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    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Medical marijuana forcing a rethink

    Those senior officers in the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture and the criminal justice system are going to have to rethink how we deal with marijuana. This is evident based on the decision by the Ministry of Health to allow the use of medical marijuana.

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    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Businesses should fund more research

    The late Professor Oliver Headley’s remarkable work in solar energy is something of which all Barbadians must be extremely proud. The work of Professor Leonard O’Garro’s at the Centre for Food Security and Entrepreneurship has also been ground-breaking in many respects.

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    ON THE BALL: Sport can’t pay bills

    I mean, what can you do about it? Yeah it’s unfortunate Barbados had to cancel that four-team netball Test series but sports just don’t take care of the bills around here. And the Wildey Gymnasium has a lot of those to pay.

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    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Build on corporate tax cuts

    A week ago, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley significantly changed the way forward for this country when she gave a Ministerial Statement on how the business sector will be taxed. This was significant in many ways and should benefit all Barbadians.

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    ON THE BALL: Let’s stage Women’s T20 tourney

    Boy I’m sure glad our girls didn’t end up winning the World T20. Otherwise, the previous government’s decision not to support Barbados’ bid to host matches would look way worse than it already does.

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    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Traffic plan sorely needed

    Last week there was heavy promotion of the NIFCA Gala which was held at the Gymnasium of the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex on Sunday from 6 p.m. There was also intense promotion of the national ecumenical church service to mark Barbados’ 52nd anniversary of Independence.

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    ON POINT: Stop the layoff ‘sabotage’

    Name them, Mia! Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley recently charged that she was satisfied there is an element of sabotage related to how some of the layoffs in the public sector are being undertaken.

A THORNY ISSUE – Question is, if not Gayle, who?

22 July 2010

IF NOT Chris Gayle, who? Read More

COZIER ON CRICKET July 17 – WI 'A' team on the up and up

18 July 2010

IT LASTED just a week short of three months, touched four countries spread across the planet and included international matches against five different opponents. Read More

A THORNY ISSUE: Red card for FIFA!

30 June 2010

EVEN if FIFA appears to be the most autocratic sports organisation in the world, the time has come for them to yield to goalline technology. Read More

COZIER ON CRICKET – Another nail in Test coffin

27 June 2010

WHEN the first ball of a decisive Test between the West Indies and the game’s second-ranked team was bowled at Kensington Oval yesterday, Read More

A THORNY ISSUE: Pedigree counts at World Cup

23 June 2010

IS IT likely that a country that has never won it before will lift the World Cup? Read More

COZIER ON CRICKET - End of line for Gayle

20 June 2010

THE theme of despair running through West Indies cricket for a decade and more has never been more blatant than in the current series Read More

A THORNY ISSUE: Don't give up on our boys

16 June 2010

Understandably emotions are running quite high after another West Indies defeat to South Africa. Read More

COZIER ON CRICKET – Pollard dilemma

13 June 2010

IN A WEEK when the sporting world - indeed, the world, period - had ears and eyes only for the football World Cup, Read More

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COZIER ON CRICKET: Aussies, Brits most worthy

15 May 2010

ONCE they hit the back straight, the feature event, for the ICC Twenty20 Trophy, was purely a two-horse race.After jostling for positions out of the stalls and overcoming a few minor bumps over the first furlong, the entrants in the green and gold and the red, white... Read More

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