Author: Clivette

PM sounds the trumpet with election date

February 02, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_9609" align="alignleft" width="300"] PNP President and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, flanked by Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips (right), Water and Climate Change Minister Robert Pickersgill and other candidates give the party’s clenched fist salute at last night’s rally.[/caption] Prime Minister and People’s National Party...

The Barbados economy: Firing on one cylinder

January 29, 2016 in Regional

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday January 29, 2016 – In Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king who did a lot of “wrong things” and was punished, according to Wikipedia, by “being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down,...

Buckley’s Uprising Remembered

January 29, 2016 in National

The Buckley’s Uprising of 28th January 1935 at Buckley’s Estate St Kitts, is one of the most defining moments in our country’s history, in terms of advancing the social, political and economic betterment of nationals. 81 years ago workers on estates finally took a stand against...