The visiting CARICOM Election Observation Mission has given Barbados’ election process a passing grade, albeit with a few caveats. During a media briefing at Hotel Indigo, Hastings, Christ Church, Chief of Mission Ian Hughes made three preliminary ...

Emergency services are responding to a fire at B’s Recycling Plant in Cane Garden, St Thomas, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has confirmed. The blaze has resulted in heavy smoke affecting several surrounding communities. Residents in Cane Gard...

Wilfred Abrahams is the new Attorney General of Barbados. Abrahams, the Member of Parliament for Christ Church East and an attorney-at-law, was sworn in at State House today by President The Most Honourable Jeffrey Bostic. This is his third term in t...

A US Navy warship collided into a Navy supply vessel during a refuel operation, the US military’s Southern Command confirmed to the BBC. Two people reported minor injuries during Wednesday’s replenishment-at-sea operation, Southern Comman...

The prosecution will call rebuttal evidence when the gun and ammunition trial of Zico Renaldo Williams continues in the No. 4 Supreme Court next Wednesday. This comes after a defence witness stated she was told by the accused’s mother that he said ...

A disappointing result! That is how president of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Ralph Thorne described the result of the 2026 General Election in Barbados after the party failed to win a single seat. It was the third such occasion the DLP was beat...

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley had led the Barbados Labour Party to an unprecedented 30-0 victory for the third successive time in Barbados’ electoral history. With similar margins of victory in 2018 and again in 2022, there was a school of though...

Leader of the Opposition and president of the Democratic Labour Party, Ralph Thorne, was unable to secure a seat in the House of Assembly. In the early hours of Thursday morning, returning officer Gracia Bolden-Thompson said Thorne polled 1 876 votes...

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and former deputy Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw were both returned to the House of Assembly. Mottley swept the St Michael North East constituency with 3 570 votes. Her nearest challenger, newcomer Jamal Sandiford of t...

All eyes are still on the St John seat at this time. Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne was soundly beaten in four of the early boxes JA1, JA2, JA3, JA 4 and JB1 by the incumbent Charles Griffith of the Barbados Labour Party who secured a lead of 892 aga...