The West Indian nation stands proud against the debilitating history from which it has emerged and continues to erupt with the inevitability of its dignified independence. But nowhere is this flight from the past and fight for the future more obvious and critical than in the field of cricket. It is here in the Test […]
Author: Stefon Jordan
There were plenty goals and much excitement last weekend as action in the Barbados Hockey Federation’s League Championship continued in the men’s and women’s divisions at the Hockey Center, Garfield Sobers Sports Complex, Wildey, St. Michael Fans were treated to ten goals in a Men’s Division 2 match-up that featured Combermere School and Deacons Hockey Club. […]
GOLD COAST, Australia – Powerhouses Jamaica and Caribbean neighbours Barbados both suffered heavy defeats on the final day of preliminary action at the Commonwealth Games today. The Sunshine Girls predictably went down to World champions Australia 72-51, to suffer their first loss of the competition while Barbados were mauled 85-25 by South Africa to lose […]
A 24-year-old St Michael woman, who had cocaine paraphernalia in her possession, will spend the next three weeks at the Psychiatric Hospital undergoing an assessment. Erica Gabrielle Codrington, of Alkins Land, Eagle Hall, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Douglas Frederick today to having the apparatus while on Bedford Lane, Roebuck Street, The City, yesterday. Police were […]
Diplomat testifies in robbery and indecent assault case A Canadian diplomat today testified in the No 5 Supreme Court to feeling “absolutely terrified” not only for her own life, but that of her family, after she was allegedly robbed and indecently assaulted at gunpoint three years ago. However, under cross examination from the alleged perpetrator […]
The Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is on the verge of embarking on a major initiative to combat biological threats. Speaking yesterday at the annual students’ awards ceremony at the campus, Principal Professor Eudine Barriteau said this project was part of plans to alter the campus’ traditional curriculum in […]
