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By Brittany Brewster
Founder of Jabez House Shamelle Rice, popular gospel singer Sister Margarita Marshall, charity worker Sharon Bellamy-Thompson and founder of the Foundation for Better Learning (FFBL) Esther Mullin are the recipients of this year’s Vocational Service Awards from the Rotary Club of Barbados West.
The four women were recognised at the club’s annual Service Awards ceremony held on Tuesday at
Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs Kirk Humphrey is not backing down from his stance that sex workers need protection and that he intended to push for them to get it.Over the weekend, as he lamented last Friday’s murder of one of his constituents, 44-year-old Guyanese sex worker Caroline Baird in Bush Hill, the St Michael South MP said measures would be put in place to protect women in the sex industry.In Parliament on Tuesday, he doubled down on his position, making no apologies for his views.Saying that he was appalled and saddened at how women were generally treated in Barbados, especially those who engage in prostitution, Humphrey contended that sex workers were simply doing what they needed to do to feed their families and should be protected while doing so.“I am appalled that women are telling me when they go on the streets for whatever reason that men feel they have a right to come to take away their money and take away their dignity. That is wrong, and we have
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