Barbados

  • April 10, 2013
    796

    EU putting resources to develop innovative youth

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate -The European Union (EU) is funding programmes and providing resources to ensure that young creative minds are given more opportunities to develop their craft. Working with the government, the hope is to further enhance the resources within the Fine Arts Division at the Barbados Community College while calling on teachers to explore multiple intelligences and varied teaching…

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  • April 10, 2013
    807

    Myrie hearing comes to a close in Trinidad

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will give its ruling in the matter of Shanique Myrie against the Government of Barbados at a later date, which is yet to be announced. The matter came to a close yesterday at the CCJ’s Headquarters in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, with President of the CCJ Dennis Byron adjourning the matter so…

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  • April 9, 2013
    778

    Follow-up is essential

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Technocrats can do a lot more to build confidence in the ability of state institutions to facilitate an enabling environment for business, to create a greener environment for generations to come and to position Barbados to take full advantage of its CARICOM membership. Recently, Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss, stated…

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  • April 8, 2013
    792

    EU support for region continues

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE recent announcement by European Union officials of an investment package for the Caribbean is good news all around. Not only is the proposal a welcome piece of information by recipient countries, which are witnessing a slowdown in capital inflows, but the announcement of the Caribbean Investment Facility (CIF) also conveys the position that there remains support…

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  • April 5, 2013
    808

    Supine and silent: The Caribbean in a vortex BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – How beneficial or not to the Car

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – How beneficial or not to the Caribbean is the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the 27-nation European Union (EU) as a bloc and the 15 small Caribbean members of CARIFORUM individually? Five years after the EPA became operational, this issue is still being debated.  But, it is a sterile debate.  The EPA – with all its flaws,…

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  • April 5, 2013
    780

    Private sector should lead

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – “The private sector must be the driver of the economy!” This is the expressed view of His Excellency, the Hon. Robert Morris, CHB, Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, as he delivered the featured address at the Combermere School’s Annual Speech Day and Prize-giving Ceremony. He noted that one of the problems he had detected in CARICOM is that…

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  • April 4, 2013
    877

    A paradigm shift

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Given the parlous state of regional economies, there could scarcely be disagreement that if any of our traditional officious bystanders, the little green man from Mars, the fly on the wall or the politically observant “blind man on a trotting horse” were to observe our current situation, he would offer a view that “it cannot be business…

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  • April 4, 2013
    804

    EDITORIAL: Barbados needs to be a safer destination

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Whether or not the call for a special court for tourism-related crimes comes into being, Barbados needs to be safer – for the half-million tourists who visit here annually and, equally, for our citizens. This fair land is not immune to the dramatic increase of crime, mainly robbery-based and drug-related, that has been sweeping the Caribbean in…

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  • April 4, 2013
    795

    Data deficit

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – An official of one of the United Nations agencies has expressed concern about the dearth of social data in the Caribbean region. UNICEF’s Representative for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Khin-Sandi Lwin, made the point yesterday morning while addressing those gathered for the opening of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), Data Analysis Workshop in the conference…

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  • April 3, 2013
    989

    Research essential

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados continues to bank on its people as its most valuable resource – a position that is reinforced by the heavy investment made by the State in the areas of education and health care. It is a natural synergy; after all, why invest millions in equipping a workforce with skills that are unable to be optimally implemented…

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