CMO: Learn to Live with Covid
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kenneth George, assures the public that there’s no need for undue worry over two recent covid-19 clusters. He tells Starcom Network News the ministry of health continues to manage the outbreaks at a construction site in St. Philip and the Psychiatric Hospital in Black Rock which created a spike in the […]
Update on GIS Probe Next Week
The country is to get next week an update on the probe into the Government Industrial School. The reform institution for juveniles is currently the subject of an investigation ordered by the Home Affairs Minister Wilfred Abrahams. Mr. Abrahams tells Starcom Network News that he will provide an update on that probe sometime next week. […]
Extensive Road Works Get Underway
An extensive road works program was officially launched this afternoon. Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony at Carmichael Road, St. George for the Road Works Global Project, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, noted that more than sixty roads have been repaired since 2018 and said the intensive program will continue. Prime Minister Mottley also spoke of […]
No Major Impact Likely From System to the East
Barbados is expected to be spared any major impact from a system to the east. Director of Barbados Meteorological Services, Sabu Best, tells Starcom Network News the system is disorganized and tracking south of Barbados.
Police Probe Deacons Shooting
The police are investigating an apparent shooting at Farm Road, Deacons, St. Michael. STARCOM Network News understands that just before 2PM a police patrol heard gunshots and went to the area but found no apparent victim or perpetrator.
Bdos Police: Viral Baby Suffocation Video From J’ca/Baby Safe
The Barbados Police Service stresses that a viral video showing a child in what appears to be an attempted suffocation is from Jamaica and did not occur in Barbados. The video has been making the rounds on social media showing a baby in diapers crying with a plastic bag over its head. The police acting […]
Taxi Men Want Wider Duty Ease
Some of this country’s taxi drivers are calling for a widening of the concessions to the sector to match the tax breaks offered to the wider tourism industry. President of the Bridgetown Port Taxi Cooperative Society Limited, Adrian Bailey, made the request as he commended Minister of Minister of Energy and Business Development, Kerri Symmonds […]
Tropical Wave to the East Could Become a Depression Next Week
The Barbados Meteorological service says it will continue to monitor a tropical wave to the east of Barbados that weather forecasters say has potential for development. Meteorologist Cherise Brathwaite, says a tropical depression could form by sometime next week. Meteorologist 1 Acting with the BMS, Cherise Brathwaite
No Bashment Segment in Junior Monarch Contest
The finalists have been announced for the National Cultural Foundation’s Junior Monarch Competition and there will be no bashment soca segment. NCF’s CEO Carol Roberts-Reifer made the announcement on VOB’s Fireworks Crop Over program. Mrs. Roberts-Reifer referred to the criticism of the plan for a bashment segment, calling it a healthy conversation, and explained the […]
Alarm in New Orleans Over Gun Play
Residents of 8th Avenue, New Orleans, St. Michael have joined the calls for an end to gun violence as they spoke of their alarm over a shooting there last night. The police say about 11:45 PM a man was standing in the doorway of a house when an unknown person fired at him striking him […]