Budget day: Wednesday, March 20. Prime Minister Mia Mottley will deliver her first Budget on March 20, 2019. Without doubt the 2019 Budget will be interesting not only for the pundits, for the masses as well, who for the first time are witnessing a Barbados in the grip of economic and social turmoil NEVER experienced in our history. The political
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. –Eighth Amendment, US Constitution It has been a long time in gestation, a not uncommon characteristic of some Barbadian legislation, if we are to have regard to legislation such as the Employment Rights Act, the Safety and Health at Work Act, the Integrity in
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Submitted by PUDRYR This article about the 3rd Party Movement will not be a long one Mostly because there is one thing that any third party movement will have to do in 2023. Deliverables! It will have to impress the people that it has the competencies and the capacity AND THE COUNT to make a difference!!! Anything else is inconsequential
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President of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Dave Cameron is being challenged for the position by Ricky Skerrit in an election scheduled to be held in Jamaica on the 24 March 2019. The blogmaster does not have a horse in the race, however, of concern is the autocratic manner the Condé Riley led Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) has involved itself in
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‘Speaking truth to power’ is a phrase that been adopted by the most partisan of us. They use it to convince the public that they are non-partisan observers who can remain silent no longer. They claim to be principled individuals who are compelled to speak against the governing administration regardless of the personal consequences. It appears like a noble quest,
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All indications are that many of our visitors are becoming even more savvy or perhaps better described as creative in how they actually book and pay for holidays, tourism services and the various type of accommodation offerings. One such area of usage and growth are websites like TopCashback currently with separate operational entities in both the United Kingdom and United
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“You are not to wrong or oppress an alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt. –Exodus 22:21 (ISV) There appears to be an irrefutable presumption in the collective mind of governing administrations in Barbados that a substantial majority of our citizens are firmly in favour of the ongoing regional project in all its iterations. Hence, there is no
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