Many years ago, a tutor conducting a management studies class asked the group what the duty of a manager was. Each student gave an answer with which the tutor agreed and wrote on the board. After...

Last Saturday night Cheryl Archer experienced a series of “strange” events that left her with an uneasy feeling. Two days later she received the news that no mother wants to hear – her last child Ricardo...

Over 9 000 members of the Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP) will be covered again under a new health insurance plan from May 1. “It is all go,” BARP’s president Ed Bushell said, as he...

Many companies are unable to offer paid internships for job attachments, but scores of youth are being encouraged to take up the opportunities. During the opening of the Barbados Youth Service’s (BYS)...

Over 60 established and fledgling film producers took part in the recently concluded Barbados Cultural Industries Development Authority’s (BCIDA) Joint Training Workshop Series. The workshops, which...

More stringent health and safety standards will be instituted for coconut vendors as the demand for coconut water increases. These include sterilising tools and the worktable, the use of hairnets and aprons,...

The 2018 Magnum Tonic Wine Reggae Beach Party on Sunday night was everything patrons could have wanted. Based on the crowd response from the thousands who gathered at Pirates Cove, Bay Street, St Michael,...

Injuries to national netballers, which saw the Bajan Gems underperforming at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games Down Under in Australia, may be creating even bigger ripples in the current Division...

Paradise were at their irresistible best on Sunday night, inflicting a merciless 8-2 thrashing on their rivals Rendezvous in the Barbados Football Association’s Premier League. Brittons Hill and champions...

The Barbados Hockey Federation (BHF) is planning a tri-nation series to prepare the national women’s team for the forthcoming Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games slated for Barranquilla, Colombia....

The big four are through to the final four. The Co-operators General Insurance Premier League Basketball Knockout Competition certainly stuck to script as all four title contenders advanced with contrasting...

Orson Simpson had to run through all the tricks in his bag to overcome Clifford Nolan and capture the men’s Over-60 crown in the finals of the Barbados National Masters Squash Championships at the Barbados...

This year’s Massy United Apes Hill Ladies International Polo Tournament will feature two of the top female players in the world. This was revealed during a press conference to launch the event at Apes...

AUSTIN, Texas – Former US President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a Houston hospital on Sunday after contracting an infection that spread to his blood, a family spokesman said on Monday. Bush, 93,...

TORONTO – A driver ploughed his white Ryder rental van into a crowd, killing nine people and injuring 16 along a roughly mile-long stretch of busy Toronto sidewalk during lunch hour on a sunny Monday afternoon,...

  If you are scheduled to have surgery this week at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), it may be cancelled.  That’s because at an emergency meeting on Thursday, the surgeons decided it would be...

The Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation will launch a comprehensive anti-violence campaign early next month to address the issue of violence in schools. Themed Peace Begins with...

Family, God and the Golden Rule. They account for the biggest influences in Ralph Thorne’s life. Couple that with discipline and love for basketball and you have the formula for a man on a focused...

MEXICO CITY – Thieves should have their hands chopped off, a Mexican presidential candidate said in a televised debate on Sunday, provoking disbelief from a moderator and setting off a storm of comments...

Fifty years is definitely not fifty days. One couple who knows this full well is Ricardo and Lelia Gibbs, who have been married for 50 years. The now retired couple celebrated their milestone anniversary...

HARARE –  Zimbabwe has established special courts to deal with cases of political violence, the police said on Monday, part of the government’s drive to curtail unrest and intimidation ahead of the first...

President of the National Union of Public Workers Akanni McDowall and general secretary Roslyn Smith have advised the workers of the Supreme Court complex to return home. This follows a meeting this...

Update: The deceased has been identified as Ricardo Archer. Lawmen have another unnatural death on their hands. The body of an 18-year-old male was found in his home at 3rd Avenue Bibby's Lane,...

LONDON –  Kate, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a boy at a hospital in London on Monday, the third child for the British royal couple and now fifth in line to the throne. Kensington Palace...

BEIJING  – China says it’s ready and willing to work with Cuba’s newly elected president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, to expand bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Diaz-Canal, the former first...

PARIS − Air France KLM’s French unit is predicting that 25 per cent of its flights will be cancelled on Monday, on the 10th day of a strike by staff over pay. In a statement on Sunday, the airline...