Mottley warns commercial banks
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has lambasted the commercial banks over their high fees threatening to pass new laws to rein them in while announcing plans for a new type of local bank. Ms. Mottley was addressing a Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry business forum and luncheon at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. She […]
NEW TOP COP ANNOUNCED
Forty-two-year veteran of the Royal Barbados Police Force, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Richard Boyce, will be Barbados’ next Commissioner of Police. Mr. Boyce’s appointment as Commissioner of Police becomes effective on Monday November 1, 2021. Her Excellency the Governor General, acting on the advice of the Protective Services Commission, today approved the appointment on […]
Update: Two staff injured in robbery attempt
Two bank employees have been shot during an attempted armed robbery at the Wildey, St. Michael branch of Republic Bank. Stunned customers of the bank spoke of seeing a short, slim masked man dressed in dark clothing who entered the bank pointing a gun. Shots were fired during reported attempts to get a teller to […]
Teller shot during armed bank robbery at Wildey
A teller was shot this morning during an armed robbery at the Republic Bank Wildey, St. Michael branch. More details as they come to hand.
‘Get well soon Grynner’
Cultural icon McDonald Blenman, the Mighty Grynner, remains under medical care recovering from an illness. Sources close to the revered calypsonian tell Starcom Network News that Mr. Blenman is at this point in time still on the road to recovery. The seven-time Crop Over road march champion was in 2019 honoured with the renaming of […]
Sixteen Covid-19 deaths in three days
The Ministry of Health reports seven more covid19 deaths, a total of 16 fatalities from the virus in three days here. The latest covid update states that a 40-year-old Barbadian woman died yesterday at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Meanwhile, a 53-year-old Vincentian man in primary isolation, and two Barbadian […]
Optimistic forecast by Central Bank
The Barbados Central Bank reports that economic recovery has begun but stresses the importance of increasing vaccinations to get the covid-19 pandemic under control here. This was the assessment of Central Bank Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes delivering the economic review for the first three quarters of the year. He stated that while the pandemic continues […]
PM: No lockdown, no mandatory vaccination
Barbados’ daily covid-19 cases have set yet another record, 427 new positives from 2 thousand 555 tests done yesterday. The cases include 70 people who are under the age of 18. There are now more than 45 hundred people in isolation – 638 in isolation facilities and 3 thousand 896 in home isolation. Minister of […]
Police probe St. Lucy murder
Police are on the scene of a homicide at Maycocks Beach, St. Lucy. More details as they come to hand.
Canary Islands: volcanic smoke shrouds Barbados
