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by Britanny Brathwaite Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados TODAY Inc. Just about everyone has suffered loss in the past year- in an employment context, the loss of revenue for employers and the commensurate loss of income for employees is and will continue to be a central issue across the region and particularly here in Barbados. While business owners, practitioners, and the like, may have previously crafted Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), cognisant of us being naturally prone to disasters, I...

La Soufrière’s Good Friday 1979 eruption marked by explosion Article by April 14, 2021 St Vincent’s La Soufrière volcano heralded the 42nd anniversary of its Good Friday 1979 eruption with a classic, dramatic explosion that sent a towering mushroom cloud of ash and rock splinters miles into the air. It has been five days since the volcano has been shooting its gas-rich magma out of the crater, sometimes in towering ash columns, or in sending pyroclastic flows down its slopes. The interspersed tremors accompanied by explosions or venting have been changing pattern ove...

April 13, 2021 Were there any legitimate arguments against the contention that the Caribbean has one of the highest levels of vulnerability to natural and man-made disasters, it has been greatly diminished by the events of late. Some people still hold the view that climate change and adverse weather and climate events, are simply acts of God. That floods, destructive hurricanes, sea level rise, excessively hot days, fires in the Amazon Forest and even the miles of excessive sargassum seaweed, are just acts of nature; the way life is expected to evolve. We know from all the evidence ...

#BTColumn – They divide and rule Article by April 8, 2021 Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados TODAY Inc. by Jasmine Yearwood The joint government and mass media campaign to instill fear in the populace, and turn neighbour against neighbour has been overwhelmingly successful globally. Barbadians, have been divided between those who choose to exercise their freedom, and those who tut-tut with derision and personally blame them for the government imposed restrictions on theirs....

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