The Auditor General’s Report has not highlighted any dishonesty or ‘tiefing’ by Government.So says Minister in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Ryan Straughn, who today vehemently denied any wrongdoing by the Mia Mottley-led administration during its four years in office.Speaking during debate in Parliament on the Electric Light and Power (Amendment) Bill, 2022, Straughn maintained that Government had been transparent in its actions and had done nothing wrong.“There is nothing in the Auditor General’s Report that would lead anybody to conclude realistically that there has been any ‘tiefing’, corruption or anything, and I use that word deliberately because Bajans need to understand that what the Auditor General is referring to in his report are issues of how do you account for the money.
Barbadians who want sex work decriminalized here now have a chance to have their say on whether it becomes a reality.Adult entertainment advocate Charles Charlie Spice Lewis, has started an online petition urging the Mia Mottley-led administration to decriminalize sex work in Barbados and all activities related to the industry with a view to protecting those involved in the trade, minimizing crimes against them and stemming the spread of sexually-transmitted infections.“Everyone residing in Barbados or who comes to Barbados, I am inviting to sign, including expats who live here. If everyone who goes to strip clubs in Barbados and is a subscriber to some type of service or activity with the sex trade here in Barbados, if they were all to sign, I think we would look at about 100 000 people signing.“But again, there is a lot of hypocrisy in Barbados and there is a lot of fear so many people probably will not sign because they are worried about repercussions from their jobs and from th
The National Housing Corporation (NHC) is assisdously working towards clearly the backlog of applicants for Government housing.
Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance, Dwight Sutherland was speaking last weekend at the NHC Mortgage Fair
Government’s fuel import bill nearly tripled in the first quarter of this year when compared to the same period last year, Minister of Energy and Business Kerrie Symmonds disclosed Wednesday as he cautioned that could rise further.According to him, the Mia Mottley-led administration spent a total of $455 million on imported petroleum products from January to April this year, while for the same period last year the bill was $162 million.“That statistic alone tells you the nature of the uphill battle this little island is in, in order to maintain the quality of life, the standard of living, all the things that we have become accustomed to, all of which are fuelled by the fuel which we import, the petroleum products that we import, and the cost of it has escalated alarmingly,” Symmonds said.
Former Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn has slammed Government’s offering of school meals to needy children during the summer vacation, suggesting that the Mia Mottley-led administration should instead be distributing supermarket vouchers to their families.Chief among his objections to the Summer Nutrition Programme is that children would have to experience the indignity of going to various locations to queue for food and be exposed to ridicule.“That has me so angry it ain’t funny. I pray about not losing my cool over that. You have a situation where you have needy children; God knows I needy myself but I ain’t lining up in no place for nobody to see me going in there with my hand out begging for food,” Franklyn argued.“Those days are gone. In the Prime Minister’s grandfather’s time, it served that purpose to get him elected and to make him popular. It should not be serving that purpose now. . . You have to treat people with dignity and the dignity of this whole thin