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Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:28:44 +0000BDF EMT volunteers “happy to help” Jamaica
The first set of volunteers in Jamaica, just before leaving the BDF EMT in Westmoreland to return to Barbados. (GP)
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Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:59:11 +0000Man charged with firearm and ammunition offences
A 66-year-old St. Michael man has been arrested and charged in connection with a firearm and ammunition discovery earlier this week. John Mitchell Cozier, of Niles Road, Eagle Hall, with possession of a firearm and possession of 15 rounds of ammuniti...
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:53 +0000Clarification and Apology to Sandra Osborne
On 8th December, 2025, we published posts on our feed and in our story featuring a photograph of Ms Sandra Osborne SCM SC with the headline “Bajan questioned at Games in Peru” and a caption referring to a member of the Barbados delegation at the ...
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:22:20 +0000Prime Minister Mottley named among Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women for 2025
Prime Minister Mia Mottley has secured a spot on the 2025 Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list, where she ranks No. 99 among the globe’s most influential political, business, and philanthropic leaders. Forbes highlights Mottley’s continu...
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:41:47 +0000Plan to give children ‘best global chance at success’
With Government’s vision firmly set on making Barbados the number one education system in the world within the next seven years, Minister of Educational Transformation Chad Blackman says the proposed infrastructural, curricula, and technologica...
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:37:00 +0000Mexico approves up to 50% tariffs on China and other countries
Mexican lawmakers have approved a package of new tariffs, impacting hundreds of products, many of which come from China. The measures, which President Claudia Sheinbaum has said are needed to boost domestic production, were passed by the Mexican Sena...
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:29:18 +0000Bajan fruit cake taking shape
One reader remarked: “Mrs Maynard-Watson, I understand what you are doing. Yes! A commercial fruit cake made with Bajan grown fruit would be a game changer.” As I read the above feedback from a reader of this column, I felt nostalgic because we a...
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:22:53 +0000Phone records show three calls
Three calls were made between the mobile number assigned to former calypso monarch Aziza Clarke and the one assigned to Selwyn Stuart, on March 21, 2019. When the trial of Aziza Kebret Tsgaye Clarke continued before Justice Carlisle Greaves in the ...
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:13:41 +0000US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns ‘act of piracy’
US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said, marking a sharp escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro’s government. “We have just seized a tanker on the coa...
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:04:25 +0000PSV licensing backlog cleared
Chief Licensing Officer Treca McCarthy-Broomes has declared that the licensing and inspection backlog affecting public service vehicles (PSVs) has now been resolved, with more than 400 certificates already issued and additional approvals due to proce...