Barbados

  • May 28, 2013
    840

    Make wise food choices

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – Making wise food choices would help to prevent obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol and other chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs). This is according to the National Nutrition Centre who lays out eight easy to follow guidelines in “Food Based Dietary Guidelines for Barbados.” The first of these tells you that you can “enjoy…

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  • May 28, 2013
    878

    Access for all!

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The new Kerryann Ifill Unit at the University of the West Indies (UWI) is one more step in the direction of making the university a fully inclusive tertiary educational institution. Building upon the success of the already implemented Vision and Fortitude programme, in its 50th year of existence, the university is truly a ‘pathway to progress’.…

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  • May 28, 2013
    804

    Barbados and Guyana have to work on immigration issues -Bajan Foreign Minister

    (Barbados Nation) BARBADOS AND GUYANA need to solve the immigration issues that have soured their relations from time to time, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Senator Maxine McClean. She made her comment while addressing a reception marking Guyana’s 47th anniversary of independence on Friday night. Noting that the two countries had been able to generally solve a range of issue…

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  • May 28, 2013
    847

    CARICOM/US to sign trade accord

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will sign a trade investment framework agreement with the United States during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden to Trinidad and Tobago next week. Biden is due in Port of Spain on Monday for a two-day visit and will also meet with regional leaders to discuss security and other…

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  • May 24, 2013
    828

    Caribbean countries extend sympathy to United States on tornado disaster

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have sent messages of empathy to the United States after a tornado killed more 24 people including nine children in Oklahoma on Monday. Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer, who is in Doha, attending the 13th Session of the Doha Forum, sent a message to President Barrack Obama expressing condolences and…

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  • May 24, 2013
    801

    Barbados must sharpen focus as a financial centre

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE OFFSHORE SECTOR has always been major part of the financial employment generating and foreign exchange earning aspects of our economy, and along with tourism, it has helped to fill the breach created by the decline of sugar. But the potential for that sector to do even more for the Barbadian economy can be gauged from the…

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  • May 23, 2013
    824

    Alternatives to criminalisation

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The recent report that an Organisation of American States (OAS) study is calling for a serious discussion on legalising marijuana follows a modern trend globally to re-think the “war” against this and other currently controlled substances. The London Guardian of May 13, for instance, reports that the Home Office of Britain is to undertake a study…

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  • May 23, 2013
    1,054

    Harmonise labour laws in the Caribbean

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – There needs to be a harmonisation of labour laws within the region. This call was made recently by Cedric Murrell, President of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) at “The Role of Labour Standards in Accessing International Markets and Supporting the Caribbean Single Market Workshop” held at Island Inn. “A case…

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  • May 23, 2013
    781

    More land for food needed

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – Making sure that just under a third of Barbados’ limited land space is kept for substantial agriculture would be to the betterment of the country. And one such area would be in making inroads in the fight against the chronic non-communicable diseases that are affecting our development. This is the view of agriculture specialist, Dr. Chelston…

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  • May 22, 2013
    823

    EDITORIAL: Response to terrorism not consistent

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – As the many hotspots around the world are examined, it is not difficult to reach the conclusion that governing is becoming increasingly challenging for many governments facing the spectre of terrorism. Nigeria, for example, is in a state of war with its local militants Boko Haram, who are wreaking havoc in the north-eastern region. Nigeria launched a…

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