Friday, April 19, 2024

Commentary

Let’s clean up for World Cup

LAST WEEK I spoke about the sad look of Fontabelle, St Michael. The week before that,  I highlighted a sorry, “pop down”-looking Bridgetown which is in dire need  of a...

Boyce joins sub-45 club to qualify for Worlds

Barbadian DeSean Boyce may have booked his ticket to Budapest, Hungary, for the 2023 World Athletics Championship. Boyce, 21,...

Atherley: Continue to seek new levels of achievement

Message by Leader of the Opposition Bishop Joseph J.S. Atherley on the occasion of Barbados’ 55th anniversary of Independence Fellow Barbadians,...

Atherley: Let’s work together

Following is an edited version of the New Year's Message by Leader Of The Opposition, Bishop Joseph J....

CTUSAB: Remain committed to a united labour front

New Year’s message by Dennis De Peiza, general secretary of CTUSAB “As the new year 2021 commences, the Congress...

EDITORIAL: Painful times must not be in vain

The economic medicine is bitter, but it has been a necessary part of the measures required to help this country recover from the financial...

Time for lifting of Cuba embargo

NEXT WEEK THERE will be midterm elections in the United States. The interest is not as high, nor is the outcome as consequential as...

OFF CENTRE: Unfamiliar words? Unfamiliar Bajans!

EKE. CIRCUMVENT.You know words like that could get a speaker or writer in trouble in modern-day Barbados?People who would almost, it seems, move heaven...

ALL AH WE IS ONE: Generational decline

The current “collapse of governance in West Indian cricket”, to echo P.J. Patterson, plus the ongoing failures of the Caribbean post-colonial state, demand that...

The ‘Nette Effect: Basic instincts

We were about to set out on our guided tour of the Gamboa Resort Orchid Nursery in Panama when some unknown creature ran through...

TALKBACK: Gun crime and economic woes still a concern

GUN CRIME and the economy were two of the many issues which concerned Barbadians last week.Readers had a lot to say about Central Bank...