#BTEditorial – Ending our plastic love affair Barbados Today24/01/20192270 views For more than a year, Barbadians have had to wean themselves off plastic bags. In another two months, our divorce from single-use plastics will become final. From April 1, the… Read more
#BTEditorial – Barbados expects Barbados Today23/01/20190403 views The Caribbean is a natural magnet for some of the world’s wealthiest and most well-heeled people. From Oprah to one or two ex-presidents of the United States or prime ministers… Read more
#BTEditorial – Time to revisit NIS rules re the self-employed Barbados Today22/01/20190325 views Employment followed a basic pattern 50 years ago. People left school, went into a company or the public service and stayed in their chosen profession until retirement. Sometimes they stayed… Read more
#BTEditorial – PM Mia Mottley showing that inertia is not an option Barbados Today18/01/20197352 views If there is one thing that can be said about Prime Minister Mia Mottley thus far, it is that she is not afraid to make tough decisions. Following a violent… Read more
#BTEditorial – End child alcohol and drug abuse Barbados Today17/01/20191499 views The revelations about the high use of alcohol and illicit drugs among our school children are enough to make any right-thinking adult shudder. Admittedly, the fact of child drug abuse… Read more
#BTEditorial – Too much posturing and lip-service on crime Barbados Today16/01/201924367 views If Barbadians are not yet aware that gun-related crime in this country is now at a crisis stage, then we are inhabited by a legion of Rip Van Winkles. And… Read more
#BTEditorial – Is the Transport Authority the final answer to our public transport challenges? Barbados Today15/01/20190451 views Did the Government of the day move too fast when it got rid of the bus concessionaires and inadvertently created a public transportation model with no real sense of organization… Read more
#BTEditorial – GSC – please send it to the bin Barbados Today14/01/20199364 views It should be clear to anyone who has lived, breathed and had their being in this country since the early 1990s that the International Financial Institutions have been trying relentlessly… Read more
#BTEditorial – Mr Cameron has a lot to explain on the Richard Pybus issue Barbados Today11/01/20192332 views Yet again president of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Dave Cameron has presided over another gaffe. This time it is the controversial appointment of Englishman Richard Pybus to the position of… Read more
#BTEditorial – Ending the ‘Eleven-plus’ ritual Barbados Today10/01/201912347 views As primary school class four students, fresh from the Christmas holiday break, prepare for the Barbados Secondary School Entrance Examination, commonly known as the Common Entrance Examination, in May, comes… Read more