Members of the public are advised that traffic changes have been put in place for Kensington Oval and its environs on the match days of the ICC Cricket Men’s T20 World Cup.

The Traffic Control (ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies, 2024) Rules, 2024, explain that “match day” means the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 20th, 21st, 23rd, and 29th of June, which are the dates matches are scheduled to be played at Kensington Oval.

However, where matches cannot be played on the specified dates above, there are alternative dates of the 3rd, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 22nd, 24th, 25th, and 30th June, as the case may be. The traffic changes on match days, from 6:00 a.m. to midnight, are as follows:

• Fontabelle Road from its junction with H. Jason Jones Complex to its junction with President Kennedy Drive, St. Michael, will be closed to all vehicular traffic.
• Kensington New Road, from its junction with Baxters Road to its junction with Fontabelle Road will be a one-way road, with all vehicular traffic travelling in the direction of Baxters Road.
• President Kennedy Drive from its junction with Westbury Road to its junction with Fontabelle Road will be closed to all vehicular traffic.
• No person shall park any motor vehicle along Princess AIice Highway from its junction with Cowell Street to its junction with Harbour Road.
• Pickwick Gap from its junction with Fontabelle Road to its junction with Westbury Road will be closed to all vehicular traffic, except for a motor vehicle displaying a motor vehicle access pass issued by the Barbados Local Organising Committee.
• All vehicular traffic travelling along the Mighty Grynner Highway towards its junction with Holborn Circle will be diverted right only onto Prescod Boulevard Road.
• No vehicular traffic will be allowed to turn left onto President Kennedy Drive or to proceed onto Fontabelle Road.
• No driver or other person in charge of a motor vehicle shall park or allow the motor vehicle to remain stationary on the following roads or adjoining footpaths in St. Michael, except to pick up or set down passengers. Those roads are:
  • Fontabelle Road from its junction with Lakes Folly to its junction with President Kennedy Drive
  • Pickwick Gap from its junction with Westbury Road to the entrance of Kensington Oval
  • Westbury Road from its junction with President Kennedy Drive to its junction with Baxters Road
  • President Kennedy Drive from its junction with Richmond Gap to its junction with Fontabelle Road
  • Cheapside Road
  • Literary Road
  • Redman Drive
  • Lakes Folly
  • Prescod Boulevard
  • Princess Alice Highway
  • Harbour Road
  • Baxters Road
  • Kensington New Road
  • 10th Avenue, New Orleans
  • Richmond Gap
  • Passage Road
  • Barbarees Hill Road
  • Country Road
  • Roebuck Street from its junction with Country Road to its junction with the James A. Tudor Roundabout
  •   Halls Road
  •   Belmont Road
  •   Martindale’s Road
  •   Eagle Hall Road
  •   Bank Hall Cross Road
  •   Bank Hall Main Road
  •   Mighty Grynner Highway, and
  •  Highway 1 from its junction with Holders Hill to its junction with Tudor Bridge.

Drivers of motor vehicles, pedestrians, riders, or leaders of animals using any of the above-mentioned roads during the times specified in the traffic rules are urged to exercise caution and comply with any order given by a member of The Barbados Police Service in uniform.

Any person who contravenes the traffic rules or fails to comply with any order given by a member of The Barbados Police Service in uniform commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500, or imprisonment for three months, or both. 

These rules do not apply to vehicles used by The Barbados Police Service, the Barbados Defence Force, the Barbados Fire Service, an ambulance service, or any other emergency service. (PR/GIS)

All eyes were fixed to the sky  yesterday as Barbadians witnessed a rare optical phenomenon called a halo that appeared around the sun. The Barbados Meteorological Office explained that is was simply a ring of light that forms around the sun or moon as either of them retracts off ice crystals present in a thin layer of cirrus clouds. A halo is usually a bright white ring but it can have colours just as was visible yesterday.

In the next few hours, today Monday, April 8, the sky will momentarily darken for millions of people in Mexico, America and Canada during the solar eclipse.

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially

For the Caribbean, it is the people in Central Bahamas who will be able to view a partial eclipse primarily in the islands of Exuma Cays, Great Exuma, Cat Island, Rum Cay, San Salvador and Long Island.

It is the first solar eclipse to pass through this area in seven years, with the next one due August 23, 2044 according to NASA

The exact time of the solar eclipse will occur and will vary, depending on the country and the time zone in addition visibility will be dependent on the weather.

For those who are in the path they are reminded that looking directly into the sun is unsafe, as it poses the risk of permanent damage to the eyes resulting in diminished vision, and can bring other optical health complications, such as cataracts and certain eye cancers. So  ‘eclipse glasses’ or solar viewers are highly recommended  to view safely.