The Anglican Church is exploring the option of renting out some of its vacant lands across the island.Anglican Bishop The Reverend, Dr Michael Maxwell, told Barbados TODAY that the church’s trustees who are responsible for the Diocese’s properties, are discussing the possibility of making lands available for farming. If the proposal materialises, it would provide much needed funds for the church and at the same time, provide acreage for expanding the island’s food growing options.“In terms of stewardship, utilising our properties and our lands to again not just benefit us financially, because of course we had a serious financial crisis because of the hit from COVID, we are going to hopefully use our resources to not only assist us financially but also to respond to some of the plights that we see as well within our society.“I can’t say how much land will be made available because we don’t have a property manager to actually go and scale up as to how much available land we
The Anglican Bishop of Barbados has broken his silence on last month’s controversial Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) survey, describing it as an underhanded way of seeking information from children and a misuse of power that should never be allowed to happen again.And he wants to know why officials were gathering that information in the first place.A month after the October survey, which questioned 733 first-form students about their gender identity, sexual activity and drug use, Bishop Michael Maxwell said the administering of the survey without parental consent should be considered a form of disrespect to principals, parents and the students.The head of the local Anglican Church told Barbados TODAY that while some people believe that children were aware of some of the issues raised in the survey, “nevertheless, I still think that parental consent should have been sought before anything like this should have been given to our children”.
The Ministry of Education Technological and Vocational Training has set up a hotline as the controversy surrounding the survey administered to children in the secondary school system that has offended many citizens.
Education Minister Kay Mc