Barbados

  • April 5, 2013
    816

    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
    906

    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
    834

    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
    827

    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
    1,018

    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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  • April 3, 2013
    823

    Systematic plan of action needed to mitigate against disasters

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A systematic process must be put in place to ensure that there is continuous learning regarding the hazards that can affect Barbados and clear plans and appropriate actions must be outlined before disasters occur, through an effective mitigation strategy, so as to reduce the scale or severity of impacts. This was the point made by Nicole Greenidge…

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  • April 3, 2013
    811

    Not enough disaster training programmes

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The range and quantity of the programmes available for training with respect to disasters are too limited. That is the view of the recently retired executive director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Jeremy Collymore, who made the point while speaking to the media during his last press conference as head of the regional entity.…

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  • April 2, 2013
    856

    BARBADOS-LEGISLATION-Barbados to consider legislation to allow for civil asset recovery

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government will soon discuss legislation allowing for the seizure of the ill-gotten gains from criminal activity through civil procedures, Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs, Adriel Brathwaite, has said. Brathwaite said over the last two years, Bridgetown has been working with the United States embassy here to champion the effectiveness of a civil…

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  • April 2, 2013
    851

    Prime Minister Stuart is new RSS Chairman

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart of Barbados has taken over the chairmanship of the Regional Security System (RSS). He was selected to head the regional body at its just concluded meeting in St. John’s, Antigua. Mr. Stuart replaces Errol Cort, the National Security Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Coming out of that meeting, the new Chairman has re-emphasised…

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  • April 2, 2013
    851

    Debt warning

    warning BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Caribbean countries, including Barbados, they face an uphill battle fighting the debt crisis that has them in a stranglehold. An IMF paper released yesterday, titled Caribbean Small States: Challenges of High Debt And Low Growth, said the average debt as a percentage of GDP for the region now hovered…

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