#BTEditorial – Beyond Rock Hall Barbados Today20/08/20190209 views “De horse run way long time ago now you come to shut de door” – from “Hard Ears”, Romeo, 1992. As the matter of the illegal housing settlement at Rock… Read more
#BTEditorial – Tales of a grim discovery Barbados Today20/08/20196340 views The discovery of a magnificent aqueduct at Fort George by the Barbados Water Authority is, ultimately, not so much triumph but tragedy exposed. Successive governments of Barbados, both colonial or post-independence versions, have… Read more
#BTEditorial – Everything is right about focusing on our youth Barbados Today17/08/20191291 views Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s decision to expand and invest more in the Barbados Youth Service – soon to be rebranded the Barbados Youth ADVANCE CORPS – could be the defining… Read more
#BTEditorial – Lessons from the life of Gordon Barbados Today16/08/20190274 views Amid all the big and small happenings in Barbados this week, one development, perhaps missed by most and dismissed by some, leaves us with some startling truths and timely lessons.… Read more
#BTEditorial – Gratuitous nonsense dressed in contrived necessity Barbados Today15/08/20190383 views This is not the month of March but madness of unprecedented proportions has just been visited upon Barbados smack in the middle of August. And before it becomes a constitutional… Read more
#BTEditorial – When you start wrong… Barbados Today14/08/201917228 views “When you start wrong, you end wrong.” – Traditional Barbadian saying All human beings have three most basic needs – food, clothing and shelter. Barbadians have in every age sought… Read more
#BTEditorial – The youth our hope and glory Barbados Today13/08/20190166 views For too many times this year, and for all the wrong reasons, young people have made front-page news in Barbados. Too often the story has been a recurring theme of… Read more
#BTEditorial – We say we’re open for business. Time we prove it. Barbados Today10/08/20190232 views In recent months, several Government officials have been singing the common refrain from the same hymn sheet: Barbados is back, Barbados is open for business. And certainly, today’s revelation from… Read more
#BTEditorial – No place for judging the mentally ill Barbados Today09/08/20192211 views It is easy from our armchairs to judge the deaths of two infants and their father in an apparent murder-suicide. The children will never be able to become the grownups… Read more
#BTEditorial – Mediocrity might be palatable when swallowed quickly Barbados Today08/08/20191212 views There is perhaps no other endeavour that Caribbean people now appear to accept more readily than cricketing mediocrity. Regional politicians frequently challenge our cricketers to sit at the head of… Read more