Barbados Nation News

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:33:00 +0000
Man charged with multiple offences
The Barbados Police Service has formally charged 24-year-old Jabarry Tafari Ramsay of Block 2F, Silver Hill, Christ Church, with several offences. Ramsay faces charges in Oistins related to possession of a firearm and ammunition on November 11, 2025....

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:19:20 +0000
Flash Flood watch in effect overnight
Barbados is under a flash-flood watch tonight as unstable atmospheric conditions continue to generate scattered moderate to heavy showers across the island. The Barbados Meteorological Services issued the advisory at 5:30 p.m. today, warning that add...

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:10:04 +0000
Hillaby Turner’s Hall Primary reopens tomorrow
Hillaby Turner’s Hall Primary School is set to reopen on Wednesday after an unexpected closure earlier today caused by a water supply problem. The Education Technical Management Unit confirmed that the issue has been resolved and noted that monitor...

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:44:03 +0000
Mottley calls for fiscal space to help Jamaica bounce back from Melissa
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has called for urgent international support to ensure Jamaica gets the fiscal breathing room it needs to rebuild after Hurricane Melissa. Mottley made the appeal during a CARICOM leaders’ tour of hard-hit co...

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:09:40 +0000
Desmond Haynes joins Barbados Pride in Trinidad
West Indies batting legend Desmond Haynes has joined the Barbados Pride senior men’s team as a specialist performance consultant ahead of the start of the regional Super50 tournament in Trinidad, which will be played from November 19 to 29. The 69-...

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:02:04 +0000
Remote work solution in hurricane season
PICTURE THIS SCENE, familiar to every Caribbean resident: A hurricane or tropical storm is upon us. Within hours, schools announce midday closures, sending parents scrambling. Businesses release employees simultaneously. Roads transform into parking ...

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:43:53 +0000
‘Trust vital in digital adoption’
Financial institutions and other companies seeking to offer digital services to the public must meet people face-fo-face to build trust, especially among the more mature part of the population. That is the advice from George Thomas, chief executive o...

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:12:09 +0000
Guilty of raping eight-year-old girl
Shayne Douglas Marshall had claimed it was the girl’s father who got her to accuse him of rape because he (Marshall) was sleeping with the man’s wife. However, a jury did not believe him and found he had raped the then eight-year-old six years ag...

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:45:37 +0000
Cloudflare outage takes down X and ChatGPT
A number of high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, have gone down for some users due to problems affecting major internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare. Thousands of users reported issues with X and other services to outage monitoring site...

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:48:38 +0000
Rocked by the rains
Broken bridges, stalled vehicles, flooded homes, damaged roads and fallen trees. That was the grim scene which confronted Government officials yesterday as they toured northern parishes to assess the devastation from Sunday’s torrential rainfall, w...

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