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Police are probing a fatal hit and run that occurred along Long Bay main road, St Philip in the early hours of Saturday. Lawmen said they were informed via a telephone call to Operations Control Room at about 1:50 a.m of the discovery of a deceased male body along the main road, about 40 meters away […]

Around 300 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on a prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official said. The raid, and a separate ambush on an advance convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari – who was not present – heading to his hometown […]

A norovirus outbreak at a festival in south-west Germany has affected more than 800 people. They caught the vomiting bug in a marquee at the Stuttgart spring festival last weekend. It is not clear how the virus was first contracted, but the scale of infection has increased during the week. Stuttgart officials believe it was […]

Government is on the job when it comes to long-standing complaints from residents of St Joseph on fixing roads, bridges, providing regular bus service and other matters. That’s the word from Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley who also announced on Tuesday night that an agreement with China for 100 buses is expected to ease commuters’ […]

Britain’s King Charles III will resume public duties next week following “a period of treatment and recuperation,” Buckingham Palace announced Friday, two months after revealing that he was being treated for cancer. The 75-year-old monarch will be joined by his wife, Queen Camilla, for a visit to a cancer treatment centre on Tuesday “where they will meet medical […]

Philadelphia 76ers centre Joel Embiid says he is “not a quitter” after producing his best-ever post-season performance, despite dealing with the facial condition Bell’s palsy. Bell’s palsy causes facial muscle weakness or paralysis, affecting the muscles on one side of the face. Embiid scored a play-off career-high 50 points in Philadelphia’s 125-114 win over the New […]

SCARBOROUGH – A 64 year-old British national has been taken to the Scarborough General Hospital, after being attacked by a bull shark on Friday morning, the Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of assembly (YHA), Farley Augustine has said. He said that the visitor, Peter Smith, is “receiving critical care” at the hospital and that […]

The Barbados Association of Administrative Professionals (BAAP) is seeking to add more men to its ranks. President Janet Sealey said the association now covered a wide range of professions so they were lookingfor a few good men. “We are doing a special drive to capture the attention of more men. The thing is, we are […]

All systems are in place for the staging of the inaugural Barbados Reggae Weekend at the National Botanical Gardens from tonight. Ryan Brathwaite, Director of the Barbados Reggae Weekend explained that the shows have generated an overwhelming response from Barbadians and persons as far as Africa. “Bajans are locked onto the events. Not only those […]

Social Activist Marcia Weekes and a number of members of her pressure group, including Caswell Franklyn, Glyne Murray and Kemar Stuart have received what they perceive to be “threatening letters” ordering them to desist from speaking about Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, on a podcast. Confirming to the Weekend Nation that she received three letters […]