Fire Service battles spate of grassfires
The Barbados Fire Service had been this afternoon battling more than a dozen grass fires across at least three parishes but mostly in Christ Church. Fire officer, Glyne Alleyne, tells Starcom Network News that were about five fires in Christ Church alone. He advised people with conditions that might be affected by the smoke to […]
Man injured in city cutlass attack
A man has been chopped several times about the body in an altercation at Literary Row near Cheapside Market the city. Starcom Network News understands one man is now in police custody while the other was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital by Ambulance. A land Surveyor who was in the area at the time […]
Road fatality in St. Lucy
Barbados has recorded yet another road fatality, the tenth for the year and the second to occur in the northern parish of St. Lucy this month. Starcom Network News understands that, George Broomes, a general worker at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital this morning after […]
UK snap election
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a snap general election for July 4th. Mr. Sunak was required to hold a vote by January 2025, and had long resisted calls to be specific about his plans. A fall in inflation rates, announced today, provided the backdrop for the announcement, which was made outside Downing Street […]