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The Ministry of Health and Wellness is establishing a national climate change and health focal point unit.Minister Ian Gooding-Edghill made the announcement on Tuesday while delivering remarks at the 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference in Washington on the topic, Leveraging Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic to address the Region’s Mental Health Challenges for the Future.He indicated that one of the unit’s first tasks will be to develop and implement a framework for comprehensive vulnerability assessment.Noting that Barbados has been fortunate to benefit from several Pan American...

A plan to acquire and develop 18 parcels of land in the St Lawrence, Christ Church area has triggered concern among residents of that community and surrounding districts who are worried about how it will affect their homes and businesses.Spokesperson for the St Lawrence, Dover and Maxwell Association Adrian Donovan told Barbados TODAY the situation has prompted a town hall meeting for Saturday, which Member of Parliament for Christ Church South Ralph Thorne has confirmed he will attend.The meeting follows a land acquisition notice published in the newspaper last week.That Government notice, is...

A young woman was given a three-year suspended sentence after she admitted to being the lookout during a burglary.Falicia Shauntell Browne’s sentence was ordered by Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell when she reappeared in the No. 4 Supreme Court earlier this week.Browne, of Sunrise Drive, Rices, St Philip and co-accused Akeem Griffith had been charged with entering the dwelling house of Everton Evelyn as trespassers between January 5 and 6, 2015 and stealing $27 000 worth of items including four watches, one camera, one hard drive, 20 bed sheet sets, a blender, soap, eight perfume sets, snacks...

Rashad Maynard today described the man who his brother is alleged to have killed as a “nuisance” who drank heavily and became aggressive.In fact, he said on the day his brother Raheim Hinds struck Michael Yearwood with a stone, Yearwood had “straight pulled” a bottle of rum and was armed with a cutlass.Hinds, of Phillip’s Road, Pinelands, St Michael, today pleaded not guilty to murdering Yearwood on March 26, 2015, when his trial got underway in the No.5A Supreme Court.Maynard, who was 15 at the time of the incident, told the court he knew Yearwood as ‘Bishop’ who operated a tire...

Fed up with a fellow ZR driver trying to prevent him from overtaking, Jerad Brathwaite took matters into his own hand.However, his actions landed him in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, where he admitted to slapping the complainant out of frustration.Brathwaite, of Brereton Village, St Philip, pleaded guilty to assaulting Chad Bishop on September 13, 2022, when the charge was read to him by Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes.In outlining the facts, prosecutor Sergeant Randolph Boyce said both men ply their trade on the Silver Sands route. On the day in question, the complainant ...