Deadly afternoon in St Michael: Two shootings, one man dead
Two shootings just ten minutes apart rocked St Michael on Monday afternoon, leaving one man dead andTwo shootings just ten minutes apart rocked St Michael on Monday afternoon, leaving one man dead and another injured as police launch investigations into the back-to-back attacks. The first incident unfolded around 4:20 p.m. in The Ivy, where […]
Sugar workers voice alarm over equipment failures, ‘broken promises’
Union leaders have accused the cooperative now running the island’s lone sugar mill of strong-arm tactics after the company ordered factory staff to return revised employment contracts by Monday, despite ongoing disputes over pay, hours and representation. The Sugar Industries Staff Association (SISA) has charged that the Barbados Energy and Sugar Company Ltd (BESCO) […]
Celtics overwhelm Lakers, Bulls survive Cavs
The Co-operators General Insurance Premier League Playoffs was full of excitement on Sunday night at the Barbados Community College (BCC), as the 246 Mobile Shop City United Celtics overwhelmed the Island Care Ambulance Service & BodyxB Lakers 101-69 in Game 1 of their best-of-three semifinal. Earlier, the Burger King Clapham Bulls held off a […]
Windies Women’s ICC World Cup hopes in jeopardy
The West Indies Women are in serious jeopardy of missing the 2025 ICC Women’s World Cup after slumping to their second defeat in three matches, going down by 65 runs to Pakistan Women in their World Cup Qualifier match here on Monday. West Indies Women did well to restrict the home side to 191 […]
UN, Japan back $6M project to rebuild post-hurricane fisheries
A US$2.93 million (BDS$5.92 million) coastal fisheries resilience project, backed by the United Nations and Japan, was launched on Monday to help the island’s fishing industry recover from the widespread devastation of the fishing fleet caused by Hurricane Beryl in 2024. The project is being implemented through a partnership between the Ministry of the Blue […]
Teachers demand urgent tech investment in schools, warn of ‘national crisis’
Barbados faces a “national crisis” in its schools, with teachers’ leaders warning that chronic underinvestment in technology, rising violence and unresolved staff grievances are undermining education reform and threatening the future of the island’s children. Speaking at the Barbados Union of Teachers’ (BUT) 51st annual general conference on Monday, held at the Radisson Aquatica Resort, […]
Ministers urge parents to act as youth violence rises
Two Christ Church parliamentarians on Sunday called on parents across Barbados to take greater responsibility for their children’s actions, warning that a failure to intervene is fuelling a surge in youth crime and gun violence following the recent fatal shooting of an area teenager. Adrian Forde, the MP for Christ Church West Central and MP […]
Let’s not wait for measles to knock on our door
Barbados is in an enviable position: free of measles. But that status is not guaranteed. As cases of measles begin to re-emerge across parts of the globe — and closer to home in the Americas — we must not take that disease-free status for granted. Measles, once all but eliminated in many regions due to […]
EBC officers conducting verification of addresses exercise
The public is advised that Registering Officers from the Electoral and Boundaries Commission (EBC) are in the field conducting a verification exercise to confirm the address of each registrant. This activity is in accordance with the Representation of the People Act Cap 12, Section 12. EBC Registering Officers will be wearing the department’s branded […]
One dead, another injured in separate St Michael shootings
Police are investigating two shootings that occurred within minutes of each other in St Michael on Monday afternoon, leaving one man dead and another injured. The first incident took place around 4:20 p.m. in the Ivy, where a man—who has not yet been identified—was socialising outside a residence when two masked men approached and opened […]