Liverpool passengers among 200 stuck at airport due to faulty Thomas Cook flight
Up to 200 passengers, including Liverpudlians, are stranded in Barbados after their flight was delayed for nearly 24 hours. The faulty plane was set to take off from Barbados to Manchester at 6.30pm UK...
View ArticleBCA saga continues
This is the Barbados Cricket Association, looking bad in the face of the entire world,” the board member bemoaned. “This is easily the most embarrassing day in the history of the BCA,” that peeved...
View ArticleBarbados isn't taking any chances with chikungunya.
The Barbados Franchise will be sending a 17-man squad to Port of Spain next week as a special precaution, with three cricketers who are training to make the team already showing symptoms associated...
View ArticleBarbados isn’t taking any chances with chikungunya.
The Barbados Franchise will be sending a 17-man squad to Port of Spain next week as a special precaution, with three cricketers who are training to make the team already showing symptoms associated...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Garnes the lone bright spark
BARBADOS’ inexperienced bodybuilding team came up short in Costa Rica, finishing a disappointing fourth in the team race. However, there was one bright spot in Shirley Garnes, who delivered the...
View ArticleTOURISM MATTERS: Let's not fail the November test – again
The year 2014 heralds the hosting of the fifth Barbados Food Wine and Rum Festival and by now there should be some effective way of measuring if this event has been growing sufficiently to ensure that...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Got Him
A fugitive since March 18, 1985, he was nabbed around 10:30 a.m. yesterday on the bridge of the cruise liner the Pacific Princess when it docked at the Grenadine island of Mayreau, off St. Vincent....
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Prostate tests vital
It is against this unfortunate background that the gesture by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) to encourage more Barbadian men to undergo screening for prostate cancer by offering a 50 per cent...
View Article'King can make comeback'
President of the Barbados Tennis Association, Dr Raymond Forde, revealed yesterday that King has sent off a private email to the association, apologising to its members, and asking the country's young...
View ArticleBarbados off tax haven list
A year ago Colombia branded Barbados, Bermuda, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar, Guernsey, and Panama as “tax havens” and said they would be assigned this label if they failed to “enter into...
View ArticleCharitable order to visit Barbados
CARDINAL GRAND PRIOR of the Constantinian Order of St George, Renato Raffaele Martino, will lead a three-member delegation to Barbados from November 8 to 10. The visit is the final leg of a wider...
View Article‘King can make comeback’
Barbados’ tennis fraternity is embarrassed by the actions of its biggest star, but the top brass of the sport’s governing body fully expects Darian King to bounce back in a positive way. President...
View ArticleCanadian study interest
During a tour of the fair Canada's High Commissioner to Barbados Richard Hanley said Canada offered more than 10 000 undergraduate and graduate degree programmes. He said Canada was home to a number of...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Sudden end of the Winston Hall saga
On the run in Barbados and neighbouring islands; hiding in the hills and seeking food and shelter for well over 1 000 days and nights; disguising his identity and changing his personality; distrusting...
View ArticleAllendale residents battle water
According to the forecast by the Barbados Meteorological Service, week and unstable conditions will continue to affect the island. As a result, tonight will be cloudy with some scattered showers,...
View ArticleLiverpool passengers among 200 stuck at airport due to faulty Thomas Cook flight
Up to 200 passengers, including Liverpudlians, are stranded in Barbados after their flight was delayed for nearly 24 hours. The faulty plane was set to take off from Barbados to Manchester at 6.30pm UK...
View ArticleBarbados isn’t taking any chances with chikungunya.
The Barbados Franchise will be sending a 17-man squad to Port of Spain next week as a special precaution, with three cricketers who are training to make the team already showing symptoms associated...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Garnes the lone bright spark
BARBADOS’ inexperienced bodybuilding team came up short in Costa Rica, finishing a disappointing fourth in the team race. However, there was one bright spot in Shirley Garnes, who delivered the...
View Article'King can make comeback'
President of the Barbados Tennis Association, Dr Raymond Forde, revealed yesterday that King has sent off a private email to the association, apologising to its members, and asking the country's young...
View Article‘King can make comeback’
Barbados’ tennis fraternity is embarrassed by the actions of its biggest star, but the top brass of the sport’s governing body fully expects Darian King to bounce back in a positive way. President...
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