The recent appointment of Leslie Haynes to the post of Chief Justice of Barbados has drawn attention to a problem successive governments have failed to solve - a burgeoning case load that continues to compromise the delivery of justice in a timely fashion in our court system.
A seasoned real estate professional is suggesting that owners of unoccupied properties in Bridgetown convert them into housing that would attract middle-income earners.This suggestion has come from Real Estate Broker Arthur Ramsay, Managing Director of Ramsay Real Estate, who lauded the Mia Mottley administration for its plans to transform the old seven-storey Treasury Building into a residential facility.Government has earmarked the now-decommissioned Treasury Building that once housed the Treasury Department, the Central Bank, Inland Revenue Department and then the Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA), for housing development that would see studio and two-bedroom apartments on the upper floors and commercial entities on the ground floor.As part of its broad plan to redevelop Bridgetown, Government has also been developing housing areas on the outskirts of The City, with the latest being the high-rise housing development at Whitepark Road.Ramsay, who has some 28 years’ experience in var
President of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Dr Ronnie Yearwood has questioned whether Government really needed to spend $10.4 million on new national identification cards for the population.And the Alliance Party for Progress (APP) has raised concerns about the timing of the big expense, given the economic challenges facing the country and its residents.During a press conference on Wednesday, Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology (MIST) Davidson Ishmael revealed that $10 434 601.99 had been spent to introduce the Trident cards that will replace the existing plastic IDs that authorities say are outdated and susceptible to fraud. He said the money had been spread over the last two financial years.However, Dr Yearwood told Barbados TODAY he believed a basic ID card, which would have been a far less costly undertaking, was all that was required.He questioned why the Mia Mottley administration had chosen a card that stores Barbadians’ personal information rather than
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