BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - The diversity of the student body across the campuses of the University of the West Indies (UWI) reflects that of the Caribbean population itself. Therefore, notwithstanding the growing segment of students coming from outside of the region, Caribbean students alone p...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - There is a belief that CARICOM’s designation of its Member States as Less Development Countries (LDCs) and More Developed Countries (MDCs) is now somewhat counterproductive and should be changed. So says this country’s Minister of Industry, Commerce, In...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, , CMC -In an effort to assist some of the world’s most popular travel destinations that are vulnerable to issues such as climate change and unsustainable development, the new Sustainable Destinations Alliance for the Americas (SDAA), was launched here on Thursday. The al...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - As of yesterday, six days after being declared missing, there had been no word on the whereabouts of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. Speculation grows every hour as reports, official and otherwise, and even conspiracy theories, continue to trickle in via the Inter...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - THE African-descended population in the Caribbean has the highest incidence in the world of chronic diseases, in the forms of hypertension and type two diabetes. This pandemic is the direct result of the nutritional experience, physical and emotional brutality and ov...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Victims of crimes against humanity and their descendants have a legal right to call for reparatory justice. As such, the CARICOM Reparatory Justice Committee has come up with a ten-point plan of action, which outlines the path to reconciliation and justice for such p...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian - In a January 21 address in Trinidad, Barbados Minister of Industry Donville Inniss had expressed strong optimism that Barbados’ economy was on an upward climb. He told business people, including local investors, at the first quarterly business ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - TOMORROW is International Women’s Day 2014 and several states around the world will be celebrating the achievements of women on the social, political and economic fronts in particular, while still shining a spotlight on areas for further improvement as we move ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Spain is seeking the assistance of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries for a seat on the United Nations Security Council for 2015-2016 period. Spain's Ambassador Manuel Quesada met with Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and delivered a letter from Spa...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - HOW MUCH longer will it take for the United Nations to come to grips with its moral, if not legal responsibility as well, to compensate the thousands of Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic in 2010 that has been traced to negligence by a detachment of United Nations...