(SOURCE: BBC) – Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, US media report. His body was discovered at 7:30 local time on Saturday at the facility in New York. The circumstances of his death are unclear. He was reportedly on suicide watch following […]
Category: Death
The man who was stabbed to death at the Cheapside Terminal on Saturday, has been identified as 26-year-old Darian Greaves of Union Hall, St Philip. Police say they were called to the Cheapside Terminal shortly before noon on Saturday to investigate reports of a stabbing. Greaves was reportedly involved in an altercation when the stabbing […]
Police have identified the victim of Saturday’s drowning incident at Brownes Beach, St Michael. He is Errol Thorpe, 75, of Groves, St George. Police said Thorpe was seen floating in the water at around 2:30 p.m. Thorpe was pulled from the water and transported to the QEH where he was pronounced dead.
Two people, including a visitor from the UK, have died following separate drowning incidents at Brownes Beach and Crane Beach on Saturday, police say. One victim, an elderly man, was seen floating in the water at Brownes Beach, St Michael around 2:30 p.m. Police said the man was pulled from the water after he was […]
An elderly man has died following what police say was a drowning incident at Brownes Beach. Police said the incident happened earlier Saturday afternoon. More to come.
(Source – AP): Accident investigators in the Bahamas are conducting underwater surveying and mapping of the site of a helicopter crash that killed West Virginia coal magnate Chris Cline and six other people. The Air Accident Investigation Department of the Bahamas said via Twitter late Friday that salvage teams were “in place at the crash […]
A member of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is taking the party’s executive to task for failing to show up in their numbers at the funeral of former DLP parliamentarian Dr Erskine Simmons. Dr Simmons died at age 82 at the Bayview Hospital, earlier this month, after suffering from an undisclosed illness. Former St Michael […]
The destructive force of fire, last night rendered futile the most valiant efforts by Bush Hall residents to free two of their neighbors from a burning house. Hours after Barbara Ira Forde 82, and her son 53-year-old Carlton Forde perished in a late night blaze, neighbors stood bewildered outside the structure, which less than 24-hours […]
Police are investigating after an elderly woman and her son died in a house fire at a residence located at 1st Avenue, Alleyne Land, Bush Hall, St Michael, Saturday night. Police say the residence, a three bedroom wood and wall house, was destroyed in the blaze around 9:45 p.m. Barbara Ira Forde 82, and her […]
Veteran journalist and Editor Emeritus of the Nation Newspaper Harold Hoyte has passed away. Hoyte, who has a long and distinguished career in journalism, started his profession as a copy writer at the Barbados Advocate in 1959. He later moved to Canada where he worked for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Telegram and editor […]
The Barbadian media fraternity bade farewell Saturday afternoon to Vere Sheldon Walcott – one of its most innovative broadcasters and radio personalities – at the Abundant Life Assembly Church. Walcott died on April 28. He was 68. Walcott was a popular voice on Starcom Network’s Gospel 97.5 FM, lately rebranded LIFE 97.5 FM. He was […]
The broadcasting and journalism fraternity here is mourning once again following the loss of yet another colleague. Media veteran Vere Walcott passed away on Sunday. Barbados TODAY joins in extending sincerest condolences to his relatives, friends and former colleagues.
The entire Caribbean has lost an intellectual giant whose monumental contribution to the integration movement will forever endure in our collective memory. Sir Alister McIntyre devoted his entire life in service to the region. He was an outstanding CARICOM Secretary General as we moved from a Free Trade Association into the Caribbean Community. His mastery […]
“A precious light has gone out in our Caribbean world, with Alister McIntyre’s passing. He had devoted his life to Caribbean unity and was already, as he went, worrying over the darkening of the regional scene that threatens. The Region’s debt to Alister is payable only in a new enlightenment that makes Caribbean oneness the reality for […]
The following statement is issued by the Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles in immediate response to news of the passing of Sir Alister McIntyre, who served as UWI Vice-Chancellor during the period 1988-1998. Shocking is the news that our Sir Alister has passed. Larger than life in his long […]
Prime Minister Mia Mottley says she is deeply saddened to learn of the passing today of one of the Caribbean’s most treasured scholars, Sir Alister McIntyre. Sir Alister, Vice chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), passed away today in Jamaica. He was 87. FULL STATEMENT FROM PRIME MINISTER MOTTLEY I am […]
Police are investigating an unnatural death in Long Beach, Christ Church. Police were called to the area just before 1:30 p.m. on Sunday for reports of a body hanging from a tree. Due to the state of decomposition, police say they unable to give a gender or approximate age of the deceased. They are appealing to […]
