Mixed fortunes as Bajans slip up
Barbados enjoyed mixed fortunes on the second day of competition in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad yesterday. The Bajans defeated Suriname 4-2 but lost to Guatemala 4.5-1.5 and went under to El Salvador...
Barbados enjoyed mixed fortunes on the second day of competition in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad yesterday. The Bajans defeated Suriname 4-2 but lost to Guatemala 4.5-1.5 and went under to El Salvador...
Heavy rain in the south-east of the island and a downpour at 12:20 p.m. yesterday caused the abandonment of the final of the Masters Over-40s Cricket Competition at Foursquare Oval, St Philip. Play...
The People’s Party for Democracy and Development (PdP) wants the Mia Mottley administration to go back to the people. In a press conference yesterday at the Opposition Leader’s office at Worthing,...
Government’s recruitment of 95 Ghanaian nurses has received support from some bodies, including the Barbados Nurses Association (BNA). However, president Joannah Waterman is reminding the authorities,...
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Meet Sir Claude Auchinleck.
Key Point: Rommel was clever, but not unbeatable. Here is how he was bested by one of Britian's finest.
British Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery has gone down in history as the victor of El Alamein and the relentless nemesis of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Nazi Germany’s famed “Desert Fox.” But Monty’s feat was merely a repeat of that of the British general who preceded him, a general who defeated Rommel not once, but twice. Читать дальше...
One might think that legislative Democrats would be contrite about brazenly carrying water for a public-sector union once again. But one would be wrong.
Facilitating student learning, not protecting a monopoly system from competition, should be the purpose of state educating spending.
This is not just an economic necessity, but a health imperative.
Bipartisan group warns that President Trump will not accept the 2020 election results, but their solutions are even worse.
Has anybody been watching the news?
Reaves and Lehner thumb noses at the national anthem
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, at Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9.
The 32nd special session of the Nevada Legislature was marked by uneven management, with chambers sitting empty during the day and hearings that stretched well past midnight.
Gov. Steve Sisolak has bestowed kingly powers upon himself because he thinks the coronavirus requires acting like your parent.
The news that Brits have happily sipped and munched their way through £43million of tea, coffee and biscuits during the lockdown made me laugh.
There's a natural distance people like to keep between themselves and others. With "physical distancing", we now think differently about personal space. In stories and music, Ben considers what it's like to be too close for comfort.
Dave becomes the neighbourhood’s de facto dogwalker - walking and caring for six neighbourhood dogs.
Choral music inspired by the stars, the moon and the sun; along with a pair of motets that are truly "out of this world." Hear ORA Singers' new recording of Spem in Alium, by Thomas Tallis; along with the brand new Forty Part Motet they commissioned from the great living Scottish composer James MacMillan. Other choirs include Voces8, Vancouver Cantata Singers, The Flirtations and the Lorelei Ensemble.