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Minister of the Third Sector Colin Jordan has encouraged religious leaders to access the government’s Faith-Based Organisation Special Fund Grant Facility, saying churches are well placed to address growing challenges …

The government is to begin a nationwide accessibility drive with an audit and improvement project at Parliament Buildings, as efforts intensify to give people with disabilities greater access to public …

A Christ Church business owner who denied stealing $2 000 and a vehicle valued at $10 000 has been granted $4 000 bail. Barry Antonio Luke of Kingsland Gardens pleaded …

The Barbados Agricultural Society has rejected suggestions that former chief executive James Paul was abruptly dismissed or deliberately locked out of a recent membership meeting. Amid mounting speculation, BAS President …

Three police witnesses testified in the No. 4 Supreme Court on Monday in a trial involving an allegedly illegal firearm and ammunition. Miguel Leslie Alpha Bobb-Blackman, 24, of Spruce Street, …

A 16-year-old boy held on remand at Dodds Prison since December last year on firearm charges was released on Monday after the High Court ordered his immediate bail following a …

A nine-year-old boy was reportedly fighting for his life on Monday after being rescued from a devastating early Sunday fire at a Maynards, St Peter, apartment, as fire officials warned …

Grieving families should see faster access to burial and cremation warrants after the government and funeral directors agreed on emergency measures to clear a backlog of bodies awaiting release, officials …

The nation’s largest credit union has welcomed long-awaited state-backed deposit insurance as the measure that will finally remove commercial banks’ competitive advantage, saying it is now positioned to lend more …