Senator unfazed by “crocodile” tears over restaurant closures Barbados Today04/03/2020152 views Opposition Senator and trade unionist Caswell Franklyn is criticizing Government’s Industrial practices which he says are hurting the working class. An aggrieved Franklyn told Barbados TODAY that senior Government officials,… Read more
‘More transcribers for courts’ Barbados Today04/03/2020055 views The wheels of justice, long slowed by the long-hand transcription of testimony by judges, could continue to speed up as computer-aided transcription (CAT) gets an important boost, according to Registrar… Read more
Land tenure ‘no longer determines water connection’ Emmanuel Joseph04/03/20200112 views Squatters are to be included in a new policy that will no longer require a land owner’s permission to gain a water connecton, Minister of Energy and Water Resource Management… Read more
Frustrated resident wants police to take action Anesta Henry04/03/2020197 views Frustrated Melrose St Thomas resident Beverley Harewood is calling on Government to make indiscriminate burning by householders a criminal offence. Suggesting that police should be given the authority to arrest… Read more
Over to the High Court Barbados Today03/03/20200136 views A man and woman facing separate criminal charges will soon face judge and jury. Magistrate Douglas Frederick informed the two of the development when their matters were called in the… Read more
Trial judge should have freed Ellis after the jury delivered verdict Barbados Today03/03/20200117 views The Court of Appeal said it released former murder accused Pedro Deroy Ellis last November because it was “not convinced” that his continued detention could be “justified”. The 38-year-old Ellis… Read more
#BTEditorial – More in the mortar than on the pestle Barbados Today03/03/20201122 views We do not for a moment dispute the very sobering process by which the owners and management of Chaps restaurants arrived at the decision of their closure. Curiously, the mere… Read more
New employees caught in shock closure Barbados Today03/03/20204143 views One hundred and forty-nine staff members, some of whom were supposed to spend their first day on the job today Monday after leaving their former jobs, have been cut deepest… Read more
Come clean! Barbados Today03/03/20205200 views Four senior Government officials on Monday urged Chaps Restaurants Limited to come clean on its accusation that unfair and excessive taxation by the Mia Mottley administration is among the main… Read more
Cases dismissed against sisters Barbados Today03/03/2020094 views Evidence given by prosecution witnesses was “at war with each other” in court proceedings against two St Michael sisters. As such Magistrate Douglas Frederick dismissed the matters against Shamar Latoya… Read more