The National Assistance Board (NAB) is spending close to $3 million on two facilities to provide residential and transitional housing for some of the island’s elderly.
Acting Director Colleen Walcott, speaking in the Lower House on Wednesday, made the disclosure as she said the lack of housing for senior citizens continues to be a major issue for the NAB.
“But what we
In 2022, there was a continuous trend of violent crimes in Barbados. The country recorded 43 murders, the second highest total ever. There were also increased efforts by Police and Government to combat crime. The Mia Mottley administration faced criticism for its handling of the crime situation. Many citizens felt that not enough was being done to address the problem and the necessary steps were not being taken to keep …
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by Ralph Jemmott
On Monday, January 16, while hosting Down to Brass Tacks, moderator David Ellis made an interesting comment. He said that he often asked himself whether in discussing today’s Barbados, he was being too critical, too prone to see the negatives in
Last year was chockfull of news on the political front. Whether it was general elections, internal party affairs or the Cabinet reshuffle in the last quarter of the year, there always seemed to be something happening and being discussed among the pundits and those who occasionally have a look-see into the goings-on. In the dying embers of 2021 while people were making plans to usher in the new year, on …
President of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Dr Ronnie Yearwood has labelled the Mia Mottley-led administration as “incompetent”, having failed at growing the economy, improving the island’s tourism product and tackling crime.In his first press conference for 2023, Dr Yearwood said the Government had been especially dismal in its handling of the economy which had seen only “negligible” growth.He accused the Barbados Labour Party administration of going on a “borrowing spree” since coming into office in 2018, with little to show for it.Dr Yearwood also highlighted an absence of any growth policies as evidence of Government’s failure.“The Barbados economy has struggled for growth under the Mia Mottley and the BLP administration. This is obviously due to the ravages of COVID-19, it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge that, but really, it has also been due really to the austerity measures imposed by the administration.