Retired UWI Professor Pedro Welch has died/Former PM pays tribute

Retired Professor, historian and former deputy principal at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Pedro Welch has died. Welch, 74, passed away on Thursday evening, less than six months after the death of his mother, Dame Maizie Barker-Welch. His former schoolmate and close friend, former Prime Minister Hon. Fruendel Stuart, remembers Welch […]

Barbadians warned against smuggling reptiles

Barbadians are being warned against smuggling reptiles into the island and about the risks of keeping potentially dangerous snakes as pets. Animal Welfare Coordinator in the Ministry of Health, Wayne Norville, was commenting on a video in circulation showing the capture of a constrictor snake, the latest in a series of such incidents. Mr. Norville […]