Word power - Barbados Today
A Government backbencher has signalled her disagreement with the decision to rename Independence Day, Barbados National Day.Member of Parliament for St Michael South Central and former Minister in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Investment Marsha Caddle has insisted that the word independence “means something”, a day after the name was officially dropped.“While it may seem desirable to unify all Barbadians under a non-specific, non-revolutionary Barbados National Day banner, the remaining need for revolution, the unfinished business of independence cannot be sanitised,” she declar...