The Barbados Police Service is asking for the public’s help in locating Justin Omari Jones, also known as “Gringo” or “Elgringo”, who is wanted for questioning in connection with serious criminal matters. Jones, whose last known address is ...

Months of speculation about the status of Ronnie Clarke were put to rest today when news broke that he was dismissed by Starcom Network. Clarke, who was programme manager at the radio station and spent 25 years with the company, was in good spirts wh...

Liza Katsiashvili Something out of the ordinary was noticed at the WHO’s COP11 venue last week in Geneva. A light show illuminated the building’s walls, urging consumers to be part of the global tobacco control dialogue. The message was clear: th...

Telecommunications company Liberty Latin America (LLA) joined forces with the Liberty Caribbean Foundation to deliver essential humanitarian and technical supplies to Jamaica in the days following Hurricane Melissa’s passage late last month. In a s...

His was a situation that he had been “put in”. So said selfconfessed fraud Diego Jerome King when he reappeared in the No. 4 Supreme Court on Wednesday. King, of York Terrace, The Pine, St Michael, pleaded guilty, at an earlier Session of the Con...

The familiar sound of the Salvation Army’s Christmas kettles returned to the streets of Bridgetown on Friday morning as the organisation officially launched its annual Christmas Kettle Appeal at Golden Square Freedom Park. The event, attended by Pr...

The Barbados Police Service has announced several traffic changes for the Remembrance Day Service and Parade on Sunday at the Cenotaph in National Heroes Square, Bridgetown. The restrictions will be in place from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Upper Broad Street,...

One of the Caribbean’s leading economists is urging Barbados and other islands in the region to establish public investment funds and pump more money into initiatives that make people, not just infrastructure, more resilient. Trinidadian Dr Justin ...

To show the importance and versatility of breadfruit, the Ann Hill School hosted its Breadfruit Day on Tuesday. Under the theme Feeding the Future, the event, held at the school, coincided with International Breadfruit Week,&...

A new study on young offenders on remand at Dodds Prison has painted a troubling picture of how early exposure to violence, substance abuse, family instability, and weak school engagement are fuelling Barbados’ youth crime problem. Senior Research ...