New Year must bring change

From my family to yours, I hope you’ve had a very good and meaningful holiday season with your family and friends. Christmas is a special time for reconnecting before we reset for the start of a brand new year.  As I look back on 2016, what was meant to be a Golden Jubilee year didn’t quite turn out the way most of us might have wanted.  I won’t rehash all the details here but you know what I mean. As we approach 2017, there...

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Alarming!

Concern that Govt is sinking deeper into debt (by BarbadosToday) Government’s decision to raise the domestic debt ceiling under the Domestic Loans Act by $1 billion to $7.5 billion has been met with grave concern from the private sector, as well as at least one local economist who said it was a worrying signal that the Freundel Stuart administration had lost control of the financial situation. Economist Ryan Straughn, a political...

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No sense blaming the Bees

I am writing this article on Friday morning after a hectic week and my state of mind, at present, is quite frankly not a good one. It is Christmas — a time for reflection and some merriment — but it is difficult to do so when it appears that our country Barbados, once known as the Gem of the Caribbean, is literally falling apart at the seams. You are well aware that I am a member of a political party, and so there is an automatic filter that is...

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Counting down to elections

I trust and hope that everyone enjoyed some aspect of the festivities put on for our recent 50th Anniversary of Independence celebrations.  I don’t have the statistics immediately available but I think November 2016 has to be the wettest November I can remember for some time. If it was indeed the wettest, then perhaps that might also mean that there is no longer a drought facing Barbados. Therefore, the water issues that have plagued Barbados...

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