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Up to 1,000 young people are to gain opportunities to enter the job market in the latest partnership between Government and the business community, Minister of Youth and Community Empowerment Adrian Forde has announced. The Minister’s revelation came as he addressed scores of young people during a celebration event of the Prince’s Trust International’s ‘Get Into’ […]
Leaders serve
The ultimate goal of this weekly column is to domesticate leadership – that is, to remove the ambiguity and misconceptions which surround this topic and to empower all to recognize that within ourselves, dwells many of the leadership qualities necessary to change our world for the better. Let’s face it, our world needs some major […]
Barbados’ UK ambassador ‘incensed’ by Telegraph report
Barbados’ point man in Britain has reacted in anger to a recent report in the British newspaper, The Telegraph, about the south coast sewage crisis, describing the article as “sensational and inaccurate”. In a brief comment to Barbados TODAY High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Guy Hewitt also said discussions were ongoing at the highest […]
Treasury Department moving
The public is advised that the Treasury Department will be relocated to the Ground Floor, National Housing Corporation Building, Country Road, St Michael, from Wednesday, March 21. The telephone numbers for the department will remain the same. Messengers conducting business with the Treasury Department today, Tuesday, March 20, are requested to go to the Treasury […]
Lessons from the 2018 Grenada election
In May 2016, I had the honour of introducing Dr The Right Hon. Keith Mitchell, prime minister of Grenada as the feature speaker at the annual Worrell Lecture at the University of the West Indies. In my introduction, I underscored the point that in every age only a tiny percentage of individuals stood out by […]
First-past-the-post and electoral competition
There is an emerging narrative within and outside of Grenada (particularly on social media) which seems to suggest that Grenadians intentionally voted to engineer an electoral outcome that guaranteed the absence of a parliamentary opposition. As a Grenadian and a political scientist I reject that view. As is the case with every Commonwealth Caribbean country, […]
Bizzy’s beef
Business magnate Ralph Bizzy Williams is questioning the level of respect which authorities here have for local entrepreneurs, after the management of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) reportedly reneged on a deal with his wife, Shelly, that could cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the end of December last year, Shelly, the founder […]
Preventative self care
What is preventative self-care? It is simply all the things we do to keep ourselves at our best. All the things we do to prevent a health concern from getting worse. So, it would include the interventions to make sure the work doesn’t madden us or maybe give us a stroke, and the lifestyle and […]
Forging closer ties
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is seeking to forge closer ties between the Caribbean and Latin America. During a working meeting here last week with Argentina’s resident ambassador Gustavo Martinez Pandiani, CDB President Warren Smith underscored the importance of regional cooperation. He explained that the CDB, as a regional financial institution, was currently transitioning from […]
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