A person of interest has been detained in connection with a shooting at Brown University in the US which left two people dead, police said. Nine others were injured after a gunman opened fire at the university in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturd...

By the time Kees Dieffenthaller, better known simply as Kes, and his bandmates step onto the stage of Frederick P. Rose Hall this January, it won’t just be another concert. It’ll be a full-circle moment two decades in the maki...

July 1st, 2024, will long be remembered by Barbadians — especially those whose livelihoods depended on the sea. On that day, Hurricane Beryl swept across the island, crippling the fishing industry and leaving many fisherfolk still struggling to pie...

It was no ordinary day on February 11, 2024. According to Roger Ricardo Springer, the sea appeared very angry. Just a few hours later, he and his friend, Jeremy Adrian Payne, would be fighting to save the lives of sea-bathers at Queen Street beach, S...

The Richard Stoute Amphitheatre at the National Botanical Gardens is now moving closer to completion following a major financial contribution from CIBC Caribbean. On Wednesday, December 9, the bank made a BDS $1.2 million donation through its Comtrus...

Tomorrow’s official start of Barbados’ 2025/2026 tourism winter cruise season marks the beginning of a year with an encouraging outlook for the performance of the bedrock of the Barbados economy. With projections for increased activity in most to...

Two gunmen opened fire at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, December 14, killing 11 people and wounding multiple others in a “terrorist incident” during a gathering for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Emergency responders rushed anot...

Attorney and consumer advocate Tricia Watson has called Government’s proposed Economic Diversification and Growth Fund alarming and not acceptable, saying it is being established to “give our money to substantial foreign companies”. Watson shar...

 The Ministry of Natural Resources has strongly urged miners across Guyana to cease the practice of paying workers in raw gold, warning that the illegal method of compensation undermines transparency, weakens gold declarations, and exposes workers t...

 A visibly frustrated West Indies head coach Daren Sammy dissected another damaging collapse, labelling his team’s nine-wicket defeat to New Zealand in the second Test as a case of “two steps backwards.” The tourists, utterly outplayed inside ...