Heavy showers forecast for this weekend

August 2, 2019. It’s looking like a wet Crop Over last lap weekend. The Met Office says an elongated area of low pressure, which is located about 1000 miles East South East of Barbados, has been generating widespread disorganized showers over the past 24 hours. Some slow development of this system is possible, and a […]

Leadpipe wins People’s Monarch

August 2, 2019 Leadpipe is the 2019 Starcom Network/FLOW People’s Monarch. The announcement was made this afternoon on the Starcom Network stations. Promotions Officer, Julie Jones, and announcer Big Red said Leadpipe swept 73%  of the votes with his hit song ‘Sometimes.’ Hypasounds,  ‘Feh Sah’ came second with 27% of the votes.

Band Leaders gearing up for Grand Kadooment

August 2, 2019 Kadooment bands are looking forward to a good Grand Kadooment and praying for good weather against the background of a system developing in the eastern Atlantic that could bring some rain early next week. Meantime, some band leaders are reporting steady numbers for this year’s Grand Kadooment. Band leader of Fifth Element […]

Assured security

The police report a generally incident-free Crop Over so far and promise that everything is being done to ensure the safety of the public for the last lap events and Kadooment climax. Police Public Relations Officer, Acting Inspector Rodney Inniss, also urges the public to be careful. He was also on the line with us […]