Barbados

Bridgetown. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart urged Barbadian businesses to increase their sponsorship of the Crop Over Festival. Delivering the feature address at launch of this year's festival at the Hilton…

Bridgetown. The Royal Barbados Police is putting greater emphasis on technology in an attempt  to bring order to some of the organisation's deficiencies  in areas such as accident management and…

Bridgetown. A Jamaican woman  was sent to jailed yesterday, after she pleaded guitly to importing cannabis in to Barbados. Velma Maud McKenzie,51, of Paradise Norwood, Montego Bay, admitted before Chief…

Bridgetown. Minister of Finance, Chris Sinckler yesterday said that the Government remains committed to ensuring that the policyholders and depositors in CLICO have their investments protected. Speaking in the House…

Bridgetown. The inappropriate behaviour aboard the popular pleasure boat MC Buccaneer must stop, this is the view of Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin. "The activities on the Buccaneer are being…

Bridgetown. Five men were arrested yesterday on drug related charges, as the police fight against the drug trade continued across Barbados. Police public relation office Inspector David Welch told Trakker…

Bridgetown. The Government of Barbados is leaning towards permitting the use of handsfree phones while driving rather than a full ban on cellphones. Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite made this disclosure…

Bridgetown. The  hotel sector in Barbados is facing an increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) from May1. The Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) is warning that the increase could…

Bridgetown. Barbados' Minister of Labour, Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo believes that the contribution of women have gone unnotice for too long. Speaking at a rally in Hero Square to commemorate the…

Bridgetown: West Indies fast bowler Tino Best is denying that he called a policeman a nigger two weekends ago. Best 30, of Third Avenue, Richmond Gap, St.Michael, appeared in the Bridgetown…