Barbados News

(Barbados Nation) There has been a breakthrough in debt restructuring negotiations between Government and the Barbados External Creditor Committee, which represents foreign bondholders.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados-based Elegant Hotels Group is being acquired by well-known global hotel group Marriott International in an “all cash offer” worth about $260.2 million.

(Barbados Nation) A St Michael man is dead following a shooting incident at Golden Rock, The Pine on Saturday night.

(Barbados Nation) The Psychiatric Hospital is seeing an increase in new admissions, as well as young people utilising mental health services.

(Barbados Nation) Yet another family and community is in mourning following gun violence.

(Barbados Nation) Almost three months after being shot in the back of the head, a Christ Church man is reported to have succumbed to his injuries.

(Barbados GIS) The Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) has been illuminated pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

(Barbados Nation) Shakera Yearwood left Barbados when she was just 24 years old and headed to a land far away from home, Dubai.

(Barbados Nation) Starting today, the Barbados Water Authority will be rationing water and diverting it to other areas, especially parishes to the north and east that are most in need.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has produced only 7 800 tonnes of sugar from about 93 600 tonnes of cane this year, one of the most disappointing harvests in the last decade.

(Barbados Nation) The Ministry of Health and Wellness has warned Barbadians about the dangers of vaping, particularly on the heels of reports of an outbreak of severe respiratory illnesses associated with the practice in the United States.

(Barbados Nation) Police have charged two men with the murder of 22-year-old Rahim Ward.

(Barbados Nation) At least one Barbadian living in The Bahamas who was reported on social media as missing, is alive and well today.

(Barbados Nation) Make that two CEOs Government has parted ways with in the last fortnight.

(Barbados Nation) A school day finds Sybil Leacock in the classroom doing what she has been doing for the last 72 years – teaching.

(Barbados Nation) Miss Universe Barbados 2019 is Shanel Ifill. The statuesque beauty was crowned moments ago before a packed house at the Barbados Hilton Resort, Needhams Points, St Michael.

(Barbados Nation) A major step has been taken towards having a medical marijuana industry in Barbados with the piloting of the Medicinal Cannabis Industry Bill 2019 in the House of Assembly on Friday.

(Barbados Nation) A mother’s worst fear was realised today.   Barbara Dorant-Layne broke down after identifying the body taken from a shallow grave at Walkers, St Andrew, this afternoon as that of her son Rahim Ward.

(Barbados Nation) On Thursday, Jason Renaldo Ashton declared his head was hot and that was why he told a man “what I had to tell him”.

(Barbados Nation) More than a year after a legal fight began over a $5 bank fee, the matter is yet to be heard by the Fair Trading Commission (FTC).