Barbados

  • June 21, 2013
    914

    Dottin takes action

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – COMMISSIONER OF POLICE Darwin Dottin has taken legal action against the Attorney General (AG) and the Police Service Commission (PSC) over his forced retirement. According to sources, Dottin’s legal team, headed by Elliott Mottley, QC, yesterday filed suit in the High Court challenging the decision to remove the Commissioner from office Monday.

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  • June 20, 2013
    838

    Take charge of your health

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Health is unarguably the most important issue for any society. When health is impaired there is a reduced standard of life and, in some cases, a loss of life. When one considers economic hardships, educational challenges, community unrest, or even criminal activity, they all pale in comparison to one’s very physical existence as each person enjoys the…

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  • June 19, 2013
    817

    Syria in for a summer offensive

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – LEADERS OF THE G8 countries – United States, Japan, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Italy (representing just over half of the US$71.7 trillion global economy) – met this week in Ireland ostensibly to discuss the global economy. However, the conflict in Syria predictably dominated the summit which began on Monday, with Russia facing pressure to back…

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  • June 19, 2013
    884

    Opposition criticises removal of top cop

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Opposition Leader Mia Mottley has described as “unprecedented,” the manner in which Police Commissioner Darwin Dottin was sent on leave pending his retirement in the public interest. Media reports said that the Police Service Commission (PSC) took the decision on Monday and has since named Assistant Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith to act as interim head…

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  • June 19, 2013
    929

    Not so fast!

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – LESS THAN 24 hours  after the removal of Commissioner of Police (COP) Darwin Dottin,  the acting Deputy COP Seymour Cumberbatch is asking the High Court for an injunction  to halt any attempt  to fill the post  of Deputy Commissioner. In documents filed in the High Court yesterday against the Attorney General and the Police Service Commission (PSC),…

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  • June 19, 2013
    892

    Special Comment

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – NO EVENT in recent memory has plunged a tranquil, if anxious, Barbados into a greater state of shock and dismay than the action taken on Monday by the Police Service Commission (PSC) to retire Police Commissioner Darwin Dottin with a day’s notice. It is the type of humiliating treatment meted out to junior employees caught in the…

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  • June 19, 2013
    1,265

    Focus on CNCDs

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE cost of health care will increase significantly if the incidence of non-communicable diseases continues to rise. That is the view of Member of Parliament and Minister of Health, John Boyce. Speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday, he said his Ministry sees it as critical in its health plan, to focus on the prevention of non-communicable…

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  • June 18, 2013
    850

    EDITORIAL: This challenging children problem for Jamaica govt

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – VARIOUS MEMBER STATES of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) face social, economic and political challenges at this time. It could, however, be quite disturbing to learn that Jamaica is not alone in having the very serious problem of thousands of its children living without birth certificates and consequently being kept out of the school. About a quarter million…

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  • June 18, 2013
    981

    Barbados seeking closer relationship with El Salvador

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados is seeking increased trade with El Salvador as part of efforts to increase relationship with the Central American country. “We do some trade with El Salvador. We do not export as much to El Salvador as we should be doing…and we look forward, of course, to achieving some balance in our trading relationship,” said Prime…

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  • June 18, 2013
    815

    Universities facing dilemma?

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Have student support services become more complex? Or, has society, in its effort to remove the elitism of tertiary education, thrown out the reverence and thought which was formerly given to chosing a path of higher learning, leaving behind institutions which have become attractors of high debt and procrastinators? It was a thought which rested on our…

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