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Jazz and art to benefit UWI students
The cool sounds of jazz permeated The Mount Restaurant on the grounds of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus on Sunday night. Beautiful works of art from local artists were also on...
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SYRIA – Damascus attaches conditions to UN inquiry
DAMASCUS – The Syrian foreign minister has set out conditions for any UN investigation into the deaths of dozens of people from a chemical agent on Tuesday. Walid Muallem told the BBC it would have to...
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Flow joins CARIFTA Games again
The excitement is steadily building as the Caribbean’s best junior athletes begin their final preparations for the highly anticipated 2017 Flow CARIFTA Games in the Dutch isle of Curacao. More than 600...
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PHILADELPHIA – Facebook murder suspect dead
PENNSYLVANIA – Police say a man suspected of randomly shooting a grandfather on an Ohio street and posting video of the killing to Facebook has taken his own life. Steve Stephens’ car was spotted on...
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Pakistani PM survives corruption allegations
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif survived a Supreme Court ruling Thursday over corruption allegations that could have seen him ousted from office. The five-judge panel, formed by...
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Brazil ministerial building set on fire during clashes
BRASILIA –– Angry demonstrators in Brasilia have started a fire inside the ministry of agriculture and have damaged several other ministerial buildings. Brazilian authorities estimate around 35,000 are...
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Mission possible
West Indies Women, the reigning queens of the International Cricket Council Women’s T20 World Cup, now have their eyes on another prize, this time it’s the ICC’s 50-Over title. Speaking with the media...
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Young ladies jostling for play-offs
As the preliminaries of the National Sports Council’s Pine Hill Dairy Primary Schools Netball Championship wind down, teams are shooting for a place in the play-offs. St Martin’s Mangrove Primary...
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TRINIDAD – No confidence
PORT OF SPAIN –– The Law Association last night called on Chief Justice Ivor Archie to step down after passing historic no-confidence motions against the CJ and members of the Judicial and Legal...
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West Indies sweep Afghanistan
Veteran Marlon Samuels dominated with a classy career-best half-century as West Indies brushed aside minnows Afghanistan by seven wickets in the final Twenty20 International to sweep the three-match...
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Jovan on cloud nine
Loud cheers pierced the air at Blackman and Gollop Primary School as the news broke that ten-year-old Jovan Linton was named the island’s top boy in this year’s Common Entrance exam with 99 per cent...
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Corbin takes chess lead
After three rounds of the five in the KSM National Seniors Chess championship, FIDE master Dr Philip Corbin is in the soul lead with a maximum of three points. Dr Corbin defeated Mark Lowe over the...
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Alleyne, O’Neal win ‘the June’
Leslie Alleyne and Chris O’Neal re-wrote the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) record books at the weekend with victory in the Sol 60th Anniversary June Safari, despite a scare on the final route which made...
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Worship experience
Epic! Awesome! Next level! Truly a blessing! This was how patrons described the launch of John Yarde’s first album 1st John Sunday night at the Collymore Rock Church of the Nazarene. The church was...
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‘Zero happened’
PARIS – President Donald Trump offered a staunch defense of his eldest son Thursday, saying Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer was a standard session that any political operative would...
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Text lands conductor in hot water
The next time Tony Antonio Seon Smith sees a text message that he does not like, he will have a $900 reminder to keep his cool. Smith, of Murray Land, Clevedale Road, Black Rock, St Michael, pleaded...
View Article$10,000 bail on drug charges
A White Hall, St Michael man was placed on $10,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the No. 2 District ‘A’ Criminal Court’ charged with multiple drug possession...
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Lakers, Pinelands’ battle on
Barbados Lumber Company Lakers were victorious 77-72 to tie the Co-operators General Insurance Barbados Amateur Basketball Association best of five series final 1-1, against defending champions Orange...
View ArticlePanton leads champion driver race
After a dominant run of four straight WRC class wins, Jamaica’s Jeffrey Panton is the first competitor from the four-wheel-drive classes to lead the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) champion driver title...
View ArticleGUYANA – Escape
GEORGETOWN – Police up to press time had recaptured seven of 13 prisoners who staged a daring, pre-dawn breakout yesterday from the Lusignan Prison holding area, after crawling to freedom through a...
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