Tropical Wave affecting Barbados
The Director of the Barbados Meteorological Services, Sabu Best gave Starcom Network News an update on the current weather conditions affecting the island.
PM Mottley officially opens Crop Over 2024
Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottey has officially declared open the 2024 Crop Over Festival emphasizing the need to preserve the uniqueness of the festival, urging national unity and also delivering a stern warning to the perpetrators of gun violence. Speaking at National Heroes Square during the Digicel Ceremonial Delivery of the Last Canes, Prime […]
PM outlines crime-fighting plan/aid for fisherfolk
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has announced a crime fighting plan that includes the establishment of a special police unit to fight organized crime, restriction of bail for people charged for murder and firearms offences and the expansion of community policing. In a news briefing at Ilaro Court, Miss Mottley also laid out a […]
Stabbing at KFC Fairchild Street
Two women were hospitalized following a stabbing incident at the KFC outlet on Fairchild Street this evening.The incident occurred around 6:40pm. A video that went viral on social media showed that the women were in an argument before the knife attack began. Both women sustained stab wounds about the body. They were rushed to the […]
Labour landslide in UK elections
Labour is set to win a UK general election landslide with a majority of 170, according to an exit poll for the BBC, ITV and Sky. If the forecast is accurate, Sir Keir Starmer will become prime minister with 410 Labour MPs – just short of Tony Blair’s 1997 total. The Conservatives are predicted to […]
NCF shifts Crop Over opening ceremony
The event marking the official start of the Crop Over festival which was originally to be held at the National Botanical Gardens on Saturday, has been relocated to Bridgetown. This announcement was made by the Chief Executive Officer of the National Cultural Foundation, Carol Roberts during a site visit at Golden Square Freedom Park this […]
Fishing sector may take a year to recover, says boat owner
Boat-owner Everton Brathwaite tells Starcom Network News that scores of vessel-owners and fishermen in Barbados are now without a source of income and need help.Hurricane Beryl damaged or destroyed scores of vessels at the Bridgetowm Fisheries Complex. He believes it may take a year for the industry to recover. Boat-owner Everton Brathwaite.
Escaped prisoner found hiding under bed
A resident of Combermere Street in the city has been left shaken after an escaped prisoner was found in her home today. Thirty-one-year-old Mario Austin, who was on remand on a robbery charge escaped from a prison bus on the compound of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Starcom Network News understands that the prison bus had […]
Prisoner escapes from QEH
The police are in pursuit of an escaped prisoner. Starcom Network News understands that the prisoner escaped from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and ran towards the direction of Nelson Street.
Homicide #24
Police are on scene at Kings Street, St. Michael after receiving a report of a stabbing about 6:45 am today. The police say there was an apparent altercation between two men which resulted in one man being stabbed. He was transported to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital by private transport. He died while receiving medical treatment.