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Venezuela in financial difficulty, will Petro Caribe survive?
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday November 27, 2014 – The government of Venezuela is undoubtedly disappointed with the outcome of the 166th meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) held in Vienna, Austria on…
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Inadequate response to Ebola should not be repeated with Chickungunya
By Sir Ronald Sanders BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday November 20, 2014 – The good news is that a prophylactic vaccine against chikungunya, developed by the Austrian biotech company Themis Bioscience GmbH, is reported to induce a significant neutralizing immune response to…
Letter to the Editor
Arrested for fighting slavery? Modern slavery couldn’t be closer to home for Biram Dah Abeid. The twelfth of thirteen children born to an enslaved mother, Biram was released from a life of servitude while still in the womb.1 His release…
Did PM Gonsalves fail to inform the people about the status of the Wikileak disclosures?
By Peter Binose There are at least thirty five Wikileak releases of cables from the US Ambassador in Barbados to the US that carry reference or contain PM Gonsalves name, some of which carry derogatory statements, some of which may…
Chikungunya preparedness: What happened?
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: A Caribbean subregional workshop introducing the new guidelines for preparedness and response for chikungunya virus was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel from May 28-30, 2012. The big question is what…
Anti-Obama forces cloud global stability
By Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday November 13, 2014 – With just 2 years effectively left in Barack Obama’s Presidency of the United States, the world suddenly looks set to face even more danger than it does currently….
Letter to the Editor
The darkest day for democracy in Guyana By Hon. Brigadier David A. Granger To The Editor: A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is enraged at President Donald Ramotar’s promulgation of a proclamation to prorogue parliament on Monday Nov., 10, 2014….
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The Editor Speaks: Why we should remember/Letter to the Editor
Editorial Why we should remember This weekend it is Remembrance Day. Many of us will be at Elmslie Memorial Church to watch the moving ceremony there as we remember. The majority of those there will not have anything to remember….
Remarks – Veterans Day 2014 — I still remember
From The Villager Newspaper We veterans from World War II are getting up in years, but we can still remember the Great Depression of the ‘30s and where we were on that fateful Dec. 7, 1941 — a day that…
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IMF show zero tolerance for zero-rating in Barbados VAT regime
By Patrick Hoyos From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday November 6, 2014 – Regaining control of the VAT base is critical in a small open economy such as Barbados that relies heavily on imports, says a new IMF report, and the…
