Get the Apps Commissioner not commenting on the Good Friday incident says senior officer
Article by April 9, 2021
As the controversy builds surrounding the intervention of Prime Minister Mia Mottley in a Good Friday incident involving police officers and the owner of The Cook Shop at Deacons Road, St Michael, the police chief is adamant he has nothing to say on the matter.
When
Barbados TODAY reached out to Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith this morning for comment, this media house was told by his Staff Officer Acting Superintendent Sonia Boyce that the Prime Minister had already spoken and that Griffith won’t be making any statement.
CCB workers want board removed
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Trouble is brewing in the island’s sole child protection agency.
Staff at the state-run Child Care Board (CCB) is demanding the resignation or removal of the entire board over what they claim is the chairperson’s direct involvement in the daily running of the agency and more particularly, her handling of the filling of the vacant post of Deputy Director.
The disgruntled workers, who are ready to take industrial action over the matter, have called in their bargaining agent, the Unity Trade Union (UTU) led by Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn to represent them.
Belle, Wickham say details needed from police and businessman
Article by April 7, 2021
Two of the country’s leading political scientists have concluded that Prime Minister Mia Mottley did not act outside her legal authority during a highly-publicised interaction with a Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) officer that has raised questions about potential abuse of power from the highest office in the land.
Retired Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies Dr. George Belle however contends that even if Mottley was not legally at fault, her actions could be interpreted as a show of intimidation toward law enforcement officials.
April 7, 2021
Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn is calling for Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley to be removed from office.
Franklyn told
Barbados TODAY that Mottley failing to accept that she overstepped her boundaries when she accepted a call from cook shop owner Ross Ashton on
Good Friday when police attempted to end his special event at Deacons Farm, St Michael, is grounds for immediate dismissal.
In fact, the outspoken Opposition Senator said Governor General Dame Sandra Mason should be giving Prime Minister Mottley her walking papers.
In breaking her silence on the issue which has caused much public debate in recent days, Prime Minister Mottley has maintained that she did no wrong in accepting a call from the Deacon’s Farm resident, and indicated that the situation could be compared to an official from another section of society calling her with a query. She said that her interaction with the law enforcement and the cook shop owner was simply to seek informa
Judge to hear matters against Govt ‘quickly’
Article by March 17, 2021
Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn’s lawsuit against Government in relation to its COVID-19 directives will be heard “quickly” as opposed to “urgently”.
This was the position of Madam Justice Jacqueline Cornelius when the matter came up before her in the No. 13 Supreme Court late this morning.
Franklyn, represented by attorney-at-law Neil Marshall is challenging the manner in which the Emergency Management legislation, crafted by Government to control the spread of COVID-19 on the island, was imposed. He charged that Government is illegally enforcing directives that have not had Parliament’s approval.