#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
#BTEditorial – Taking a new, high road in calypso, soca Barbados Today07/08/20193319 views We extend congratulations to all the winners in this year’s Crop Over festival, including Betty West and Kevin Small, who took most of the prizes in Grand Kadooment, and in… Read more
#BTEditorial – Las’ lap for a peaceful Crop Over climax Barbados Today03/08/20190278 views We are now on the last lap of the Crop Over Festival and so far, so good. An incident-free climax to our main national festival would be a fittingly happy… Read more
#BTEditorial – Barbados is more than a society; it’s an economy Barbados Today01/08/20194261 views For ten years between 2008 and 2018 the then ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) reminded Barbadians ad nauseam of the obvious, that Barbados was more than an economy, it was… Read more
#BTEditorial – Time to give kaiso’s queens their due Barbados Today30/07/20190565 views In 1985, Adonijah performed his now-classic song Woman, which lamented the negative treatment meted out to women in calypso. He criticized fellow calypsonians who often portrayed women as sex objects.… Read more
#BTEditorial – Is Boris Johnson good for multi-racial, multi-faith Britain? Barbados Today30/07/20190159 views It has now been exactly a week since Boris Johnson became the UK’s new prime minister. Given his huge popularity among the Conservative Party faithful chomping at the bit to… Read more
#BTEditorial – Love thy neighbour Barbados Today27/07/201915249 views As investigators poke through the ashes of Wednesday’s horrific fire, families, friends, coworkers, students, neighbours and other loved ones – and an entire nation – also struggle for answers in… Read more
#BTEditorial – Plumbing the depths of the Cave deal, bring light. Barbados Today25/07/20190224 views “We loyal sons and daughters all Do hereby make it known These fields and hills beyond recall Are now our very own.” – from the National Anthem Barbadians woke up… Read more
#BTEditorial – Protecting a vital industry and learning lessons Barbados Today25/07/20190189 views There was much food for thought emanating from yesterday’s ceremony at the Richard Haynes Boardwalk, Hastings, Christ Church, where the Royal Barbados Police Force received new beach patrol uniforms compliments… Read more