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While this blog highlights the NIS fund, the burgeoning pension liability of government for the public service, both central government and SOEs adds to the problems a future generation will have to wrestle.
The Rastafari Community is taking Attorney General Dale Marshall to task over the continued delay in the constitutional case relating to their right to use marijuana in the privacy of their homes. In a press release issued yesterday, they charged that while Marshall had been condemning the time it was taking for cases to be resolved, their matter had been adjourned until next year, the fourth in three years, because …
The Barbados Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in the constitutional motion brought against Attorney General Dale Marshall challenging the composition of the Senate following the 2022 General Elections.The appellate panel comprising Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham and Justices Jefferson Cumberbatch and Rejendra Narine heard arguments on Thursday from counsel for respondent Marshall and claimant Adriel Brathwaite, a former Attorney General under the Democratic Labour Party (DLP).Through his attorney Garth Patterson, KC, Brathwaite is contending that when President Dame Sandra Mason convened Parliament, it was not properly constituted according to the Constitution which he argued requires 21 senators. Only 18 had been appointed at that time. “Here you have a situation where the Constitution says the President was required to appoint the senators as soon as [pos