Soccer Players Demand UWI Hand Over Prize Money
Tensions are said to be brewing at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus’ Sports Academy over the prize money won during the recent Prime Ministers’ Cup Soccer Tournament. Players are reportedly fuming over the UWI’s alleged refusal to pay the prize money to team members despite the government having turned the money […]
BUT probe
Members of the Barbados Union of Teachers are being summoned to a special general meeting in January to report on the results of a probe into the finances of the organization. Starcom Network News has learnt that an investigation was launched on the orders of the membership attending the union’s last general conference in April […]
Payments to fisherfolk extended
This country’s fisher-folk are to get business interruption benefits for a further three months. This has been announced by Minister of the Environment and National Beautification, the Green and Blue Economy, Adrian Forde. He tells Starcom Network News cabinet yesterday approved the additional payments for boat-owners and their crews whose livelihoods were disrupted by Hurricane […]
Chinese rocket debris causes scare
Strange lights seen streaking across the sky last night over Barbados have been identified as debris from a Chinese rocket. President of the Barbados Astronomical Society, David Marshall told Starcom Network News that the lights were caused by the re-entry of a rocket launched by China. He said the debris was first spotted over Puerto […]
B’dos police get armored vehicle
The Barbados Police Service now has an armored vehicle to help in its crime fight. Well-placed sources confirm that the armored vehicle arrived in the island this week for the use of the police. Those sources explained that the police sometimes conduct very dangerous operations and have been fired on in some cases. They said […]
Two murder accused remanded for “skeletal remains”
Two men have been remanded to Dodds Prison, jointly charged with murder in connection with the skeletal remains found in St. John. Around 2:30 PM today, 25-year-old Samir Jamaldo Wilfred and 61-year-old Ian Kenrick Gittens arrived at the Oistins Magistrates Court and appeared before Joy-Anne Clarke. They were charged with the murder of Junior “Pippy […]
Two men face murder charges for St. John skeletal remains
Two men have been charged with murder in connection with the skeletal remains found in St. John. Starcom Network News understands that the major crimes unit of the Barbados Police Service has arrested and charged 25-year-old Samir Wilfred and 61-year-old Ian Gittens with two counts of murder. A third man, Lamar Waithe, has been charged […]
Deceased in double road fatality identified.
The two men killed in yesterday’s car crash at Bennett’s Road, St. James have been identified. The deceased are 41 year old Ron Benn of Rose Hill, St Peter and 37 year old Antoine Bishop of Alleynedale, St Lucy. They were both formally identified by family members. The vehicle they were traveling in struck a […]
Jamaican national charged with murder/ Hinds remanded on gun and ammo offenses
A Jamaican national will appear before a District A Magistrate, charged with the murder of Shane Parris as well as several drug offenses. 38-year-old Luston Watson who resides at Heddings St. Phillip is accused of killing Parris on January 13th. Police say Parris was standing on the road at Nursery number 2 Four Roads St. […]
Two die in car crash
Two people have been killed in a car crash in St. James in the early hours of this morning. A statement from the Barbados Police Service says that officers from the Holetown Police Station responded to the scene of a road traffic collision along Bennett’s Road which was reported about 1:50 am today. The collision […]