In the Press - Barbados
What’s Trending: Focus on top cop
The Nation's Online Editor Carol Martindale looks at What's Trending today in Barbados.
The news that Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin has been sent on administrative
Marshall: Not right!
FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL Dale Marshall has rapped the sudden and “confusing” manner in which Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin has been sent on leave, and ...
Coach banned
Former national athletics and netball coach Alwyn Babb has been suspended by the Barbados Netball Association (BNA) from all matches involving his club, Spooners Hill, ...
Track ease
Coaches and athletes have been granted permission to use the track at the National Stadium during clearly specified periods leading up to this weekend’s National ...
Not so fast!
LESS THAN 24 hours after the removal of Commissioner of Police (COP) Darwin Dottin, the acting Deputy COP Seymour Cumberbatch is asking the High Court ...
Coach banned
Former national athletics and netball coach Alwyn Babb has been suspended by the Barbados Netball Association (BNA) from all matches involving his club, Spooners Hill, ...
Special Comment
NO EVENT in recent memory has plunged a tranquil, if anxious, Barbados into a greater state of shock and dismay than the action taken on ...
QEH apologises for ailing ambulance service
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s ambulance service is ailing so badly that the public is being asked to restrict help calls to genuine emergencies only. People should ...
Sparman: They are out to get me!
SOMEBODY IS OUT to get me. That, essentially, is how Dr Alfred Sparman explained, at a press conference yesterday, why he has not been registered by ...
Talks overs new venue for show
THE BIG SHOW, which will host five of its six shows at the soon-to-be-closed Plantation Theatre, is seriously discussing with one of its sponsors the ...
Marshall: Not right!
FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL Dale Marshall has rapped the sudden and “confusing” manner in which Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin has been sent on leave, and ...
She builds communities
SOPHIA GREAVES-BROOME, like many other nation-building Barbadian women, has a strong love for community development. She holds the post of special projects coordinator for Pinelands Creative ...
A ‘warm but fierce’ Sealy laid to rest
SHEILA SARA SEALY, a long-standing educator and former principal of The Michael School, was laid to rest yesterday. The St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bay Street, ...
Active Daisy turns 100
IT IS OBVIOUS she loves to dance and every time someone struck up a chord, centenarian Daisy Mahon moved, swayed and clapped witha bright smile ...
Name Stadium after Oba
WITH THE COUNTRY seemingly in renaming mode of some institutions I wonder when, not if, Obadele Thompson will be considered for such an honour. He deserves more than ...
Foster: Build brands that last
NURTURE YOUR BRAND, make sure your company is built to last and innovate. These were just some of the pointers co-founder of Automotive Art Dereck Foster ...
Straughn: Make a move
Economist Ryan Straughn has urged players in the credit union movement to go ahead with plans for a credit union-owned commercial bank, suggesting that a ...
Consequences of removing Dottin
THE REMOVAL OF Darwin Dottin as Commissioner of Police by the Police Service Commission (PSC) “in the public interest” with immediate effect should be of ...
Rangers dent Pride of Villa
Defending champions C.O. Williams Rangers warmed up for this weekend’s Barbados Netball Association play-offs with a clinical 55-32 dismissal of Guardian General Pride of Villa ...
Two Toothless Tigers
It seems that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)has finally woken up. Barbadians were appalled by the findings revealed regarding the National Housing Corporation (NHC) during ...