Barbados Nation News
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:33:01 +0000Wanted man Dareo Mitchell now in police custody
Dareo Theo Mitchell of Chelston Garden, Culloden Road, St Michael, who was the subject of a Wanted Man bulletin issued on January 18 in connection with serious criminal matters, is now in police custody. Mitchell presented himself to the Oistins Poli...
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:26:35 +0000Man charged with murder and firearm offences
Khalil Lavaar Hurley, 27, of no fixed place of abode, has been charged with murder and firearm offences. Hurley was charged with the January 9, 2026 murder of Andre Parris at Worthing Beach, Christ Church, and unlawful use of a firearm on the same da...
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:55:10 +0000Ex-Bajan priest again guilty of abuse
The Church of England is under renewed scrutiny after a recent tribunal upheld another child sexual abuse complaint against former priest, Barbadian David Tudor. The tribunal confirmed that Tudor abused a 15-year-old girl in Surrey during the 1980s, ...
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:49:01 +0000Trump lashes out at Supreme Court justices over tariffs ruling
US President Donald Trump lashed out in unusually personal terms against the six Supreme Court justices who handed him one of the biggest setbacks of his second term in office by striking down the administration’s global tariffs. The court̵...
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:37:27 +0000Bahamas Deputy PM distances himself from disgraced US sex offender
Deputy Prime Minister, Chester Cooper, has described as “fake” a document circulating on social media alleging that he met with the late convicted United States sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as well as receiving a campaign contribution from ...
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:19:57 +0000Killer gets life sentence
Life in prison with a tariff of just over 42 years after deductions. That was the sentence killer Gabriel Shando Hayde got, from Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell, for the first of his two 2020 murders, described as a “brutal execution-style killing...
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:01:04 +0000DLP faces leadership dilemma
The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is grappling with a political leadership puzzle after the swearing in of Senator Ryan Walters left him as the party’s only parliamentary representative. With no seats in the House of Assembly following the third co...
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:17:23 +0000Wanted man Turvy Federick now in police custody
Turvy Federick, 28, of no fixed place of abode and previously the subject of a “Wanted Man” bulletin issued on Monday, January 19 is now in police custody. He was taken into custody on Friday, February 20 and is currently assisting police personn...
Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:52:16 +0000Bostic likens gun crime to a Category 5 hurricane
President of Barbados, The Most Honourable Jeffrey Bostic, likened gun crime and gun violence to a Category 5 hurricane, threating the republic. He was delivering the President’s Address during the official opening of Parliament today. Deviating fr...
Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:35:41 +0000Arthur Holder is first independently elected Speaker of the House of Assembly
Former Member of Parliament for St Michael Central, Arthur Holder, is the first independently elected Speaker of the House of Assembly. He assumes the chair this parliamentary term without having faced the electorate, following a change to the legisl...