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The Jeff Cumberbatch Column – Paper, Plastic, or Polystyrene? -The New Prohibition

Posted on March 3, 2019 by David 45 comments

“Banning single-use plastic bags and straws without significant further action is putting a finger on a spigot at a time when we need to suppress the tidal wave” –Manny Stanislaus in World Resources Institute paper, August 16 2018 According to an item dated January 22 2019 on the Barbados Government Information Service website, from Monday, April 1, the importation, retail, sale and use of petro-based single-use plastic

Murder She Wrote in January

Posted on February 23, 2019 by David 50 comments

Compiled by caribbeansignal.com Based on the data collected, there have been at least nine deaths associated with violence – as opposed to other causes – for the month of January 2019. See full details Barbados Murder Statistics January 2019

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Lawyer-politicians Take Us for FOOLS

Posted on February 23, 2019 by David 37 comments

Submitted by Cheryl Newton Lawyer-politicians make me sick to the stomach and are full of shit. Perhaps they behave with much contempt as if of the opinion we all went to school in August. When in government they seem to sit on their brains and when in opposition behave as the smartest persons in the world. A 300 page report

The Jeff Cumberbatch Column – In re Gabriel: hard case…. bad law?

Posted on February 17, 2019 by David 50 comments

West Indies cricket supporters, both of the born-again and the true-blue variety, are naturally feeling aggrieved at the recent decisions of the match referee in the current Test series to impose varying match bans on the captain, Mr Jason Holder and fast bowler, Mr Shannon Gabriel, for their respective infringements of the playing regulations and the Code of Conduct of

The Jeff Cumberbatch Column – On Venezuela, Integrity, and Wrongful Conception

Posted on February 10, 2019 by David 199 comments

Any sensible resolution to the ongoing crisis in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ought, arguably, to go beyond the current simplistic sloganeering of being for “Team Maduro” (Russia, China, Cuba) or for “Team Guaidò” (US, UK and others), depending on the nation’s political interest. The current situation there is also far more complex than one to which our neutral foreign

Chief Justice May Have Erred In Confidence Vote Judgment

Posted on February 1, 2019 by David 38 comments

Submitted by Rickford Burke, President of The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) Yesterday, January 31, 2018 Guyana’s Chief Justice, Hon. Roxann George-Wiltshire, upheld the constitutionality of the December 21, 2018 no confidence vote against the APNU+AFC coalition government of Guyana. The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) disagrees with the ruling of the Madam Chief Justice. After careful deliberation

Gun Play “Dem Haffi Dead”

Posted on January 28, 2019 by David 159 comments

Buju Banton was popular before his incarceration in the USA. Since his release it would appear he has gained greater notoriety. One group Banton does not endear himself is the LGBT community. The reason can be found in his song “Boom bye bye“. What many Barbadians are blissfully unaware are three words in the chorus of the song Boom bye

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