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A noted criminologist and academic has warned that despite sanctions, new laws, and regulatory bodies, corruption around the world is not abating.Nikos Passas, a Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Northeastern University warned that too many people in high office and directors of companies are willing to “mislead auditors and regulators and falsify records”.Professor Passas made the disclosure during a keynote address on day one of the virtual Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Caribbean Conference on Corruption, Compliance and Cybercrime (3Cs 2022) which has attracted over 1...

Good people can often face adversity and sometimes, they can find themselves doubting whether it really pays to do good or join the crowd looking on.Barbados’ latest youth hero is not a scholarship winner; she does not hail from one of the vaunted older secondary schools, neither does she come from a well-to-do family with wealth and social standing.However, she has qualities that Barbadians love and herald – a kind heart and care for others. She is 15-year-old Kerriesha Skeete, a student of the Frederick Smith Secondary School in St James.The teenager, who has been characterised by teache...

The top brass of the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) is assuring Barbadians they will have enough pork this Christmas.In an interview with Barbados TODAY, president Henderson Williams and chief executive officer James Paul said there would be no shortages of either pork or pork products even though statistics point to a decline in pigs slaughtered at the island’s main processing facility, HIPAC Ltd in recent months.Williams, who is also the head of the Barbados Pig Farmers’ Association, said that there was nothing unusual about the drop in numbers. He explained that coming out of the h...

The Barbados Association of Muslim Ladies (BAML) and the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados are partnering in an initiative to assist the Ministry of Education to execute its school nutrition policy.The two organisations have been donating water coolers to schools across the island and, to date, 13 have received the receptacles.During a handing over ceremony on Wednesday at the St Martin’s-Mangrove Primary School, the latest beneficiary of the initiative, BAML youth ambassador Haania Bulbulia said her organisation has been facilitating the programme by way of sponsorship and fundraisi...

Hundreds of Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) workers will have good reason to celebrate this Christmas with a share of just over $300 000 from Government.However, outspoken trade unionist and former Opposition senator Caswell Franklyn has described the payment as an attempt by Government to get SSA workers to stay with the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) with whom it is “more comfortable”.Chairman of the SSA Ramon Alleyne disclosed today that 601 SSA employees will be given $500 each from the Pandemic Levy Fund during the Government’s COVID-19 Humanitarian Awards Ceremony for f...