Worrell: No truth to social media reports about advertised BWA senior post
Chair of the Barbados Water Authority Leodean Worrell has categorically denied social media reports about a post that was advertised. Speaking on VOB’s Getting Down to Brass Tacks call-in program she termed the events as “cyberbullying”. She also promised the BWA is doing whatever it can to address the water issues affecting rural parishes.
COVID-19 Update: 10-year-old boy latest case
A 10-year-old boy is the latest COVID-19-positive patient in Barbados. The Barbadian child was among 125 passengers who arrived at the Grantley Adams International Airport yesterday on an Air Canada flight. He was the only positive case among the 69 persons on the aircraft who were tested for the viral illness. The other passengers carried […]
COVID-19 UPDATE: New case
Barbados recorded one new case of COVID-19 yesterday when a passenger on a British Airways flight tested positive on arrival at the Grantley Adams International Airport. The 76-year-old Barbadian was among 69 passengers on the flight who were tested for the viral illness. There were 218 passengers on board. The others had validated negative COVID-19 […]
BAMP shakeup
The Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) has a new President and Executive after the previous council was ousted at the annual general meeting. BAMP sources say the shake-up occurred at the annual general meeting that had been postponed from May due to the COVID 19 pandemic. It was held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford […]
UPDATE: Police identify man who died after altercation with woman
Police have identified the man who died after an altercation with a woman last night as Ronald Skeete alias ‘Smokey’ 56 years, of Whopping, Orange Hill, St. James. A statement from the police force says that lawmen at District D Station received a report via telephone from a man about 11 55 pm . That […]
Bradshaw: BSSEE went ‘smoothly’
Education Minister Santia Bradshaw reports systems worked smoothly including the new COVID-19 protocols as more than 3,500 students today sat the Barbados Secondary Schools Entrance Exam. Kezia Inniss has the details. Meantime, Wendy Burke was at the St. Michael School, where acting Chief Education Officer Joy Adamson was making her own checks and also reporting […]
Bar concerned about government registries failing to extend payment deadlines
President of the Bar Association, Queen’s Counsel, Rosalind Smith-Millar has expressed concern about the lack of statutory power within the hands of Government’s Registrars to extend payment and filing deadlines in emergency periods. She pointed to the Supreme Court registry, the Land Registry, and the Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property offices which were all closed […]
GAIA expects ‘slow but steady’ commercial traffic|| US flights could be pushed back
Management of the Grantley Adams International Airport say there will be a slow but steady resumption of commercial airline traffic following yesterday’s first commercial flight since the shutdown. Daily intra-regional flights are also resuming but flights from the US are likely to pushed back due to the upsurge in cases there. Chief Executive Officer of […]
Three people shot- one by police
Three people have been shot in two separate incidents, one of them involving the police. One incident occurred last night and the other in the early hours of this morning. Starcom Network News understands that police confronted an armed man at Big Red Bar at Green’s, St. George around 11 pm. The suspect, 23-year-old Atsu […]
Man dies after fall from tree
Police are investigating the unnatural death of a 21 year old man from Baywoods, St. James. Lawmen say about 10.26 am on Saturday the 11th of July 2020, police at Holetown received a report that a man had fallen from a tree whilst he was picking breadfruits. He was described as seriously injured at the […]