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It is quite baffling, that as a nation we project one reality when we know that on the ground, the average citizen sees the situation in a completely different vein.We speak to the issue of the return to full face-to-face classes in our schools since the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to introduce online teaching and then a hybrid process of education for the nation’s children.There is no denying that our children’s education has been harmed over the past two to three years and that we cannot continue to watch their performance deteriorate.The cognitive dissonance is...

Government is going back to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to get financing for a Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) plan 2.0.Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced on Friday that this time around, the arrangement would be for three years and once approved by the IMF, would unlock approximately US$130 million (BDS$260 million) in financing.She said entering another programme with the IMF – with the current four-year agreement concluding at month end – would also allow the country to access another US$210 million (BDS$420 million) under the Resilience and Sustainabili...

Barbados will be telling the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that its deadline for transition to a global minimum corporate tax is way too short for this country to properly implement.Prime Minister Mia Mottley told a news conference on Friday that as a result, she and her Director of Finance Ian Carrington will be meeting with the OECD at its headquarters in the French capital Paris on Monday to argue this country’s case for more time, especially considering that compliance would mean sacrificing about ten per cent of Barbados’ overall revenue.The global minim...

Prime Minister Mia Mottley is promising that Government will be working to make pharmaceuticals and other medical products more affordable for Barbadians, even if it has to resort to imposing price controls.She also announced that by next year, residents will know what plans the administration has to get them affordable access to health insurance.Mottley’s pledge to ensure savings on medical supplies – which she made without providing a timeline – comes just over a month after her administration implemented measures to reduce prices on supermarket shelves, at the gas pump, and on electri...

Prominent youth activist Roger Husbands says some of the members of violent gangs are among the island’s school population.He has therefore called on law enforcement officials and the Ministry of Education to ensure the bloodshed recently seen on the streets does not make its way into educational institutions when the new term begins in another two weeks.“One of my fears now is that school is about to start back and you have young gangsters and you have young guys who are actually running gangs who will be going back into the school system, and I want to encourage the Minister of Education...