If one wanted further evidence that many of our young men – and women – are under siege, it was provided by St Thomas Member of Parliament Miss Cynthia Forde during debate on an amendment to the Offences Against The Person Act in the Lower House yesterday. It has been previously pointed out by the hierarchy of […]
Category: Editorial
A drive or a walk through Brittons Hill, St Michael and surrounding communities since last weekend has yielded a sight for sore eyes. No more derelict vehicles, strewn garbage bags, styrofoam containers, plastic bottles, discarded wood or galvanize, rotten beds, broken televisions, fridges and overgrown bush. For now, Brittons Hill fairly sparkles with cleanliness. Saturday’s […]
For all of the blunders of the last administration in the management of the Barbados economy – and these errors were as multiple as they were near-fatal to the futures of thousands upon thousands of citizens – the Freundel Stuart administration was not half-wrong on this point if no other – Barbados is a society, […]
The construction of a house is a major undertaking and investment for most if not every homeowner in Barbados. And this is true whether that house is to be found in the lofty heights and terraces or in some simple urban or rural village. The comforts might be magnified depending on the financial strength of […]
Minister in the Ministry of Housing, Lands and Rural Development Charles Griffith this week stirred up an age-old but relevant debate about the involvement of fathers in the lives of their children. As Parliament examined legislation to abolish the mandatory death sentence for murder, the St John MP took the debate beyond the obvious issues […]
“The last thing I did was touch my son’s toes and my son wriggle he toes in my hand and when I [went] back my child did [dead]. I am not going to tell you a lie but God hold me from then till now, He tell me ‘don’t cry any more. I take him […]
Magistrate Douglas Frederick has shown himself to be an excellent judicial officer. Indeed, from all reports, Mr Frederick is considered by many in and outside his circles as one of the very best in the country. He not only dispenses justice, but he has demonstrated a willingness to temper justice with mercy when required, and […]
June 1 and the start of the hurricane season may be a distance memory for most, especially with virtually no activity over the last two months. But in rolls September and out goes that false sense of security that we have nothing to worry about. September, historically the most active month of the hurricane season, […]
The 5th century Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea is credited with devising a set of philosophical problems known as Zeno’s paradoxes in support of Parmenides’ doctrine that despite what one’s senses say, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and motion is nothing but an illusion. Parmenides, himself a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, explained in […]
The irony is not lost on us that a tiny nation that shares a unique distinction with Japan as having the highest number of centenarians per capita on earth would not make more noise as it observes Senior Citizens Month. The celebrations in honour of this nation’s builders got off to their usual yawn-filled start […]
Long before there was a United Nations there were children. Long before there was a United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child there were obviously children. The care of children – in most cases – is dictated by love, good instinct, common sense and all those other factors that make parents, guardians and […]
Having lived through the previous ten years of Democratic Labour Party rule and equally experiencing first-hand the first 100 days of the new Mia Mottley-led Barbados Labour Party regime, we cannot in good conscience agree with Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn that the current Government should be issued with a failing grade, or that its performance […]
In legal argument, there’s usually the whole question of reasonable doubt, which, if established, in the absence of very compelling evidence, can ensure that a defendant walks free of a criminal charge. Defence lawyers are therefore known to spend a great amount of their time poking holes in the prosecution’s argument, with a view to […]
Whatever we might think of Prime Minister Mia Mottley, or say about her, no one can reasonably accuse her of lacking creativity. Any attempt to convince us otherwise will be nihilistically futile. For, having given birth to BERT – – seriously, this is how one of Ms Mottley’s economic advisors, the International Monetary Fund economist […]
Domestic violence is a scourge we wish we did not have to keep writing about. But we dare not stay silent while this heinous menace destroys the lives of more of our women, men, and especially our children. It’s no secret that domestic violence is still a worrying problem in Barbados, despite credible strides made […]
Partisan political appointments and dismissals have been part of the experience of pre-independent Barbados. The practice has continued in post-colonial times under the administrations of prime ministers Errol Barrow, Tom Adams, Sir Bernard St John, Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, Owen Arthur, David Thompson and Freundel Stuart. With the traditional media in place and now social […]
The late Carson Small MBE, who died last Thursday morning, was not gifted with sight. And Barbados was all the better for it. Deprived at an early age of this vital sense, he developed one of the most uncannily sensitive abilities any human could possess. For Carson Small listened. He made listening his life’s work […]
