Editorial

Now that the dust around the sentencing of attorney-at-law Vonda Pile has settled, there is perhaps no better time than now for the legal profession to take a long hard…

The daily graphic images from the Northern Bahamas, savaged by a monster hurricane, show extraordinary devastation, an ominous harbinger of massive loss of human life. The death toll is 30…

“I don’t speak, I do.” Prime Minister Mia Mottley, August 2019 Celebrated economist John Kenneth Galbraith is reported to have once written a letter to then US President John F…

For the last quarter of a century at least, we have known that Barbados is a water-scarce country. For decades, the people of the Scotland District, home to the highest…

In case you missed it – and you most certainly did – the ‘storm in a teacup’ over which some Barbadians moaned and grumbled for having prepared against too little…

“He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling. A man must carry knowledge with…

Coming out of our preparations for Tropical Storm Dorian, a clear directive came from Prime Minister Mia Mottley that hardly can anyone disagree – we need to clean up our…

Just a few weeks ago Barbados’ hills and valleys were alive with the sound of music; more to the point – Crop Over music, Barbadian music. The past three months…

After two anxious days, Barbadians can finally exhale as we have yet again been spared the full fury of a severe weather system, Tropical Storm Dorian. Even for the casual…

Today’s release of the 2019 Deloitte Global Human Trend Report offers a thought-provoking insight into how Barbadian businesses, in both private and public sectors, ought to respond to an ever-changing…