BARBADIANS ARE BEING asked to rally around Alana Herbert who is currently vying to be the 2017 Toronto Carnival Guide cover girl.  The 22-year old is the only Bajan in the mix of 23 other regional...

Rihanna has helped a fan overcome heartbreak.The 29 year-old singer received a direct message on Twitter from a fan asking how to get over a particularly upsetting break-up. The Work hitmaker took the time to respond,...

STARCOM NETWORK CROP OVER CITY will be in your face and in your ears throughout this year’s festival. The venture will be taking the Crop Over spirit to a radio audience, those online and the traditional...

Rihanna is calling on fans around the world to donate to the Global Partnership for Education's efforts to help provide quality education to some 870 million children in 89 countries. Global Partnership for Education is...

THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED Banks Barbados International Masters Football Festival is said to have pumped about $2 million into the economy over the past few weeks. This is according to tournament secretary...

THE CURTAIN HAS come down on the Ninth European Film Festival being hailed as the most extensive collection of European films to be shown in Barbados to date. People involved in various areas of the...

Jade Rodriguez felt her anxiety rise with every step. Her heart pounded, and her stomach constricted. The masses of people around her didn’t help ease the claustrophobia she suddenly felt. She was having an anxiety...

EIGHTEEN MATCHES WILL be played at four venues in Over-40 and Over-50 age groups when the 21st annual Banks Barbados International Masters Football Festival kicks off today at 2 p.m. Representatives...

MORE THAN 800 visitors are expected in the island for this weekend’s 21st annual Barbados International Masters Football Festival. The festival will welcome 22 overseas teams, including participants...

THE 2017 EDITION of the Barbados On The Water Festival launched yesterday at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. It kicked off in the usual style with good drink, positive words and signature entertainment...

FOR THE FIRST time, Bunji Garlin and Fay-Ann Lyons will grace the 1Love stage with Machel Montano this Crop Over season. That announcement was made earlier today as the partial line-up for the concert...

THERE WILL BE no King or Queen of the Crop for Crop Over 2017. And once again there will be no Cohobblopot. However, after “intense discussion” on threatened action, there will be an $80 000 increase in...

GOSPELFEST 2017 officially kicked off yesterday with producer Adrian Agard thanking God and Barbadians for their suppport of the 25-year-old festival. Conceptualised as a tourist attraction in 1993,...

“HE GOT THE festival fever. He got the fever fuh true.” The HOTT 95.3 FM Mega Cavalcade might not have been mega in terms of crowd size but those who turned out at Checker Hall, St Lucy, on Friday...

CAVE SHEPHERD ALL STARS is moving ahead with confidence this year as they try to keep the calypso crown on their heads. Last year they copped the monarchy with Aziza who will be leading the other 14...

RIHANNA MADE HER first appearance at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night and also debuted some pieces from her jewellery collaboration with Chopard. Rihanna has teamed with Caroline Scheufele,...

Singer Richie Stephens received an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Pop Award at that company's 34th annual show held at The Wiltern in Hollywood, California, Thursday night.The 50-year-old...

A palette of acrylic, an airbrush, and his brushes are all Wedlear Eugene needs to make him happy. And he’s turned what for him was once just a passion into a business, as owner of Eugene’s Portrait Gallery....

THIS YEAR’S Beach Culture World Tour and Waterman Festival isn’t only about getting wet. Along with some of the best surfers from around the world riding the island’s waves, beach cricket and carnival...

Business-oriented cable channel Business Access Television (BATV) recently sealed an exclusive partnership with Yello Media Jamaica as an exclusive seller of BATV's suite of products, at the Yello head office.BATV is...

A CADRE OF top-class drivers are being shortlisted for the second Barbados Festival Of Speed later this year. Operations manager at Bushy Park Circuit Inc. (BPCI), Amy Willis, told a press briefing...

Preparations are now in high gear for the 13th staging of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) to be held in Barbados from August 17-27.Under the theme 'Asserting Our Culture, Celebrating Ourselves', more than 3,000...

A SPIRIT OF nostalgia infused the atmosphere at the Dover Sports Complex in Christ Church last Thursday evening when local organisers of the Oldie Goldies World Cricket Festival 2017 put on an exhibition...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Acting Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados Cleviston Haynes has announced changes to the monetary policy as the Government seeks to address the situation of the size of the deficit...

(BRIDGETOWN, May 9, 2017) The Canadian Government-funded project Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT Justice) hosted a meeting on Thursday, April 27th, to discuss the formation of a Community Mediation...

West Indies have announced an unchanged 13-man squad for the third and decisive Test against Pakistan in Dominica. Fresh from winning a stunning 107-run victory in the second Test which ended last Thursday at Kensington...