#BTEditorial – The need to have more Bajan babies
Article by April 15, 2021
It was not uncommon in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and even into the early 2000s to hear and read commentaries suggesting that Barbados was over-populated. In fact, the popular belief was that women in Barbados were having too many children, particularly single mothers who struggled to provide the basic necessities.
In rural districts, family homes, with two or three generations of family members were the norm. No eyebrows were raised in condemnation of a woman with seven, eight, nine or ten children.
But highly successful Barbados Family Planning campaigns over the years to educate women on the importance of taking control of their bodies and making decisions regarding the size of their families reaped significant rewards.
April 13, 2021
A South African has given Government’s Welcome Stamp the thumbs up after his family’s five months’ residency on the remote work visa.
Conrad Brits, who is here with his wife and three sons, described the programme as a life-changing experience.
Having arrived here last December, Barbados had proved to be everything he expected and more, he told
Barbados TODAY.
Government launched the Welcome Stamp last July during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing visitors to work here remotely for up to one year.
During the time, visa holders are exempt from paying income tax.
Brits applied after seeing the Welcome Stamp initiative advertised on Instagram.
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Key points and live updates from the April 10, 2021 address to the nation by Minister of Tourism Senator Lisa Cummins.
The Grantley Adams International Airport is closed.
Every precaution was taken to secure equipment.
As of 5:30 p.m., yesterday, our airspace was declared close by the Civil Aviation.
We don’t have any promises or guarantees on what tomorrow will hold.
Let’s hope that on May 8 we will see a clearing of the skies.
By summer we are expecting a modest return of the tourism product.
I am not aware of any accommodation requests from St Vincent.
There is no tourism economy in the world that is not facing uncertainty.
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Submitted by Peter Lawrence Thompson
The pandemic is a paradox; on one hand it has destroyed our major industry, but on the other it is giving us a once in a lifetime opportunity to rebuild a much more resilient economy around services that we provide digitally to the global marketplace.
Our economic future is under a dark cloud because the COVID-19 pandemic has had a particularly devastating effect on Barbados. It has triggered an 18% annual slump in economic activity, raised unemployment to levels not seen for generations, slashed tax revenue, and ballooned the national debt. This harms all Barbadians, but it is particularly damaging to the life prospects of young people, not only because they have a disproportionately high unemployment rate but also because they will have to shoulder the burden of the expanded national debt over the coming decades.