Editorial #BTEditorial – Time to give kaiso’s queens their due by Barbados Today 30/07/2019 written by Barbados Today 5 min read 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. … Continue Reading 30/07/2019 0 comments FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Editorial #BTEditorial – Is Boris Johnson good for multi-racial, multi-faith Britain? by Barbados Today 30/07/2019 by Barbados Today 30/07/2019 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 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Editorial #BTEditorial – Love thy neighbour by Barbados Today 27/07/2019 by Barbados Today 27/07/2019 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 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Editorial #BTEditorial – Plumbing the depths of the Cave deal, bring light. by Barbados Today 25/07/2019 by Barbados Today 25/07/2019 “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 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Editorial #BTEditorial – Protecting a vital industry and learning lessons by Barbados Today 25/07/2019 by Barbados Today 25/07/2019 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 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Editorial #BTEditorial – How realistic are ‘big hotel’ proposals? by Barbados Today 24/07/2019 by Barbados Today 24/07/2019 “There are more questions than answers, and the more I find out the less I know.” – More Questions than Answers, Johnny Nash In Government’s continuing efforts to rebuild our … Read more FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Editorial #BTEditorial – The wide sargassum sea – crisis and chance by Barbados Today 22/07/2019 by Barbados Today 22/07/2019 Ever since sargassum seaweed started washing up on the shores of this island, Barbados has been faced with the dilemma of viewing the stinking clumps of algae as either an … Read more FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Editorial #BTEditorial – Tackling the traffic menace by Barbados Today 20/07/2019 by Barbados Today 20/07/2019 The time for Barbadians to park their cars and carpool – or, better yet, ride bicycles – has arrived. There are simply too many vehicles on the road! The kinds … Read more FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Editorial #BTEditorial – We need more parks by Barbados Today 19/07/2019 by Barbados Today 19/07/2019 The National Botanical Gardens, to be opened later this year, represent perhaps the single greatest exercise in civic works for the sake of recreational but non-athletic, non-sporting activity in over … Read more FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Editorial #BTEditorial – Reading Dickey has brought pleasure to many bookworms by Barbados Today 18/07/2019 by Barbados Today 18/07/2019 When Hollis Chalkdust Liverpool produced his classic calypso Too Much Quacks more than three decades ago, his target was principally fellow artistes who he believed were doing the art form … Read more FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail