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Adams for 'rough debate'
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RAWDON ADAMS voiced support for "rough, transparent debate" as he delivered the fifth lecture in memory of his father, late Prime Minister Tom Adams on Thursday night.
Within the adversarial walls of Parliament, he said, rough, transparent debate was "a precious form of shared counsel".
In the lecture entitled, The Value Of Political Confrontation, Transparency And National Reputation In A Crisis, Adams said the nature of politics in Barbados was "at one and the sa ...
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Blackman's Gully - beauty to behold
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by MARIA BRADSHAW
THE Future Centre Trust will soon be promoting a beautiful nature trail in St Joseph which has been hidden for several years because of the ugly hands of illegal dumping.
Two weeks ago members of the trust, with assistance from the National Conservation Commission, the Barbados Defence Force and B's Bottle Depot removed 27 tonnes of garbage from Blackman's Gully, exposing a 200 year-old natural treasure.
And today a team, including members of the tr ...
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Still no gas for some
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ALTHOUGH it has been reported that tankers had offloaded the supply of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) yesterday, at least one business was affected and some service stations were still unsure when they would have the gas in stock.
It has been reported that service stations ran out of bottled gas on Thursday as rough seas prevented the tankers for Sol gas and Chevron from offloading for the past two weeks.
Sheryl Stuart, who cooks food and sells for a living was yesterday seen at the Da ...
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Response
from Mavado's manager
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THE management of Mavado expressed surprise yesterday at the decision of the Royal Barbados Police Force to decline to provide security for the show with their artiste and Vybz Kartel.
Declaring the show a positive thing, Mavado's manager, Julian Jones-Griffith told the SATURDAY SUN by email last night:
"It's a peace thing. We went there in September and I know Kartel has been there after. His concert was incident-free, as our own. So, I don't understand. They let both artist ...
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Too many reggae artistes, says Jones
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MINISTER of Education and Human Resource Development Ronald Jones has given the thumbs down to Jamaican dancehall artistes Vybz Kartel and Mavado.
Speaking at the official opening ceremony of the St Ambrose Primary School, yesterday morning, Jones said the heavy diet of dancehall artistes performing in Barbados was an overkill and doing more harm than good.
"Even though we share the same Caribbean space, it does not mean we have to welcome everybody. Vybz Kartel and Movado can stay in Ja ...
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Let the good
Vybz roll
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by TIM SLINGER
PROMOTERS OF THE Vybz Kartel and Mavado show have cried foul over the police's response to their scheduled March 27 concert.
Veteran promoter Jack Farrell said cancellation of the show would mean a loss of more then $200 000 for his company which has been named as joint promoter with the Government-affiliated Barbados Youth Action Programme.
"I don't know why they [police] have to come and say at this time they don't have the manpower to police the ...
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Appeal Court rules
six-year sentence fair
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REASONABLE, not excessive, and nothing wrong in principle.
That was how the Court of Appeal described the six-year jail term a High Court judge imposed on a man whose actions contributed to the death of another.
Romeo DaCosta Hall was back in the Court of Appeal yesterday for a decision on his appeal after attorney Andrew Pilgrim and he had contended that the sentence he received was excessive.
Hall, of Salisbury, St George, was originally charged with murdering Ephraim Wickham on January ...
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Man freed after 6 years
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A FIFTEEN-YEAR prison term came to an abrupt end for a former convicted rapist yesterday.
Fabian Randolph Cooke, of Blades Hill, St Philip, was released by the Court of Appeal yesterday, six years into that sentence.
In 2006, a jury convicted Cooke of raping a 14-year-old girl on August 19, 2003, and Justice Elneth Kentish jailed him for 15 years.
However, his attorneys Angella Mitchell-Gittens and Ajamu Boardi, had argued that the trial judge erred when she told members of the ju ...
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On a youth mission
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by CLIFTON HENRY
CRIME DOES NOT PAY! This is the message that director of the Barbados Youth Action Programme (BYAP), Lumumba Batson, is spreading to Barbados' youth as he visits secondary and primary schools across the island.
Accompanying Batson on this mission are Christopher Griffith, priest of the Church of Haile Selassie The First, Ras I'Kambo and Emmanuel Beryllia.
Recently they chatted with students of Lester Vaughan Secondary and encouraged them to avoid a ...
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More H1N1 shots
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IN AN EFFORT to have more people immunised with the Influenza A (H1N1) vaccine, the Ministry of Health has decided to give shots to anyone from one-year-old and up.
Since the vaccination campaign was started late January some 7 551 individuals, considered vulnerable to the disease, have been vaccinated.
Senior Medical Officer Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand who is responsible for coordinating the H1N1 campaign, said the figures represented "a fair response by the public that could be better." ...
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