Barbados News

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has recorded its first confirmed case of monkeypox.

(Barbados Nation) – Emcee Mac Fingall has called it quits from the local stage as a host of calypso tent shows after 40 years.

(Barbados Nation) – Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority (BMCLA), Senator Shanika Roberts-Odle said the approval of its first nine licences to two Barbadian licensees was a great step for the island’s entrance into the sector.

(Barbados Nation) – Attorney General Dale Marshall says there is no immediate fix to the gun-related crime in Barbados and stressed that national public safety is everyone’s responsibility.

(Barbados Nation) Police have identified the bodies of the four people found in a home at Breezy Hill, St Philip this morning.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has tested positive for COVID 19.

(Barbados Nation) The reputation of the island’s legal profession is taking “a battering” as four lawyers currently sit in prison convicted for stealing their clients’ money.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is being held aloft as proof that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is no longer the institution that pushes countries into economic reforms at the expense of pain and social dislocation.

(Barbados Nation) The reputation of the island’s legal profession is taking “a battering” as four lawyers currently sit in prison convicted for stealing their clients’ money.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is being held aloft as proof that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is no longer the institution that pushes countries into economic reforms at the expense of pain and social dislocation.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ health care sector has been bolstered with the arrival of 70 Cuban medical practitioners, including four specialised doctors.

(Barbados Nation) – Syberton Marcelle Miller, who was described by her two daughters as “heartless”, a “sociopath” and “evil personified”, was ordered to serve eight years in prison for killing her husband four years ago.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has made the Time 100 list of the most influential people.

 (Barbados Nation) After 128 years of offering educational services in Barbados, the Ursuline Convent School will be closing in August 2023.

(Barbados Nation) Moments before O’Neal ‘Mike’ Farmer was fatally stabbed in The City on Friday night, he got down on his knees to pray.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is asking the public to be patient as crews from the Barbados Water Authority (BWA), assisted by private contractors, work around the clock on emergency repairs at the Belle Pumping Station.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has not changed its requirement that everyone in public wear masks.

(Barbados Nation) The prestigious Sandy Lane Hotel has lost a court battle for the third time in relation to the wrongful dismissal of three former employees.

(Barbados Government Information Service) Since the start of its digitisation project in 2020, the Archives Department has digitised more than 50 000 pages of historical documents dating back as far as 1635.

(Barbados Nation) By June, Barbadians should be able to switch their phone service providers without having to change their number.