#BTEditorial – Thank you, Dale, Kayla, Nathan, Natalie, Jacquon, Jerome Barbados Today17/05/2019192 views More often than not the news of the day it is our bounden duty to report can be simply distressing. Take for example yesterday’s worrying revelations from teachers of organised… Read more
#BTEditorial – Gathering to embrace Prime Minister Mottley’s Vision 2020 Barbados Today16/05/20195123 views Prime Minister Mia Mottley some months ago spoke to the nation on the idea of Vision 2020: We Gatherin’. During the launch in February, she urged Barbadians across the globe… Read more
#BTEditorial – Who’s the boss? Barbados Today15/05/2019766 views “Murder, this is murder, teacher under heavy pressure!” – Teacher’s Dilemma, Poonka, 1985 Wayne Poonka Willock, calypsonian-teacher penned Teacher’s Dilemma to lament the problems facing the nation’s teachers -mounting workloads… Read more
#BTEditorial – Harold Hoyte, happy warrior Barbados Today14/05/20190117 views It is not a safe idea in small, independent developing nations such as ours: the notion of a free press. In what has long been considered the freest black nation… Read more
#BTEditorial – $54 million is a lot of beans Barbados Today11/05/20198138 views The revelation in today’s edition of the highly respected Financial Times, further reported on here, is just cause for concern that the rapacious pace at which the Government embarked on… Read more
#BTEditorial – When the smoke gets in your lives Barbados Today09/05/20193125 views Kai Allman, a young secondary school student who is among the hundreds of Barbadians afflicted by asthma, had to be rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Monday night for… Read more
#BTEditorial – Sound advice, Dr Browne, hold your ground! Barbados Today09/05/2019496 views The sitting Member of Parliament for St Philip North, Dr Sonia Browne, is to be greatly admired. Since defeating Democratic Labour Party heavyweight Michael Lashley to win that seat in… Read more
#BTEditorial – LIAT is vital. Make it viable Barbados Today08/05/2019592 views Since 1956, Leeward Islands Air Transport, more commonly known now by its acronym, LIAT, has been as much a part of the Caribbean experience as cricket, carnivals and calypso. Yet,… Read more
#BTEditorial – Reform first for growth Barbados Today06/05/2019273 views Reform, you say? Reform indeed! Let’s all reform. They must not quit The Golden Rule, and I from it will not stray once. That is our need. – “The Old… Read more
#BTEditorial – Outward stretch, inward reach on World Press Freedom Day Barbados Today04/05/2019065 views We live in truly interesting times. Whether it is the effects of climate change, a measles outbreak or the mishandling of a great nation’s economy, there is ample evidence that… Read more