Independent Senator Hazel Thompson-Ahye says every one of the four fundamental principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child was violated when 23 secondary school boys from Trinity
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In a previous column in Saint Lucia, entitled Black Hair Matters I addressed the vexing issue of hair policies in our schools, and the need for the Caribbean to adopt school grooming policies that reflect the lived realities of our peoples. This was
The year is 2022, and Barbadian children are still being told that locs or loc extensions are not acceptable or appropriate for school.
Yet to Barbados' north, 672 miles away in the same Caribbean Sea lies Anguilla, a country which has taken the d