A build-up of silt and the highly-aged water supply infrastructure are responsible for the brown-coloured water coming out of taps in St Lucy.
Water Quality Specialist at the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) Alex Ifill gave that explanation during Monday’s Parish Speaks town hall meeting at the Daryll Jordan Secondary School in St Lucy.
He was responding to complaints from residents of the
Some 48 hours after the announcement that Cabinet had immediately cancelled Independence Day and replaced it with Barbados National Day, one has to ask of Government: Was it worth it?It could be argued that a SWOT analysis would have been appropriate in this instance to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of such a decision, not only for the people of Barbados but for the administration.The process of assigning the new Republic Day on Independence Day last year was met with heavy criticism from opposition supporters who floated the idea that this was some plot to minimise the role of founding father and national hero Errol Walton Barrow.The Prime Minister was able to fend off those criticisms and pull along many of those who were resistant to the idea of the double celebration of Republic Day and Independence Day. Frankly, the suggestion that going republic would complete the circle of true independence from Britain, made perfect sense.
Fake news!That’s how Edmund Hinkson has described reports circulating on social media that he plans to demit office as Member of Parliament for St James North before the end of the year.“What is being widely circulated today about me resigning before the end of this year is fake news, just as much as the fake news which has been circulating over the last week about other national state of affairs. I can only imagine that it emanates from opposition elements trying to fly a kite with no wind blowing,” Hinkson, who is also Chairman of the Government’s National Advisory Committee to Guide the Establishment of a Commission on Disabilities, told Barbados TODAY in a statement in which he insisted that he had no plan to step down.“A general election was held less than eight months ago with the people of St. James North returning me to Parliament with the second highest percentage of votes after only the Prime Minister. Just last week, I took Minister Charles Griffith to Weston in an
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