UWI Blackbirds and Kickstart Rush marched into the Round of 16 of the Prime Minister’s Cup football competition with big victories last night. Playing at Friendship, the Blackbirds put nine unanswered goals past Pinelands, while Kickstart Rush blanked Barbados Soccer Academy five-nil. CBC’s Anmar Goodridge-Boyce reports.

As we get deeper into the hurricane season, we are hearing calls from a leading engineer for minimum building standards to be enforced. It’s coming from from Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Browne. He says the Barbados National Standards Institution has already established a Building Code for engineers in Barbados. Referring to the new sugarcrete technology, Lieutenant Colonel Browne says there is no need to introduce a new experimental technology when the material used in the region is adequate.

Fishermen are in a race against time. The fishing season is scheduled to start in November and more than half the complement of boats are still on dry dock and not ready for the high seas. When a CBC News crew visited the Bridgetown Fisheries Complex on the Princess Highway today it was a hive of activity, with fisherfolk saying there is a glimmer of hope. Trevor Thorpe reports.