Barbados News

(Barbados Nation) PORT OF SPAIN – Earlier yesterday the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) dismissed an application by four Grenadian nationals against Barbados.

(Barbados Nation) Reverend Reginald Knight has called it quits. The part-time tutor at the Barbados Community College (BCC) has decided to withdraw his services as a tutor in ethics and citizenship, six days after being embroiled in a controversy over leaked exam results at the Howells Cross Road, St Michael institution.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley last night announc-ed a slew of measures aimed at improving the conditions in schools, making them more conducive to teaching and learning.

(Barbados Nation) A cricket ball which was hit for six has left a young mother grieving the death of her baby.

By Ezra Alleyne   (Barbados Nation) It is impossible to calculate the loss to regional journalism as a result of the passing of Harold Hoyte.

(Barbados Nation) Government will sell the assets of the collapsed insurance giant CLICO to help pay off the expenses of its successor, which itself is being dissolved During a town hall meeting on Wednesday night for policyholders of Resolution Life (ResLife), the court-sanctioned successor of CLICO, Director of Finance in the Ministry of Finance Economic Affairs and Investment, Ian Carrington, said this course of action would be taken.

(Barbados Nation) A man and a church have been threatened with legal action if they conduct a memorial service for Shane Brathwaite, who was gunned down on February 27.

(Barbados Nation) Harold Hoyte has passed away. Hoyte, one of the founders of The Nation Publishing Co, passed away around 11:30 a.m.

(Barbados Nation) A goverment backbencher has frowned on the “romanticising” of the recently held Buju Banton concert.

(Barbados Nation) The “fire” within the Barbados Fire Service continues to burn.

(Barbados Nation) Consumers will pay more for gasoline, but less for kerosene and liquified petroleum products, from midnight Sunday, May 5.

(Barbados Nation) Mia Kirton thought she was having a nightmare when she got a call that her boyfriend of five years, Eton “Uncle” Lyken, was shot dead during a robbery.

(Barbados Nation) LIAT is staying in the air in spite of its financial challenges.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has sent a strong verbal message to Cricket West Indies (CWI) led by Ricky Skerritt that it should be cautious before moving swiftly to introduce a clean sweep of the top decision-makers of a sport which comes close to religion status in the English-speaking Caribbean.

(Barbados Nation) Attorney General Dale Marshall is warning Barbadians that terrorism threats might be closer to home than they think.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley has established a special committee as Government seeks to ensure investors are not granted “egregious contracts” and concessions.

(Barbados Nation) A screaming prankster and his friend, who barged into a church disrupting its service last week and scaring members, have been condemned by the minister for the social media antic.

(Barbados Nation) Trinidad Cement Limited  (TCL) isn’t planning on waiting for the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to determine what’s next in the cement war against Barbados-based Rock Hard Cement after all.

(Barbados Nation) Government’s amendment to the Bail Act has received some approval from the court of public opinion.

(Barbados Nation) DRUG USERS who have been caught with what might seem to be small quantities of marijuana are actually helping to fuel the trade in illegal guns.