The injury problems plaguing West Indies fast bowlers reached crisis stage yesterday. Two of the team’s young talents – Shamar Joseph and Jediah Blades were withdrawn from the ongoing tour of Bangladesh and will now undergo rehabilitation. In the...

The curtain came down on the 2025 National Independence Festival of Creative Arts Performing Arts semi-finals recently after 22 performances, many of which were impressive. Audiences don’t seem to tire hearing the St Cyprian’s Boys’ School Choi...

Three of four drivers accused of stealing truck-loads of imported sand from a local company confessed to the crime when they recently appeared in District “A” Traffic Court.  Javon Tekell Alleyne, of Lot 987, The Villages, Coverley, Christ Churc...

Member of Parliament Marsha Caddle has defended the Government’s record of public consultation before the passage of new legislation, insisting that citizen engagement remains a cornerstone of the Barbados Labour Party’s (BLP) governance approach...

Twenty-year-old Shaquan Renaldo Chandler-Wray was shot to death yesterday along St Barnabas Road, St Michael, around 10:45 a.m.  Witnesses said gunshots were fired during an altercation among an undisclosed number of individuals.  Police co...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds has dismissed as “AI-generated fake news” a social media post claiming he had been arrested overseas. In a statement over the weekend, he assured the public he was “alive and well”...

Barbados is one of 15 CARIFORUM members that will benefit from a new 3 million Euros (approximately BDS$7 million) initiative to strengthen their quality infrastructure (QI). The support includes the development of QI-related policies, regulations, a...

Sanae Takaichi was elected prime minister of Japan on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to lead the country. Japan’s House of Representatives announced in a statement that Takaichi had been “chosen by open ballot” during a plenary...

PORT OF SPAIN – Two earthquakes within a two-hour period rattled several Caribbean countries on Monday night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St. Augustine campus of the University...

Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist...