Saturday, May 4, 2024

Commentary

UB40 rolls back years

Ali Campbell’s still got it. The legendary lead singer of reggae band UB40 has been on stage for more than 45 years, and Sunday night he showed he hasn’t lost...

Let’s clean up for World Cup

LAST WEEK I spoke about the sad look of Fontabelle, St Michael. The week before that,  I highlighted a...

Boyce joins sub-45 club to qualify for Worlds

Barbadian DeSean Boyce may have booked his ticket to Budapest, Hungary, for the 2023 World Athletics Championship. Boyce, 21,...

Atherley: Continue to seek new levels of achievement

Message by Leader of the Opposition Bishop Joseph J.S. Atherley on the occasion of Barbados’ 55th anniversary of Independence Fellow Barbadians,...

Atherley: Let’s work together

Following is an edited version of the New Year's Message by Leader Of The Opposition, Bishop Joseph J....

DEAR CHRISTINE: At my wit’s end over NIS cheque

DEAR CHRISTINE, I AM WRITING to you because I have a problem and no one is taking me seriously.The Government gets on the television...

Death penalty in the biblical sense

MR CHRISTOPHER SPENCER in his letter titled Consequences Of The Death Penalty (B’dos Advocate, October 25) set forth what he no doubt considers to...

THE NETTE EFFECT: Simmons, Ho equally at fault

IN A LAST-DITCH EFFORT to secure some sea eggs before the ban kicked in on Sunday, I called up Marva from St Philip.It has long...

EDITORIAL: Environmental Department needs to do more

IT APPEARS THAT in this neck of the woods when we speak of environmental protection, it invariably relates to the preservation of some species of...

ALL AH WE IS ONE: Defending unions

FOLLOWING THE national strikes by the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) earlier in 2015 and the subsequent heightening of industrial action by labour unions...

The Cahill conspiracy

I AM A FIRM BELIEVER in conspiracy theories. There have been many great conspiracy theories in history, ranging from the September 11 terrorist attacks to...