The Barbados Police Service’s Criminal Investigations Department (District ‘A’) arrested and formally charged a teenager for a recent murder. He is 19-year-old Shem Jarad Mullin of Denton Road, Grazettes, St Michael, who was charged with the murder of Michael Hutson on September 18, 2024. Mullin appeared before Magistrate Alison Burke of the District ‘A’ Traffic Court today, Tuesday, September 24, 2024, and has been remanded to the Barbados Prison Service (Dodds). He is scheduled to reappear on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at the District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court.

Preparation for the world of work and the challenges of life were top of the agenda for the UWI Global Campus and the Sandals Foundation as they assembled some school seniors for a special programme. The Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Challenges programme sponsored by the Sandals Foundation saw the children exposed to several presentations. Wendy Burke tells us more.

FORT- DE- France, Martinique, CMC – A group of special anti-riot police has arrived from France to deal with protests in the French-speaking Caribbean country where violent protests erupted last week over the high cost of living, with gunfire injuring at least six police officers and one civilian. France sent the special anti-riot police to Martinique where protesters have gathered despite the government barring demonstrations in parts of the island. The elite riot police, known as the Companies for Republican Security, were banned in the French territory following bloody riots in December 1959. They had been accused of using disproportionate force against protesters, ending in the deaths of a number of young demonstrators. The force is rarely deployed in French territories in the Caribbean but was called on during riots and strikes in Guadeloupe in 2009.