for climate action
The president of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) has praised the region’s resilience and called for action on climate change after the passage of Hurricane Beryl. Keith Joseph, who is also Secretary General of the St Vincent & the Grenadines National Olympic Committee, issued a statement on Thursday. “The path of destruction […]
CANOC president calls for climate action
The president of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) has praised the region’s resilience and called for action on climate change after the passage of Hurricane Beryl. Keith Joseph, who is also Secretary General of the St Vincent & the Grenadines National Olympic Committee, issued a statement on Thursday. “The path of destruction […]
World T20 champs feted in victory parade in Mumbai
NEW DELHI — India won the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on Saturday at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, and celebrations ensued back home. But the team’s return from the Caribbean was delayed because of a shutdown forced by Hurricane Beryl. The victorious squad finally landed in New Delhi early Thursday, after getting on a […]
World T20 champs feted in victory parade in Mumbai
NEW DELHI — India won the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on Saturday at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, and celebrations ensued back home. But the team’s return from the Caribbean was delayed because of a shutdown forced by Hurricane Beryl. The victorious squad finally landed in New Delhi early Thursday, after getting on a […]
Opposition-led parliamentary watchdog ‘to look into’ World Cup
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee will probe government spending for the just ended ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup, an opposition lawmaker vowed Thursday, declaring the event a failure that has raised questions of financial transparency. “The amount of money that has been spent is unjustifiable and unaccounted for. And we will get to the bottom […]
Wesley Hall Junior School remains closed
Sections of the Wesley Hall Junior School are still undergoing repairs, and the school will therefore remain closed on Friday, the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training said on Thursday night. It added that it looks forward to the completion of the works and will provide an update on reopening of the school in […]
DLP says hurricane-impacted fishermen, boat owners owed payment from govt
Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne has suggested the recent mass destruction of fishing boats at the Bridgetown Fisheries Complex raises legal questions surrounding the government’s role in ensuring the safety of the fishing community. “The government impliedly undertook that that would be literally a safe harbour. It was not,” the senior attorney told a media conference […]
Catamaran companies, others sending supplies to hurricane-ravaged SVG
Several local businesses have banded together to assist St Vincent’s Grenadine islands with relief supplies following the devastation caused by Hurricane Beryl earlier this week. The first vessel of supplies is expected to leave Barbados on Friday morning for Union Island and Mayreau to deliver specific items, said Chief Executive Officer of Foster & Ince […]
Plea against price rise amid fisheries losses
Fish processors have been urged not to raise the wholesale price to vendors after a leading spokesman for the fishing community estimated that Hurricane Beryl has destroyed 90 per cent of the island’s fleet. “We are asking them, ‘don’t juck out we eye’,” said Kemar Harris, chairman of the Fisheries Advisory Committee, as he issued […]