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World Cup pitch intruder jailed for 15 days GO TO STORY
World Cup pitch intruder jailed for 15 days

MOSCOW − A Moscow court on Monday handed down a 15-day jail sentence on one of four people who interrupted Sunday’s World Cup final between France and Croatia when they ran onto the pitch wearing fake...

Men fire at each other as Westbury residents scamper GO TO STORY
Men fire at each other as Westbury residents scamper

Gunshots continue to ring out across Barbados. One incident on Monday broke the mid-morning quiet of Pickwick Gap, St Michael, as loud explosions pierced the air after two men were seen exchanging...

Vision for The Pine GO TO STORY
Vision for The Pine

Describing the Pine Housing Area in St Michael as the closest thing Barbados has to a favela, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has questioned whether the time has not come to look at reducing population...

Retired sugar plantation worker turns 100 GO TO STORY
Retired sugar plantation worker turns 100

A retired sugar plantation worker is Barbados’ latest centenarian. Ruby Lotta Austin on Monday celebrated the occasion with family and friends, along with Governor General Dame Sandra Mason who paid...

NCF: Foreday will be safe GO TO STORY
NCF: Foreday will be safe

The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) is putting plans in place to ensure that the BL&P/Hott 95.3 Foreday Morning jam is one of the safest events this Crop Over season. Manager of administration at...

A work in progress GO TO STORY
A work in progress

Barbados’ football is currently goingthrough a restructuring phase, and in timethe results will reflect such. This was the charge made by Barbados Football Association’s (BFA) general secretary Edwyn...

Windies Women complete camp before ICC WT20 GO TO STORY
Windies Women complete camp before ICC WT20

ST JOHN’S – With just over 100 days to go before the Windies Women go after their second World Twenty20 title, the squad just completed another high-performance camp in Antigua. This “Phase II” which...

Law Commission to be established in Barbados GO TO STORY
Law Commission to be established in Barbados

The establishment of a Law Commission is on the cards for Barbados, as Government seeks to constantly update the island’s legislation. This was highlighted by Attorney General and Minister of Legal...

PM: Gun violence has to stop GO TO STORY
PM: Gun violence has to stop

It has to stop! This is Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s clear message about the lawless behaviour and gun violence in society. Mottley made her thoughts known on Sunday evening when she sat down...

Windies to start 16 ODI trek to 2019 Cricket World Cup GO TO STORY
Windies to start 16 ODI trek to 2019 Cricket World Cup

ST JOHN’S – Windies, still on a high from its 2-0 Test series win will turn its attention on the remaining 3-ODIs and 3-T20Is in the match-up against Bangladesh. With less than a year before the 2019...

French fans give hero welcome to Les Bleus World Cup champions GO TO STORY
French fans give hero welcome to Les Bleus World Cup champions

PARIS − Hundreds of thousands of ecstatic French fans celebrated the return of their World Cup winning football team on Monday, jumping and chanting We Are The Champions as their bus paraded down the Champs...

iWeb defending crown GO TO STORY
iWeb defending crown

iWeb will be defending his Pic-O-De-Crop title. He told NATIONNEWS today that he was doing so for his fans. “My reason for defending is largely because there are so many people who pretty much...

Shock as Trump backs Putin on election meddling at summit GO TO STORY
Shock as Trump backs Putin on election meddling at summit

HELSINKI − US President Donald Trump said after meeting Vladimir Putin on Monday he saw no reason to believe his own intelligence agencies rather than trust the Kremlin leader on the question of whether...

Bo Bo to lead Sweet Soca charge GO TO STORY
Bo Bo to lead Sweet Soca charge

Bo Bo will lead and Lil Rick will end the Sweet Soca competition on July 29 at Soca Royale. Bo Bo pulled first position when the Sweet Soca calypsonians met at the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation...

Chrissy D first on party stage GO TO STORY
Chrissy D first on party stage

Newcomer Chrissy D will perform first in the Party Monarch finals coming off on Sunday, July 29. The finalists drew for positions early this morning during a taping of Festival Stage at the Caribbean...

Shaquille’s success still growing GO TO STORY
Shaquille’s success still growing

Last year Shaquille Layne was holding a girl as Collateral at Bushy Park as one of the Sweet Soca finalists; this year he is issuing an Ultimatum. While he will not be at Bushy Park this year as part...

UPDATE: Search on for shooters GO TO STORY
UPDATE: Search on for shooters

Members of the Task Force swooped down on Pickwick Gap, St Michael combing the area moments ago after shots rang out in the neighbourhood. Residents said they saw two men shooting at each other at...

UPDATE: Silver Hill shooting victim identified GO TO STORY
UPDATE: Silver Hill shooting victim identified

Police are investigating a shooting incident which occurred about 7:15 this morning in Silver Hill Drive, Christ Church. The victim is 53-year-old Hugh Harewood of Wotton Plantation Christ Church....

Police respond to second shooting incident GO TO STORY
Police respond to second shooting incident

There has been another shooting incident this morning. Hours after responding to a shooting in Silver Hill, Christ Church, police were called to Westbury, St Michael, after residents said they heard...

Persaud to chair FSC GO TO STORY
Persaud to chair FSC

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has a new chairman. Well-placed sources on Sunday said that Avinash Persaud, a member of Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s economic team, is chairing the board...

UPDATE: 53-year-old latest shooting victim GO TO STORY
UPDATE: 53-year-old latest shooting victim

Police are currently on the scene of a shooting in Silver Hill Drive, Christ Church. Police public relations officer Acting Inspector Rodney Inniss told THE NATION that law enforcement officials responded...