#BTEditorial – The simple economics of shopping – had we listened Barbados Today04/04/202011141 views This third day of April, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty, was, in the long and storied history of our island nation, not our finest hour.… Read more
#BTEditorial – Employers, dismiss workers at your peril Barbados Today02/04/20202108 views It has now been four months since the first case of novel coronavirus in China was reported. Now renamed COVID-19, it has had a crippling effect on most industries and… Read more
#BTEditorial – The bitter medicine of truth Barbados Today24/03/20201125 views The Greek playwright Aeschylus once observed: “In war, the first casualty is truth.” And in the thousands of years since, those words have come true repeatedly in conflict after conflict.… Read more
#BTEditorial – The virus is the disease, not people Barbados Today21/03/20200103 views A reader shared with us her experience while shopping on Thursday at a popular outlet around 3 p.m. To protect her identity let’s call her Ms C. She says the… Read more
#BTEditorial – Sport. It takes a virus to remind us we need it Barbados Today20/03/20200107 views The world of Sport has ground to a screeching halt since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic earlier this month. Almost every major… Read more
#BTEditorial – Digging deep to survive a COVID-19 national shutdown Barbados Today19/03/20203110 views It was only a matter of time before Barbados recorded its first cases of COVID-19, the illness which has disrupted the lives of people all across the world since the… Read more
#BTEditorial – Keep calm and carry on Barbados Today18/03/20202135 views Barbados woke up to the dreaded but inevitable news this morning. The coronavirus, COVID-19 had made its unwelcomed visit to our shores. And it didn’t only capture one patient, but… Read more
#BTEditorial – Let good go viral Barbados Today17/03/20204141 views “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into… Read more
#BTEditorial – Keeping our hands clean Barbados Today14/03/2020393 views In a matter of days, the coronavirus COVID -19 has moved from being a distant threat to a real possibility here. Since Jamaica declared its first imported case on Tuesday,… Read more
#BTEditorial – No doubt, no fear Barbados Today13/03/2020163 views The spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) threatens the world with a social and economic lockdown. Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has reported that there are… Read more