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The much-touted Child Protection Bill is ready to go before Parliament, perhaps as soon as in a few days, Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs Kirk Humphrey said on Tuesday.
Addressing the opening ceremony of The LIVITY Project Policy Forum on Inclusive Approaches to Justice at the Barbados Hilton, he gave an update on the progress of the legislation under
We have heard it time and time again: “Tourism is our business, let’s play our part”. And, for the most part, Bajans have done a good job of ensuring that the visitors who come to this island in droves are well taken care of.We have all embraced this national slogan that was plastered all across the media many years ago, but none has owned it quite like the industry officials. Long shifts, double shifts, split shifts, every shift possibly created in the sector has been embraced by the workers and, by extension, their households.This is not to say that management is not dedicated, but there is a remarkable sense of commitment and purpose that comes with being on the ground working in the hospitality industry.We never think of them when we speak of “essential workers” but they do fall in that category. And while some may argue that there is no “life or death” urgency in what they do, we beg to differ. Essentially, the caretaking of thousands of tourists who leave the comfor
An international economic consultant is warning that Barbados and other Caribbean countries are at the tipping point of a serious debt crisis.“There is now a growing sense that the world needs another new global initiative on debt,” said Jwala Rambarran, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago.His sobering declaration was made yesterday during the virtual launch of a report entitled: Caribbean Emancipation 2030: A Sovereign Debt and Climate Justice Initiative for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS).Rambarran, who authored the study on behalf of the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) contended that there’s now a need for a fresh solution to address this state of affairs.One chart in the findings of the study placed Barbados in a red zone as the Caribbean country with the highest gross public debt of 157 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2020.
Authorities in Barbados and the rest of the region are being advised to stop putting all their eggs in the tourism basket and diversify their economies in line with global changes if they want to survive.Principals of Upturn Funds Caribbean (UFC) offered that guidance during the venture capital firm’s inaugural investment summit on Thursday at the Barbados Hilton Resort.“Tourism is something that no longer works in this region,” said UFC co-founder and chairman Raphael D’angelis.“There are way better markets [that are] more fit to be a more aggressive competitor in the tourism arena than many countries in the Caribbean. But we know that if we integrate the region, bring the region closer together we have a shot here in actually creating economic prosperity on a level never seen before.”“We base this not only on the fact that we want to integrate. We actually went through many studies in many different regions around the world to show the average growth that that integrati