BEWARE, MILD LANGUAGE: The intended Press Conference for two o’clock this afternoon evaporated like the DLP’s claims it would not have job cuts like Greece, so where is Estwick now? Why di…
If one watches Rick Mercer or Jon Stewart with regularity you realise these dudes when looking at the inefficiencies of Government will rake their claws on the ruling side with equal alacrity as those…
Did you watch the Mark Ruffalo and Jesse Eisenberg mystery “Now You See Me?” It was a marvellous study of illusions worthy of David Copperfield, mentalists sharper than Krespin and why tri…
Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited {RBBL} has set aside $500,000 BBD to help various charities between now and September this year. This was recently revealed at a celebration of recipients from the RBB…
When it was announced that Kamau Brathwaite won the 16th edition of the Frank Collymore Literary Endowments, my first thought was if this is a programme to encourage upcoming talent for Barbadian Lite…
By María Cristina Caballero Special to the Harvard News Office Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked aroun…
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently reported that child marriage and the rates of young girls becoming pregnant at tender ages have increased in the Caribbean over the last few years. …
Barbados’s recent economic performance has been deemed as commendable given the unprecedented recession in the markets for our tourism and traded services. {EDITOR’s NOTE: Barbados is look…
Sinckler and the DLP just do not know! Do you think if they did, the deficit would keep increasing or they would be borrowing loans to payback loans they already borrowed? You do not call a media conf…
In recent years, I have basically centered on the research of historical and cultural relations between Haiti and its neighbors. First, on the rich cultural trans-Caribbean exchange through its border…
“There is something bigger than fact; the underlying spirit – all it stands for; the mood, the vastness, the wildness.” (Emily Carr, Canadian artist and icon [1871 – 1945]) …
All during 2013, the country was force to conclude that Donville Inniss might have been assigned a role by Cabinet and the DLP – as “Mascot and political bully” and given free-reign …
My fellow Citizens, Residents and Friends, I greet you at the dawn of this New Year and I do so trusting that you have a new perspective on what is possible during this year of our Lord 2014, recogniz…
While the public and workers’ interest require them to be focussed and to have the capacity to take a rifled and clinical approach towards representation and providing sound leadership on issues…
This year proved significant for Barbados in some positive ways and if paid the correct attention, can be a Way Fwd from the current fiscal morass we’re enduring… Culture in the form of Th…
2013 was not a good year for any of the 14 independent member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) – not even for three of the four commodity-exporting nations Belize, Guyana and Suriname…
As we celebrate the birth of the Christ child, we at BARP extend to our many members and friends in Barbados and the Diaspora and to our regional colleagues, the wish for a most blessed Christmas and …
Fellow Barbadians at home and overseas. It gives me great pleasure to address you at this time of the year as we are preparing to celebrate the birth of the infant Jesus who was born on Christmas Day …
I have come this morning to alert Barbadians that we are in a crisis and that we cannot keep burying our heads in the sand. Barbadians have been allowed to engage in a debate this week that would sugg…
Caribbean literature will be in the local spotlight when poet and critic Margaret D. Gill launches, Rich Man in His Castle, Poor Ones Take the Street: Integrating the ‘Canonical’ Text &…
My Fellow Citizens and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis, good evening. It is with a great sense of melancholy that I am compelled to address you tonight. I do so in my official capacity as Leader of H…
Nelson Mandela, a revered world statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of its dark days of apartheid, has died, President Jacob Zuma announced. He was 95, according …
You can excuse the DLP if it did not care to read the ‘National Strategic Plan 2005-2025.’ But Goal #6 of that document speaks, in part, to: “Branding Barbados Globally.” When …
In my view, there is no doubt that far better can be done to ensure Barbados is under better administration – in fact, I would go so far as to say that when the late Sir Richie Haynes created th…
BEWARE, MILD LANGUAGE: The intended Press Conference for two o’clock this afternoon evaporated like the DLP’s claims it would not have job cuts like Greece, so where is Estwick now? Why di… 
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