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  • Barbados to lead the Caribbean Tourism Organization following election in the Cayman Islands

  • “One year later, still no fuel ease” by Sen. Ryan Walters

  • Free eMail with your CIBC account may be phased out, creating hardships for average Bajans and Small Businesses

  • Sterling Service saves the day for Cafe 195 by Richelle Lavine (On The Scene)

  • Longest-serving Commonwealth Secretary-General dead at 95

  • BWA Completes Repair Work on the Damaged Main Which Was Not Affecting the Northern Distribution System

LGBTQ

  • The illumination of the Embassy coincides with two important turning points in the fight for LGBTQI+ rights: June 26, the anniversary of the historic Obergefell v. Hodges U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2015, which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples; and June 28, which marks the anniversary of the start of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which catalyzed the gay rights movement.
    June 26, 2021

    Pride Month Illumination of Bridgetown U.S. Embassy

  • Laws that criminalize consensual same-sex intimacy still exist in more than sixty countries across the globe -- and in most instances these laws are sustained by Church doctrine. The first Intimate Conviction conference in 2017 brought together many voices from across the globe to discuss the role of the church in maintaining these anti-sodomy statutes and to make recommendations on how to achieve righteous justice.
    December 4, 2020

    Barbadian clergy make sensible call for end to buggery laws

  • Anika Gray (MPP 2014) is a trained lawyer who was working in Jamaica on human rights litigation issues with an organisation called AIDS-Free World before coming to do the MPP.
    November 16, 2020

    Abuse of Power and the Constitutional Obligations of Private Companies

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    December 5, 2019

    Challenge to anti-sodomy law in Jamaica heard by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

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    August 2, 2019

    PROMINENT BAJAN JUSTICE URGES COLLEAGUES TO QUESTION THEIR REASONING IN HANDING DECISIONS

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    July 30, 2019

    Two gay men exiled from Caribbean nation challenge draconian ‘buggery’ and ‘gross indecency’ laws

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    November 19, 2018

    HIGHEST CARIBBEAN COURT STRIKES DOWN GUYANA’S CROSS-DRESSING LAW

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    October 27, 2018

    Highest Caribbean Court to Rule on Guyana’s Cross-Dressing Law

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    February 16, 2017

    ‘Coco Cartier’ Stabbed and Slashed?

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