Manager of Jamaica senior men's football team, Roy Simpson, said that despite having a better history against Grenada and Barbados, those teams were the best available options to engage in friendly international games at...

Manager of Jamaica senior men's football team, Roy Simpson, said that despite having a better history against Grenada and Barbados, those teams were the best available options to engage in friendly international games at...

At least 7 000 visitors came to Barbados during the just ended Crop Over festival using the growing Airbnb option. The figures made available to THE NATION on Monday by an Airbnb official showed that an...

Small in stature but not in mindset. For the second straight year, bandleader Kevin Small of Fifth Element won the now coveted Robert Weekes Award – Best Festival Designer. This means the band amassed...

Barbadian entertainer Leigh is gearing up to hit the stage in Toronto at the NXNE Showcase during the Taste of the Danforth Festival this weekend. The annual festival celebrates Danforth's Greek heritage...

Reggae/dancehall artiste I-Octane is the latest dancehall act to be included in Magnum Tonic Wine's regional mega stage-show series Magnum Xplosion.The event, which has seen previous stagings in Guyana, Barbados and...

The unstoppable Police Women’s Rugby team seems well on their way to the clinching their fourth 10-a-side title in as many years. The team being led by the talented Nicolette Pantor, a member of the now famous...

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has indicated the Crop Over Festival needs to be re-examined for ways in which it can be improved. Sharing her thoughts on the festival when she made a stop at the Barbados...

Tune Of The Crop belongs to Lil Rick. The hitmaker can claim supremacy this year in the National Cultural Foundation’s Crop Over festival. Musically that is. Apart from the Pic-O-De-Crop competition...

Twice is nice. Designer Kevin Small has once again taken the Robert Weekes Award for Best Festival Designer in the Republic band Grand Kadooment. The young bandleader for Fifth Element brought Street...

The public is advised that as a result of the annual Crop Over Festival the following traffic management changes have been implemented for the respective events:-  Pic-O-De-Crop Finals • There...

"The music was infectious and the fun, insane. Big up Kurt Riley on his birthday," said Alecia, a Barbadian who was partying at Kurt Riley's birthday party, held at 1A Oxford Road in New Kingston last Wednesday.Music was...

IT was a fitting end to Chancellor's Week at the University of the West Indies, Mona. After a week of events and activities, on Sunday Barbadian saxman Arturo Tappin not only closed the curtains, but blew the house...

When Barbadian singer and saxophonist Arturo Tappin played Bill Clinton, a lover and player of the saxophone, the former United States president was "impressed". This was relayed to The Gleaner on Sunday, shortly before...

There will be adequate security in place for the remaining events of this year’s Crop Over Festival. This assurance from Minister of Creative Economy, Culture and Sports John King following pleas from...

It is always good when you can go to a cooler fete and get live performances. Last week Wednesday night at the picturesque and lush lawns of Sugarland Gardens, St Peter, Edwin Yearwood, Peter Ram,...

At 12: 40 a.m. MC Jamarr De Star announced Lil Rick to take his first Sweet Soca title. And it was a hard fought battle for the new Sweet Soca monarch who scored full points of 100. He placed third...

The Oriental Gardens at the University of the West Indies, Mona, will come alive this evening with the sweet sounds of jazz, as the celebrations of the UWI's 70th anniversary come to a close. Barbadian saxophonist Arturo...

Daiquiri Beach was washed in a sea of white as a crowd of nearly 5 000 patrons eagerly awaited the arrival of Bunji Garlin and the Viking Band, and Kes the Band at Tipsy All-White Beach Party held last...

Governor General Dame Sandra Mason headed the list of guests attending opening night of the inaugural Argentine Film Festival in Barbados. The event marked the 202nd anniversary of Argentina’s independence...

Hundreds of partygoers made the trip to the Bushy Park racetrack in St Philip in the wee hours of Sunday morning for We Ting. The jouvert event began just after 2 a.m. and finished on a high note at...

BAJAN saxophonist Arturo Tappin is expected to bring the curtain down on the wTthe UWI's 70th anniversary dubbed 'Chancellor's Jazz Farewell' on Sunday, July 29 at the UWI, Mona's Oriental Gardens. Jamaica's “first...

Barbadian filmmakers will be given the opportunity to showcase their work in Argentina. Argentine Ambassador Gustavo Martinez Pandiani announced that for the first time, two Barbadian filmmakers will...

Like most Bajans I am concerned about the number of shootings in recent times. And why wouldn’t I be? Around this time of year there are major crowds gathering for a number of Crop Over events, limes...

As the Crop Over Festival intensifies, the Roman Catholic Church of Barbados is asking revellers not to go over overboard with their feteing. This comes in connection with the launch of the My Body;...

Management of the Coral Ridge Memorial Gardens is seeking legal guidance as a result of a fracas early Sunday morning on their grounds involving patrons who attended a fete in a quarry nearby which started...