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#BTColumn – Sir Courtney Blackman on vision
Article by May 6, 2021
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by
Ralph Jemmott
The passing of Sir Courtney Blackman has left another void in the intellectual culture of Barbados. Over the last two decades we have lost a number of what some call, “engaged intellectuals.”
These comprised persons such as Gladstone Holder, Richard Allsopp, Leonard St. Hill, Leonard Shorey, Oliver Jackman and Frances Chandler. They comprised a cadre of commentators to whom one could turn for informed, critical, balanced and objectively measured judgment, whether we agreed with them or not.
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Educator Daryll Jordan passed away on Saturday morning. He was in his mid-80s.
Jordan served as the first principal of the St Lucy Secondary School from the time it was officially opened by then Minister of Education Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, now Sir Lloyd, on October 28 1971, until he retired in 1995.
On November 9, 2012, the school was officially renamed Daryll Jordan Secondary School in his honour.
Jordan received his early education at All Saints Boys’ and Coleridge and Parry School.
During his tenure at St Lucy Secondary, according to historian Dr Henderson Carter, he established community service projects, incentive schemes to acknowledge good behavior and set up the home/school programme which fostered better relationships between parents and teachers. Home visits by teachers were a part of that experience.
Opposition wants better for politicians
Article by December 16, 2020
The Opposition Leader has thrown his support behind St Philip West MP John King’s call for better treatment of parliamentarians, past and present.
During his remarks on Tuesday in the House of Assembly, Leader of the Opposition Bishop Joseph Atherley stated that he agreed that politicians should be treated better and called for a framework that speaks to the many issues they face.
“I have said this before nobody probably listened until it is them to be honoured,” said Atherley. “It first dawned on me when having served as prime minister of this country and especially in difficult times and having taken a principled position in terms of economic policy and suffering for it, I saw Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford after he has ceased being prime minister struggling to find a car park space attending some event around Parliament. That hurt me to see that and it hit me then we don’t treat ou