The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is intensifying efforts, including the implementation of new programmes, to widen access to millions of dollars in financing and technical assistance for clients in Barbados and its other borrowing member countrie...

​Just over a month ago, Barbados, like many countries around the world, was hit by a surge in respiratory illnesses at the peak of the flu season. For Dr Corey Forde, the Director of Clinical and Diagnostic Services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital ...

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been arrested for his involvement in a protest at a church, his lawyer and a Justice Department official familiar with the situation said on Friday. Lemon livestreamed a demonstration earlier this month that interrupte...

A flash-flood watch remains in effect for Barbados following continuous moderate to heavy showers overnight into early Friday morning. The Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) extended the watch after persistent rainfall affected sections of the is...

Quinton de Kock marked his 100th T20 international with a century as he powered South Africa to a seven-wicket victory over the West Indies on Thursday night. De Kock, who plays for Barbados Royals in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), hit a career-...

A vessel that had been drifting in the South Atlantic for months after its crew was rescued has run aground on a reef just off Sam Lord’s Castle. Major Robert Harewood, Deputy Director of the Department of Emergency Management (DEM), said the ship,...

Police have identified the man found dead in a vehicle at the Usain Bolt Sports Complex car park in Lazaretto, St Michael, as 66-year-old Eric Joseph Butcher of Phillip Drive, Pine Garden, St Michael. Operations Control received a report of an unnatu...

There are hitmen in Barbados who are killing people for $3 000. This was the revelation by Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale, SC, who says he sees all this information from the files that land on his desk. “For filthy lucre, for nasty ...

Trinidad and Tobago-born rapper Nicki Minaj declared herself to be Donald Trump’s “number one fan” on Wednesday, while also showing off her Trump “gold card” visa, which offers applicants residency and a path to US citi...

St. Ambrose Primary School will remain closed tomorrow, Friday, following its early closure today to address evidence of mice and roach droppings on the premises. The closure allows for recommended treatment of the school plant, as well as intensive ...