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Professor Richard Albert, delivering the public lecture themed The Grenade, the Hourglass and the Sundial: The Lifetime of Constitutions, at the Henry Frase ...

Chairman of the Constitutional Reform Commission, Justice (retd) Christopher Blackman, is urging Barbadians to participate in the upcoming public meetings, and make suggestions for inclusion in the new Constitution of Barbados. Blackman made the comments ahead of the first meeting, which will be held on Sunday, October 16, at The St. Michael School, Martindales Road, St Michael, from 5 to 8 p.m. The Chairman said: “The meetings will provide an …

A retired Human Resources management official who was responsible for employee matters at the prestigious Sandy Lane Hotel admitted to the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) on Thursday that the company breached the legislative procedures for disciplining employees when it fired laundry supervisor Alfred Branch forthwith in February 2014.Then Assistant Director of Human Resources Winifred Williams also agreed with Branch’s attorney Rhea Cheltenham that Sandy Lane even breached its own internal disciplinary procedure with regard to an earlier matter concerning the former employee.Williams testi...

Queen’s Counsel Garth Patterson wants the newly installed Constitutional Reform Committee to initiate public discourse on social and political areas of the Constitution. They include the right to vote, property rights, the uncertainty surrounding the capital punishment of hanging as well as the now topical abortion rights which Patterson said are serious social and political matters that require public feedback and a strengthening of the relevant laws. He has been …

The ten Barbadians who will jointly chart a new path that will lead to a new Constitution were sworn in early this morning at State House. Acting President of Barbados, Reverend Jeffrey Gibson first swore in Chairman of the Constitutional Review Commission, retired Court of Appeal Judge, Christopher Blackman. The retired jurist, followed by former Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite; former president of the Senate, Kerryann Ifill; attorneys-at-law Gregory Nicholls and …