(Barbados Nation) Having staged a third march yesterday in protest of the Government’s attempt to increase the national retirement age, organisers say they are prepared to ramp up action if Government does not adjust its stance.
(Barbados Nation) Government’s newest proposals for pension reform are fair and reasonable, declared Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) The man who killed two of his girlfriends, stabbing the last one 24 times, and who was described by his father as “demon possessed” was sentenced to the rest of his natural life behind bars yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds has warned that standards of tourism in Barbados must improve after Grantley Adams International Airport’s (GAIA) recent Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dubai and Agencias Universales S.A.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados bid farewell to its fourth Prime Minister, Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, as he was laid to rest yesterday afternoon at the St James Cemetery.
(Barbados Nation) The Central Bank of Barbados is advising residents to use the security features in the new polymer banknotes in the wake of images and video on social media purporting to show counterfeit currency.
(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley was awarded one of Venezuela’s top honours.
(Barbados Nation) The three branches of KFC Barbados at which workers staged industrial action on Friday remain closed to the public.
CARICOM today expressed condolences on the passing of former Barbadian Prime Minister, Sir Erskine Sandiford.
Port of Spain, Trinidad – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) late Friday, published its judgment denying special leave in a case out of Barbados, in which Ramnarace Ramassar sought permission to appeal an ejection order obtained against him by his landlord, Stella Scantlebury.
(Trinidad Guardian) Barbados Attorney General Dale Marshall yesterday made it clear that his government was not to blame in the highly controversial October 2022 arrest of Trinidadian Brent Thomas in Barbados and his subsequent transfer to T&T.
(Barbados Nation) Government, the private sector and the trade unions on May Day signed onto the Declaration of Mission Barbados.
(Barbados Nation) Barbadians are being told to brace for the possibility of shortages in some crops, as the agricultural drought affecting the island persists.
(Barbados Nation) Justice Carlisle Greaves is not happy. His displeasure stems from the unwillingness of a number of witnesses to testify in trials where four men, in two matters, were accused “of shooting up the place”.
(Barbados Nation) The Barbados Light and Power Co Ltd is continuing investigations into the cause of last Tuesday’s island-wide blackout.
(Barbados Nation) A series of rates and conditions of service have been put in place for people in the construction sector employed by firms which have been awarded Government contracts.
(Barbados Nation) Murderer Patrick Nathaniel Leacock stabbed his estranged girlfriend 24 times while their daughter sat nearby at a table eating her breakfast.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) yesterday confirmed that it will retrench 70 per cent of the workforce at its wholly owned Barbados-based subsidiary, Arawak Cement Company.
(Reuters) – Pop and R&B superstar Rihanna made a grand return to the stage yesterday, floating high above the Super Bowl field, dazzling the crowd with a fast-paced medley of her hits and revealing that she is pregnant with her second child.
(Nation News) The Transport Board will soon be rolling out its “cashless” system on board buses.
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