Barbados Nation News
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:21:23 +0000Liverpool clinch Premier League title with thumping win over Spurs
Liverpool were crowned Premier League champions in style – and drew level with Manchester United on 20 titles – as Tottenham Hotspur were demolished on a day of wild celebrations and emotion at Anfield. Arne Slot’s side needed only ...
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:09:21 +0000DLP leader promises clean campaign ahead of St. James North by-election
Democratic Labour Party (DLP) leader Ralph Thorne is promising a clean campaign for the upcoming by-election. Addressing the congregation of Restoration Ministries, Brittons Hill, St Michael, where the party commemorated its 70th anniversary, Thorne ...
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:22:58 +0000BFA partners with National HIV/STI community outreach program
The Barbados Football Association (BFA) has announced a new partnership with the Ministry of Health and Wellness HIV/STI Program Office, in collaboration with the Ministry’s Adolescent Health division. The partnership, aimed at promoting sexual and...
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:52:44 +0000Death toll from blast at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port rises to 28
The death toll from a powerful explosion at Iran’s biggest port of Bandar Abbas has risen to at least 28, with more than 700 people injured, state media reported on Sunday, as firefighters worked to fully extinguish the fire. Saturday’s b...
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:43:28 +0000St Lucy to get close to 400 houses in multimillion-dollar project
A multimillion-dollar branded hotel and close to 400 houses will be placed on the site where the Arawak Cement Plant now stands at Checker Hall, St Lucy. On Friday, management of TCL Group, owners of the plant which has been in operation here for 41 ...
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:27:13 +0000Crowd soaks up hits of Legends
As the clock struck 11 p.m., the air at the National Botanical Gardens buzzed with anticipation for the first of the three nights of the Barbados Reggae Weekend. As the first Jamaican act for Legends In The Gardens, Carlene D...
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:30:52 +0000Blackman, Dujon on the go in St James North
With a by-election less than a month away, political candidates for St James North, Chad Blackman and Felicia Dujon, wasted no time hitting the campaign trail. Both Dujon, representing the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), and Blackman, of the Barbados ...
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:21:42 +0000Nine people killed after car ploughs into crowd at Vancouver Filipino festival
A driver ploughed a car into a crowd at a street festival celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday night, killing at least nine people and injuring others. Some of those attending the festival helped arrest the suspect at the scene, w...
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:15:01 +0000Family ‘ecstatic’ after Arawak closure decision
“We are ecstatic!” That was the exclamation from the Griffith family when they found out yesterday that Arawak Cement Plant was finally closing its operations and replacing it with a luxury hotel, housing development and business enterprise. Brot...
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:07:06 +0000SOEs earmarked for reform
Government may have to bail out five state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that are not in the best of financial health. They are the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Transport Board, Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC), National Petrole...