Barbados News

DLP Column : Our future 11/16/2009 Prime Minister David Thompson has remained resolute in his calls for a safer environment for our youth.

Former Barbadian prime minister Owen Arthur says the rise of trade liberalisation and globalisation was making a massive impact in the world, and less developed countries within the Caribbean are forced to face more challenges.

Dear Sir: I read with interest in Caribbean Net News, which is on the ball with regional news, that CARICOM will send a team to St Vincent to observe the Referendum.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Barbados government cannot afford to spend 20 percent of its gross domestic product on education, "just to help young people get better qualifications only to find a job". Parliamentary Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner, made this observation on Saturday, ...

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Barbados government has agreed to hire a consultant to seek new areas of employment for Barbadians overseas.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Caribbean nations want Barbados to explain to them how "this small country, with limited resources, facing a crisis of the magnitude that it has, was able to achieve [sustainability] without having major social unrest, or political upheaval". Prime Minister David Thompson and Central Bank Governor, ...

You know you're in Barbados when the Prime Minister himself runs up a red flag about the feared impact on Caribbean tourism of a new British travel-tax increase.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Too many young people are escaping "religious-based, moral education and society is paying the penalty in the form of widespread anti-social behaviour among our young people". This view was expressed by Prime Minister David Thompson, last Saturday, during an address at the Installation and Awards ...

Rejecting opposition forecasts, Government is predicting a ten per cent decline in tourist arrivals by year-end. a oeWe will not finish this year [with arrivals] up,a Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy conceded during a news conference at his office in the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre on Saturday.

WITHIN weeks of holding their respective 71st anniversary annual conference, there was a virtual reversal of moods, at the leadership level, for Jamaica's opposition People's National Party and the opposition Barbados Labour Party in Barbados, compared with what had prevailed a year ago.

On certain fragrant evenings in Barbados, when an overripe mango moon seems ready to burst, the island gives itself over to magical realism.

Under the microscope : The difference today is glaring 10/22/2009 Back in my previous life as a politician, I had difficulty, on occasion, responding to those cynics who suggested the two main political parties in Barbados were the same.

DLP column : Two years + Mia = Nought 10/24/2009 Can you believe the Leader of the Opposition is finally agreeing with the Prime Minister? The recent comments regarding the 'ban on cell phones in schools' by the Opposition leader, in the House of Assembly on Tuesday 20th October 2009 will go down in history.

Lance Corporal Tremayne Hunte and Lance Corporal Dondru Bullen of the Grantley Adams School Cadet Corps raise the flag at the opening of the Tamarind Hall Branch Library.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- At the end of the current recession, a large number of super-powers would have emerged and would be able to mass produce and deliver consumer goods and services that are highly competitive.

A SPECIAL meeting of top regional officials is to take place to consider and offer recommendations on the outcome of the stakeholders Convocation on CARICOM's Single Market and Economy in Barbados earlier this month.

BLP column : Financial revelations 10/11/2009 It is one of life's ironies that the DLP's principle spokesman on the ills of the national debt while in Opposition, should now find himself as the Government's principle spokesman in justifying an increase in the national of debt of over $500 million on top of the $1 billion it has already borrowed.

DLP column : Well done, Minister Boyce 10/10/2009 Minister John Boyce is to be commended for his willingness to report on the progress of his Ministry.

Texas : A United States federal judge has granted a request by Sir Allen Stanford to move to another jail in Texas so he can review his documents with his lawyer.

By Sharon Austin BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Minister of Sports, Dr Esther Byer Suckoo, has again called on corporate Barbados to render more assistance to local athletes.