Mar 31, 2020 | Editorials
By Patricia Scotland (Commonwealth Secretary-General) Five years ago more than 40 babies born in Jamaican hospitals became infected with lethal bacteria – half of them died. The bacteria Klebsiella, like the coronavirus, is spread from person-to-person or via...
Mar 30, 2020 | Editorials
Macbeth referred to life as “But a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of much sound and fury, signifying nothing.” James, he of the New Testament, says, “Life is a...
Mar 28, 2020 | Editorials
The government and people of Barbados are owed our gratitude for their humanitarian act of accepting 35 nationals of Trinidad and Tobago after authorities here refused to relax our borders to allow them in. Having indicated that the discretion to deviate from the...
Mar 27, 2020 | Editorials
The news came as no surprise. We’re talking about last evenings announcement by our Prime Minister, the Honourable Gaston Browne, that we had four (4) new cases of the awful COVID-19. That brought to seven the total number of cases here in our fair State. Again, we...
Mar 26, 2020 | Editorials
By Alicia Bárcena Ibarra — Executive Secretary of ECLAC (United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) Everything seems to be one gigantic mistake. We console ourselves by saying that everything has happened as it should not have...
