COP: Beware of division in the Force
The island’s top cop today warned of forces within the ranks of the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) seeking to cause division, as he announced the first round of appointments in six years. Amid...
View ArticleKilling stuns Belleview
Some residents of Belleview, Waterford, St Michael are shocked and fearful after one of their own was murdered in the community late last night. Police say they are continuing investigations into the...
View ArticleNear death
A rapid decline in the relationship between short-term roommates has left one nursing injuries and the other facing a police investigation. Transgender Alexa Hoffmann claimed a young man for whom she...
View ArticleDPP warns new officers about changing nature of crime
Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Donna Babb-Agard is warning of a new type of criminal who is prepared to take extraordinary risks, which will impact on the way police perform their functions....
View ArticleBizarre altercation
Forty-seven-year-old Patrick O’Neal Pilgrim will appear in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court tomorrow charged with serious bodily harm, following a bizarre altercation at Phillips Road, Pineland, St...
View ArticleDisgraceful act!
Extremely disturbing! This is how Minister of Education Ronald Jones is categorizing a recent viral video showing someone identified as a local secondary school teacher masturbating. As a matter of...
View ArticleShooting rocks Thomas Gap
Gunfire rocked the community of Thomas Gap, President Kenny Drive, St Michael early last night, leaving residents feeling a sense of dread. According to police, no one was injured during the shooting...
View ArticleStabbed to death!
Carla Springer-Jordan had a premonition last night that something had gone terribly wrong with her mother, Laura Springer, but she ignored her intuition. As it turned out, her gut feeling became a...
View ArticleLiving in fear
Residents of one St Philip community say they are living in fear, following a “horrific” early morning aggravated burglary last weekend that left one elderly resident hospitalized with broken limbs....
View ArticleWorkers left shaken after shooting incident at Bulkeley Plantation
Labourers employed at Bulkeley Plantation, St George say they are on high alert after two men committed a daring daylight robbery yesterday, which resulted in manager Charles Bynoe nursing a gunshot...
View ArticleCutlass attack
A feud that began two weeks ago between two fourth form male students of Ellerslie Secondary School escalated into a bloody, butchery affair today, with a 17-year-old student losing a finger, another...
View ArticleMurders up
The Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) is reporting a drop in the rate of crime so far this year when compared to the corresponding period last year, although there was a slight rise in the number of...
View ArticleMore police scrutiny
Against the backdrop of recent reports of lawmen who have run afoul of the law, the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) will be stepping up its lie detector testing within the Force. “As a matter of...
View Article‘A very sad day’
A man well loved and respected by all. This is how friends and relatives are remembering 31-year-old police constable Shane Welch, who was stabbed to death outside his Kingsland, Christ Church home...
View ArticleFormer AG says alleged assault of top cop deeply worrying
Shadow Attorney General Dale Marshall wants the full force of the law to come down on a man accused of assaulting Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith last weekend. Marshall said the alleged assault...
View ArticleToo rowdy
Police are probing an altercation yesterday between a public service vehicle (PSV) conductor and three male students along the main road at Paynes Bay, St James. It is alleged that the three students...
View ArticleNo troublemaker
The father of the young man who was stabbed to death in the River Bus Terminal yesterday is insisting his son was not the aggressor. As a matter of fact, Michael Gooding of Ellerton, St George said...
View Article‘My sheep gone!’
“I want my sheep back!” This is the cry today of small farmer Cheryl Phillips who said she was robbed of five of her precious livestock by unknown larcenists sometime between yesterday evening and the...
View ArticleHusband apologizes
Murder accused Applon Ishmael Ithamar Parris today apologized for publicly embarrassing his wife when he sent out an “obscene” video of her via an electronic device on March 26, the same day he...
View ArticleMajor drug seizure at Bridgetown Port
Authorities at the Bridgetown Port on Thursday intercepted a vehicle laden with 465.7 lbs of cannabis. The seizure was reportedly made around 12:15 p.m. As a result, two Barbadian males are currently...
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