The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) is celebrated across the globe on May 17 to raise awareness on human rights abuses against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender …
Editorial
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More often than not the news of the day it is our bounden duty to report can be simply distressing. Take for example yesterday’s worrying revelations from teachers of organised …
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Prime Minister Mia Mottley some months ago spoke to the nation on the idea of Vision 2020: We Gatherin’. During the launch in February, she urged Barbadians across the globe …
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“Murder, this is murder, teacher under heavy pressure!” – Teacher’s Dilemma, Poonka, 1985 Wayne Poonka Willock, calypsonian-teacher penned Teacher’s Dilemma to lament the problems facing the nation’s teachers -mounting workloads …
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It is not a safe idea in small, independent developing nations such as ours: the notion of a free press. In what has long been considered the freest black nation …
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The revelation in today’s edition of the highly respected Financial Times, further reported on here, is just cause for concern that the rapacious pace at which the Government embarked on …
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Kai Allman, a young secondary school student who is among the hundreds of Barbadians afflicted by asthma, had to be rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Monday night for …
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The sitting Member of Parliament for St Philip North, Dr Sonia Browne, is to be greatly admired. Since defeating Democratic Labour Party heavyweight Michael Lashley to win that seat in …
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Since 1956, Leeward Islands Air Transport, more commonly known now by its acronym, LIAT, has been as much a part of the Caribbean experience as cricket, carnivals and calypso. Yet, …
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Reform, you say? Reform indeed! Let’s all reform. They must not quit The Golden Rule, and I from it will not stray once. That is our need. – “The Old …