Opinion

Children also need justice

Caribbean ministers with responsibility for families, human resources, youth, social services and social and community development met over two days in Barbados—Tuesday and yesterday—to focus on ending sexual violence against children by the use of integrated region-wide strategies.

The decision to site the 1823 monument was made without prior consultation and without seeking approval from the municipality

Dear Editor, Yesterday’s newspaper confirmed the unbelievable.  Last week representatives from ACDA, The Manumitted African Descendants Organization, Pan African Movement, and some religious bodies complained that the monument (to honour the rebels who were hanged in the Parade Ground, renamed Independence Park) will be built somewhere on Carifesta Avenue; there was no appropriate consultation.

Negotiating Syria’s political minefield

Last week a body named the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces emerged out of a protracted and acrimonious discourse in Doha amongst the various factions now positioning themselves to influence the course of events in post-Assad Syria.

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