Barbados News

(Barbados Government Information Service) No major incidents, damage or injuries were reported across Barbados following the passage of Tropical Storm Dorian Monday night and early yesterday morning.

BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Dorian gathered strength today as it barreled west toward Barbados, where residents stocked up on food to hunker down for an onslaught of heavy wind and rain.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called on Barbadians to be their brother’s keeper as preparations take place for the passage of Tropical Storm Dorian.

(Barbados Nation) THE BARBADOS METEOROLOGICAL Services has issued a Tropical Storm Watch for Barbados.

(Barbados Nation) A 54-year-old ZR driver is the island’s latest murder victim.

(Barbados Nation) Today the Medicinal Cannabis Bill will be laid in Parliament.

(Barbados Nation) Two Colombians and a Romanian national two of whom were caught with fraudulent banking cards confessed to stealing money from various ATMs of Republic Bank when they appeared in the District “A” Magistrates Court earlier yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) The young mother and wife whose family died in the tragic fire of July 24 has broken her silence publicly forgiving her husband, opening up about having her ability to grieve taken away and touching on persistent rumours.

(Barbados Nation) Former Minister of Industry and Commerce Donville Inniss will be in court again tomorrow in the United States.

(Jamaica Observer) Approximately 10,000 costumed revellers in 23 bands braved intermittent showers and chipped through the streets of St Michael on the outskirts of the capital Bridgetown for Monday’s Grand Kadooment Day, the climax to Crop Over 2019.

(Barbados Nation) The merriment of the long Crop Over weekend had a pall cast over it when three people died yesterday within hours of each other – one in violent circumstances.

(Barbados Nation) The Court of Appeal today released former condemned murderer Omar DaCosta Holder from prison saying his case should not have gone to the jury in light of his unsigned written statement taken while he was in police custody.

(Barbados Nation) Visitors to Barbados for the last lap of Crop Over could find themselves waiting on the plane for longer than usual before they can disembark.

(Barbados Nation) Police are on the hunt for a man who barged into a house, choked a woman, doused her with a flammable substance and then set the house on fire yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) A six-member team will leave Barbados next month to start the recruitment of nurses in Ghana.

(Barbados Nation) A deadly blast that resulted in the deaths of a secondary school teacher and his two small children is now rife with mystery.

(Barbados Nation) Pastor Victor Roach has passed. The anti-tobacco advocate passed away yesterday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

(Barbados Nation) The Argentine mechanic charged in connection with the skimming scam that touched scores of Barbadian bank accounts was remanded to prison when he appeared in court yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) The Customs Department is to be headed by a comptroller and three deputies.

(Barbados Nation) Three former Princess Margaret Secondary School students have been found guilty of the manslaughter of a fellow student in a case of bullying ten years ago.