Barbados News

(Barbados Nation) Music producer Eddy Grant believes there should be a calypso college in Barbados.

(Barbados Nation) The massive influx of smelly Sargassum seaweed in the island’s waters continues to inundate a number of beaches across Barbados.

(Barbados Nation) Some of the National Housing Corporation (NHC) units are being used as houses of ill repute.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians are facing the reality they will no longer be able to claim child allowance when filing their personal income tax returns.

(Barbados Nation) The families of missing American couple Oscar Suarez and Magdalena Devil are taking matters into their own hands.

(Barbados Nation) The word must go out – the Internet was not developed for issuing threats and death wishes on others, Chief Magistrate Christopher Birch declared on Monday.

(Barbados Nation) Police are probing reports that scores of bank accounts were hit over the weekend, leaving some customers broke.

(Barbados Nation) DAYS AFTER the Barbados Sea Turtle Project sent out a warning about the dangers of fire pits, 25 pounds of rusty nails were collected from a few square feet of one of the island’s most popular beaches yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) The waves of Sargassum seaweed heading toward Barbados and its neighbours could be as devastating to national economies as a strong tropical storm or a Category 1 hurricane.

(Barbados Nation) Early yesterday afternoon, personnel from the French Navy reported to their counterparts at the Barbados Coast Guard that a jet ski bearing the registration number of the one that went missing on June 24, with two American tourists aboard, was spotted off the coast of Guadeloupe.

(Barbados Nation) With one man dead and two others nursing injuries in separate shooting incidents Tuesday night, police are renewing their call for the public to come forward with information on the gun violence.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley met today with members of the family of missing tourists Oscar Suarez and Magdelena Devil at Ilaro Court.

(Barbados Nation) MISSING WITHOUT a trace. That seems to be the situation surrounding Monday’s disappearance of American visitors Magdalena Devil, 25, and Oscar Suarez, 32, who went missing at sea after renting a jet ski at Holetown, St James, for a half-hour ride.

(Barbados Nation) A group of men who were playing dominoes under a street light at Well Gap, St Michael, early this morning ran for cover when they heard gunshots.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ acute nursing shortage could soon be a thing of the past.

(Barbados Nation) The mother of the security man shot and killed while at work on the MV Dream Chaser on Monday night has been left in shock.

(Barbados Nation) There will be  no extension on the ban of single-use plastics, says Minister of Maritime Affairs, Kirk Humphrey.

(Barbados Nation) It is estimated that about 2 700 Barbadians are living with HIV.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is reducing its financial involvement in LIAT. Government will be giving up some of the major shareholding it has held since the regional airline’s inception 45 years ago, Prime Minister Mia Mottley revealed in a Ministerial Statement on Tuesday night.

(Barbados Nation) Attorney Vonda Pile has been found guilty of theft but not guilty of money laundering.