Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has again made a case for reparations to be paid to countries which suffered the oppression of slavery. In her appearance on stage at the Time 100 Summit 2022 in New York yesterday, she said it was time for European enslaving nations to compensate enslaved countries which were also now battling the effects of climate change as a result of actions of those same countries. …
While Britain’s Queen Elizabeth was celebrating her 96th birthday and 75 years on the throne yesterday, Barbadian Audrey Thomas was celebrating her 100th birthday at her Golf Club, Christ Church home, surrounded by an intimate gathering of family. The well known horticulturalist, who was president of the Barbados Horticultural Society from 1981 to 1983 and one of the people in the vanguard of inspiring Barbadians to get more involved in …
Members of Cuba’s Henry Reeve Brigade, the medical team which responded to Barbados’ call for assistance at the outbreak of COVID-19 here, have returned to Cuba after completing their two-year assignment. The cohort of 126 medical doctors, nurses and lab technologists flew out of the Grantley Adams International Airport yesterday and were showered with praise and words of appreciation by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and Minister of Health Ian …
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has clarified Barbados’ decision to become a parliamentary republic, suggesting it was not intended to be a snub to British rule. Speaking at a British High Commission reception in honour of Queen Elizabeth’s birthday and platinum jubilee Wednesday night, Mottley told British High Commissioner Scott Furssedonn-Wood: “As the newest parliamentary republic in the world, it is also important that we let it be known that …
by Gercine Carter The University of The West Indies (UWI) is planning a diabetes reversal project as a major feature of the new facility intended for the former site of the St Joseph Hospital after the university assumes full control of the property. Government recently vested the Ashton Hall, St Peter property in The UWI, in a special purpose vehicle in which the university holds 75 per cent ownership while …