Exercise Caribewave 2023 created a buzz across Barbados today as residents, visitors and students took part in several activities executed as part of the annual event.
The exercise is designed to enable the National Emergency Management System and its stakeholders the opportunity to practice and evaluate elements of the national response mechanism in response to the tsunami hazard.
Just after 10:00 a.m.,
Two men who pleaded guilty to robbing a convenience store eight years ago have been ordered to pay a combined $30 000 in fines.Justice Carlisle Greaves recently imposed the sentence on Dwayne Alastair Dyall, of 4th Avenue Harts Gap, Christ Church and Ramon Ricardo Callender, of No 3 Grazettes, New Road, St Michael.The men had pleaded guilty in the No. 3 Supreme Court to entering, as trespassers, First Stop Convenience Store, on July 11, 2014, and stealing $6 195.38 belonging to S and L Management Services Ltd.Senior State Counsel Neville Watson told the court that seven employees were on duty at the business located at Thorpes Main Road, St James on the mentioned date when two masked men entered and robbed the establishment.The culprits then fled but police investigations later led to the two suspects.
Shouts and screams echoed around 8th Avenue Harts Gap, Christ Church earlier today, October 17, when a fire completely destroyed an abandoned house in the area.
Residents who quickly gathered on the scene which was engulfed in smoke from around 10
A derelict wood and wall home went up in smoke in 8th Ave Harts Gap on Monday. Acting station officer Tony Scantlebury said he and eight officers, using two tenders, responded from Worthing and Bridgetown. He expressed concern about such abandoned houses being fire and safety hazards, adding the situation could have been worse given the foliage surrounding the house and the gas bottle inside. This was the second abandoned …