Fernella Wedderburn

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Security has taken no decision to move vendors from Cheapside and Fontabelle ahead of the country’s hosting of the ICC Men’s T20 World…

L eader of the Opposition Ralph Thorne has called on the government to justify the almost $5 million allocated to Oistins for what he described as “cosmetic work” ahead of the ICC T20 Men's World Cup.

Investigations are underway into an accident that claimed the life of a 29-year-old Christ Church man and left another in critical condition. According to police, Rasheed Shaquille Oneal Austin of…

Work on sections of Highway 1 from Lower Carlton to Holetown in St James will restart tonight, Monday, April 29, under the Ministry of Transport and Works Accelerated Mill and Pave Programme.

Ace Barbadian trainer Saffie Joseph Jr continued his rich vein of form this year when he landed wins at two different racetracks on Sunday in the American state of Florida.

Scores of Barbados Labour Party (BLP) supporters converged on Barclays Park on the East Coast Road on Monday to celebrate the 86th anniversary of the Rt Excellent Sir Grantley Adams — one of the party's founding fathers.

A young woman with “a lot of anger issues inside”, who smashed her mother’s car with a rock, may have to compensate her when the case continues on July 17.In the meantime, 22-year-old Kayla Denise Lovell, of Whitehall Terrace, St Michael, is on $2 000 bail.The unemployed woman appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes on Tuesday and admitted that without lawful excuse, she damaged a car belonging to Veronica Lovell, intending to damage that property or was reckless as to whether it was damaged.The District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court heard that the young woman does not reside with her mother but is allowed to visit the residence. On Monday, she was given the opportunity to do so and an argument ensued. Sergeant Randolph Boyce disclosed that the police were called in, and while they were trying to quell the situation, Kayla picked up a rock and threw it at the vehicle, damaging it.Her mother now has to get a cost of that damage to present to the court.

Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes made that appeal after it was found that a Jamaican man, who subsequently admitted to a shoplifting charge, did not have a work permit or any such document pending approval even though he informed the police that he was employed by a construction firm here and a work permit application had been made.

Three St Michael men were remanded to Dodds prison over the weekend when they appeared on separate charges before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes.Shamar Armanny Mayers, a resident of Leigh Gap, Passage Road, went before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on Saturday accused of wounding Derrick Chase on April 24 with intent to maim, disfigure or disable him or to do some serious bodily harm to him.

Amid the home affairs minister's call for decriminalising the wearing of camouflage, a top jurist has suggested it should only remain an offence if used in committing a crime. And the outspoken judge has received the backing of prominent defence barristers.