Attorney General Dale Marshall recently announced that the pool of judges available to adjudicate criminal and civil matters in Barbados’ Court of Appeal and High Court would be increased. The …
Editorial
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Not too long ago, the definition was extremely simple: “gender” meant “the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between masculinity and femininity”. It initially focused primarily on physical make-up, …
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One of the greatest social observers of the Victorian era – an age in which life was nasty, brutish and short – once remarked: “A great man shows his greatness …
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Now that the dust around the sentencing of attorney-at-law Vonda Pile has settled, there is perhaps no better time than now for the legal profession to take a long hard …
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The daily graphic images from the Northern Bahamas, savaged by a monster hurricane, show extraordinary devastation, an ominous harbinger of massive loss of human life. The death toll is 30 …
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“I don’t speak, I do.” Prime Minister Mia Mottley, August 2019 Celebrated economist John Kenneth Galbraith is reported to have once written a letter to then US President John F …
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For the last quarter of a century at least, we have known that Barbados is a water-scarce country. For decades, the people of the Scotland District, home to the highest …
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In case you missed it – and you most certainly did – the ‘storm in a teacup’ over which some Barbadians moaned and grumbled for having prepared against too little …
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“He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling. A man must carry knowledge with …
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Coming out of our preparations for Tropical Storm Dorian, a clear directive came from Prime Minister Mia Mottley that hardly can anyone disagree – we need to clean up our …