#BTEditorial – Waiting for a COVID-19 cure Barbados Today08/09/2020095 views Vaccination Week from April 25 to May 2 passed this year with hardly a mention. Not surprising because the world was at the time scrambling to craft a response to… Read more
#BTEditorial – Time to light the fire under the EU Barbados Today05/09/2020093 views It has been a battle that Barbados and other offshore financial centres in the Caribbean have been confronting for more than two decades. And finally someone has had the intestinal… Read more
#BTEditorial – Farewell to “The People’s King” Barbados Today04/09/20201107 views “And leh we fight dem fight, together we can make the wrong things right, fight towards the betterment of this land” – Colin “Observer” Reid, 1983 This evening, we learned… Read more
#BTEditorial – Laughing at, in and out of the law courts Barbados Today03/09/2020075 views Make no mistake about it, Barbados’ judiciary is the laughing stock of criminal elements in this country. But every time criminals laugh, law-abiding citizens wail. The appeal court has already… Read more
#BTEditorial – Let’s make Jackie Opel Day meaningful Barbados Today02/09/20201101 views On August 27, Minister of Culture John King, as he addressed the unveiling of a monument at the gravesite of late Barbadian musical pioneer Jackie Opel at the Westbury Cemetery,… Read more
#BTEditorial – No need to feel the fire, we know it burns Barbados Today01/09/2020071 views Poet William Wordsworth reminds us “Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by… Read more
#BTEditorial – Time to speak to the people Barbados Today29/08/2020069 views One of the former Democratic Labour Party administration’s biggest faults, and there were many, was its failure to effectively communicate with the Barbadian public. And while it undertook many programmes… Read more
#BTEditorial – How did our Barbados get here? Barbados Today27/08/2020996 views Perhaps the greatest obstacle to successful law enforcement in Barbados is misguided and unwarranted political meddling in the Royal Barbados Police Force. Add to this a deviation from areas of… Read more
#BTEditorial – Back to school. One day at a time. Barbados Today26/08/2020085 views Back-to-school is foremost on the minds of parents, teachers, students and merchants, even more so as we contemplate the new meaning of school for the 2020-21 academic year in the… Read more
#BTEditorial – Taking action to avoiding a tinderbox Barbados Today25/08/20200106 views It is easy to be a cheerleader for a person one admires, whether they be a family member, a boss, a friend who will be your ride or die partner… Read more