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Opposition criticises removal of top cop

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Opposition Leader Mia Mottley has described as “unprecedented,” the manner in which Police Commissioner Darwin Dottin was sent on leave pending his retirement in the public interest.
Media reports said that the Police Service Commission (PSC) took the decision on Monday and has since named Assistant Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith to act as interim head of the police service.
Dottin has not commented on the PSC decision.

Not so fast!

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - LESS THAN 24 hours  after the removal of Commissioner of Police (COP) Darwin Dottin,  the acting Deputy COP Seymour Cumberbatch is asking the High Court for an injunction  to halt any attempt  to fill the post  of Deputy Commissioner.
In documents filed in the High Court yesterday against the Attorney General and the Police Service Commission (PSC), Cumberbatch is urging the suspension of a process aimed at filling the vacancy of the number  two post in the Royal Barbados Police Force.

Special Comment

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - NO EVENT in recent memory has plunged a tranquil, if anxious, Barbados into a greater state of shock and dismay than the action taken on Monday by the Police Service Commission (PSC) to retire Police Commissioner Darwin Dottin with a day’s notice.
It is the type of humiliating treatment meted out to junior employees caught in the act of blatant theft, naked deception or treachery.
Both the dismissal itself and the manner in which it was effected are cause for concern among right-thinking citizens.

Focus on CNCDs

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE cost of health care will increase significantly if the incidence of non-communicable diseases continues to rise.
That is the view of Member of Parliament and Minister of Health, John Boyce. Speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday, he said his Ministry sees it as critical in its health plan, to focus on the prevention of non-communicable diseases. His comments came as he referred to the National Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases Commission, which he said was set up lead the fight against those diseases.

EDITORIAL: This challenging children problem for Jamaica govt

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - VARIOUS MEMBER STATES of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) face social, economic and political challenges at this time. It could, however, be quite disturbing to learn that Jamaica is not alone in having the very serious problem of thousands of its children living without birth certificates and consequently being kept out of the school.
About a quarter million such children in this predicament are in a population of approximately 2.8 million, according to a child protection specialist with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Janet Cupidon Quallo.

Barbados seeking closer relationship with El Salvador

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Barbados is seeking increased trade with El Salvador as part of efforts to increase relationship with the Central American country.
“We do some trade with El Salvador. We do not export as much to El Salvador as we should be doing…and we look forward, of course, to achieving some balance in our trading relationship,” said Prime Minister Freundel Stuart as he met with El Salvador’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Raymundo Rodriguez Diaz.

Universities facing dilemma?

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Have student support services become more complex? Or, has society, in its effort to remove the elitism of tertiary education, thrown out the reverence and thought which was formerly given to chosing a path of higher learning, leaving behind institutions which have become attractors of high debt and procrastinators?

In Bahamas, Arthur warns of threats to nation building

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - FORMER Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur is warning of social disintegration within the Caribbean if new lifestyles and consumption patterns promoted through globalisation, are allowed to go unchecked.
Arthur gave the warning in an address at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Independence of The Bahamas, saying that it could also affect nation building in the region.

Get on board

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE report that LIAT has acquired the first ATR 72-600 aircraft as part of a programme to upgrade its fleet is good news for the island-hopping airline. But as the Caribbean air carrier embarks on this project, which is costly but necessary, now is the time for other islands which are not part of the LIAT shareholding, to come on board and strengthen the airline.

Barbados to raise unfair trading practice before COTED

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados says it will raise with the Caribbean Community Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) a situation involving the production of beers in the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development Minister, Donville Inniss, in an interview with the Advocate newspaper here, said that multinational corporations (MNCs) in the OECS were producing items and then benefiting from lower duties when those products enter Barbados.

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