After just 12 days on remand, Allan Ricardo Goddard does not wish to see the inside of prison again. Goddard, 43, of Pegwell, Christ Church, returned to the District “A” Magistrates’ Court No. 1 after pleading guilty to assaulting Rasshida Basc...

The Pendry Hotel at Six Men’s, St Peter is beginning to take shape and even residents in the neighbouring fishing village are marvelling at its development. When a Daily Nation team visited the area last week, hundreds of workmen were busy erecting...

A new report by two United Nations agencies warns that climate change could push at least 5.9 million more children and young people in Latin America and the Caribbean into poverty by 2030 unless governments act now.  “Even worse, the number could...

As the countdown continues to the Barbados leg of the 2025 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL), one of the key organisers has outlined that Kensington Oval is on track to deliver top-class pitch and outfield conditions at the region’s numb...

Barbados is getting a $100 million injection of funding to give micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) a major financial boost. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) said a loan of that amount was being made to the Central Bank of Barb...

The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is still in her position despite an announcement by the White House that she had been fired, one of her lawyers has said. According to them, Susan Monarez – who has only be...

At the halfway mark of CARIFESTA XV, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley says the festival is already delivering major dividends for Barbados, describing it as “a major economic catalyst”. Speaking on Tuesday night at the CARIFESTA XV’s Caribbean J...

Update: Police have identified the man who was fatally shot at Simmons Land, Fairfield, St Michael, on Wednesday night as 25-year-old Romario Payne of Haynesville, St James. Lawmen at Black Rock Station said they received a report around 10:15 p.m. o...

A black-clad gunman killed two children and wounded 17 other people on Wednesday, when he opened fire on students attending Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, authorities said, a shocking outburst of violence at the beginning of the U.S. school y...

Past mistakes. That was David Anthony Griffith’s explanation of two nine-month-old charges which he faced in the District “A” Traffic Court yesterday. “At that point when I committed the offences last year, I had been smoking. I was living at...