Lawyer denies drug charges, co-accused pleads guilty
Attorney-at-law George Adolphus Bennett appeared before the High Court on Thursday and denied several charges including drugs. However, his co-accused, Guyanese national Dharma Rudradeo who is on remand at Dodds, pleaded guilty to possession of 252.59 kilogrammes of cannabis on July 30, 2021 and having possession with intent to traffic the illicit substance. […]
Jury convicts Christ Church man of murder
It took an 11-member jury just over an hour of deliberation to find Raheem Travonte Barnett guilty of murder. The jurors delivered the unanimous verdict around 3:11 p.m. on Thursday before Madam Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell in the No. 4 Supreme Court. Barnett, of Regency Park, Christ Church, had pleaded not guilty to murdering […]
UWI Cave Hill’s Innovate drives cutting-edge solutions to market
As the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill continues to celebrate a game-changing development of gas from seaweed and waste and its first-ever patent, its principal is touting the university’s position as a regional leader in innovation and entrepreneurship, with its Innovate 2024 competition showcasing groundbreaking research aimed at tackling pressing Caribbean issues. […]
Unions urged to evolve or risk irrelevance
Trade unions must adapt to the changing global labour landscape or face becoming irrelevant, leaders warned on Thursday. The call for evolution emerged as a central theme at the 15th Biennial Delegates Conference of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB). In his keynote speech, Chris de Caires, chairman […]
Steps being taken to grow cage cricket locally
Cage cricket has been played in Barbados since 2013, but growth has been relatively slow. That may be about to change as local organisers are plotting to get the sport into more schools, and into the community. Discussions are ongoing to partner with the Republic bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and to get the sport […]
Young motorcyclist is latest road fatality
A 22-year-old man lost his life in a motorcycle accident on Maxwell Main Road, Christ Church, in the early hours of Thursday morning. Renaldo Elon Daniel of Rollins Road, Christ Church, died after losing control of his motorcycle at approximately 12:57 a.m. while travelling westward toward Top Rock. Police said Daniel was thrown […]
Greenfield mourns pedestrian killed in crash
The tight-knit community of Greenfield, The City has been left reeling from the news that 72-year-old Winfield Welch, known affectionately as Klim to his neighbours, died after being struck by two vehicles on Wednesday night. Welch was reportedly crossing the street at Salters Road, St George from his workplace, a poultry farm, when he […]
New body tasked with offering solutions to gun violence
In the wake of a troubling rise in gun violence, Prime Minister Mia Mottley has announced the immediate establishment of a National Advisory Council on Citizen Security. Among the matters the Professor Velma Newton-chaired council will advise on are anti-gang legislation and a gun amnesty. The creation of the council, which will be tasked with […]
The bigger the liar, the more the believers
In Adolf Hitler’s 99-year-old Mein Kampf, he claimed that a lie, if told convincingly and repeatedly, can be accepted as truth. The man who would later orchestrate the murder of six million Jews and wage war against 1.6 billion people believed that effective propaganda must be simple, emotional, and repetitive to manipulate public perception and […]
Barbados boosted by back-to-back Nations League wins in September
Barbados enjoyed the fourth biggest move in the North, Central America, and the Caribbean (Concacaf) region, in terms of points added during the September window, when FIFA released the latest Coca Cola Men’s World Ranking on Wednesday. The world governing body had issued its previous ranking of national teams in July. 184 international matches were […]