Barbados Nation News
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:13:38 +0000Ryan Brathwaite selected as BLP candidate for St Joseph
Ryan Brathwaite was this evening selected as the Barbados Labour Party candidate for St Joseph. The nomination process took place at the Grantley Adams Memorial School, where Brathwaite was the lone nominee. He will contest the next General Election ...
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:57:30 +0000Irish fashion designer Paul Costelloe dies aged 80
Irish fashion designer Paul Costelloe has died in London aged 80. Costelloe became one of the best-known names in British and Irish fashion and was personal designer to the late Diana, the Princess of Wales. His family issued a statement on Saturday ...
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:33:29 +0000Boyce: Confronting masked riders on illegal bikes
Commissioner of Police Richard Boyce says Barbados must confront the growing trend of masked riders on unregistered motorcycles – a combination he described as “a deliberate disguise for criminals who want to move unseen, strike quickly, and vani...
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:31:49 +0000Rise stars bring the heat
Saturday night Rise Reggae put on it’s third edition of the widely anticipated event with thousands filling Kensington Oval for a night of sweet reggae music and riddims. This year’s line-up of reggae royalty included hea...
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:19:47 +0000Doc wants urgent shared solution to AMR emergency
There are no alarms when bacteria begins to resist medicines, and no visible warnings when a once simple infection becomes harder to treat. Yet across Barbados, professionals in medicine, agriculture, environmental health and marine science are seein...
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:14:20 +0000Get moving in Funathlon
The Nation Publishing Co. Limited is inviting Barbadians to lace up their sneakers and strap on their skates on Sunday for the annual Nation Funathlon, a fitness and fundraising event that has been bringing the island together for more...
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:10:45 +0000Public has ‘right of way’
High Court Judge, Patrick Wells has issued an order permanently restraining multimillionaire Richard Haines, the developer of Joe’s River, from erecting “any obstruction of whatsoever kind” at the public right of way of the historic Joe’s Riv...
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:55:28 +0000BLP presence in St Vincent causes stir, but political scientists’ views differ
The presence of several members of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in St Vincent and the Grenadines a week ahead of elections in that country has stirred some Vincentians who have been posting under a story and pictures that captured the arrival of t...
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:46:20 +0000Easy win for Pride
PORT OF SPAIN – A sensational spell of fast bowling from Akeem Jordan helped to spearhead the Barbados Pride to a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Leeward Islands Hurricanes in their CG United Super50 Cup encounter at the Queen’s Park ...
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:27:01 +0000US revokes visa of NGO official critical of US presence in the Caribbean waters
The Trinidad and Tobago government has sought to distance itself from a decision taken by the United States to revoke the visa of the corporate secretary of the non-governmental organisation, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS), Gary Aboud. Aboud...