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Court-ordered steps to freedom
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low learner John Daniel Matthews has begun.
The first steps should be completed in three weeks as Matthews has consented to enrol in an adult education programme, a skills training programme and a remedial
reading programme.
Matthews, 24, of Brathwaite's Gap, Hindsbury Road, St Michael, was back before Justice Randall Worrell, in the No. 5 Supreme Court for sentencing after pleading guilty, earlier in the Sessions, to entering Mango Bay Hotel and Beach Club on February 26, 2004, with i ...
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SCHOOL LIMIT
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by WADE GIBBONS
NINE HUNDRED AND NO MORE.
That's the student roll limit the Government plans to fix at all secondary schools.
This is part of a major infrastructural improvement of Barbados' educational system.
It is one of several policies outlined in Government's Medium Term Development Strategy 2010-2014 which was prepared by the research unit of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Empowerment, Innovation, Trade, Industry and Commerce.
Without naming t ...
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Mum gives up 3 children
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by MARIA BRADSHAW
THREE NIGERIAN CHILDREN are now in the custody of the Child Care Board.
It is understood that their mother, a Nigerian nurse who was attached to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, took them there last Friday and told authorities that she could no longer care for them.
Director of the board, Joan Crawford, confirmed that the children were in their care but would give no additional information.
But reliable sources told the DAILY NATION that the woman was supposed to leave ...
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Husbands calls for new racetrack
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by GERCINE CARTER
BARBADOS MUST BUILD a new horse racing track to improve the fortunes of the sport since many international jockeys feel it is "too dangerous".
Barbadian-born, Canada-based champion jockey Patrick Husbands said on Monday: "A bigger, better racetrack would make Barbados the Las Vegas [of] horse racing in the Caribbean."
And he suggested that unless money was invested in building another track, the proposed night racing project would not enhance th ...
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More young children are being assaulted, says expert
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THE CHILD CARE BOARD is seeing an inceasing number of cases of abuse involving children between the ages of six and 11.
That's according to Colin St Hill, senior child care officer, who told the DAILY NATION what he'd been seeing was consistent with the finding in the international community - that the main form of sexual abuse occurs with a person who was known to the child, relatives or family friends.
"We are coming across a number of children who are engaging in sexual ...
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Sexual abuse rates 'alarming'
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by CHERYL HAREWOOD
THE RATE of sexual violence in the Caribbean surpasses the global average.
Furthermore, the region's criminal assizes reflect that 1.3 or 33 per cent of all offences, are of a sexual nature.
According to Jacqueline Sealy-Burke, attorney-at-law and advocate of children's rights and social justice, most cases involved women and children, with an alarmingly high number of child sexual abuse cases.
Sealy-Burke, who is working with Government and t ...
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First-timer with a wealth of ideas
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IN THE LAST two years lawyer/politician Stephen Lashley has built up a reputation as a man of ideas and a no-nonsense but fair regulator of parliamentary debates.
The former Government backbencher and Chairman of Committees in the House of Assembly is the new Minister of Family, Youth and Sports, replacing Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo.
As a backbencher, he has been credited with bringing depth to debate on a range of issues.
As Chairman of Committees, he ensures that debates do not get o ...
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Husbands back on top with Senate pick
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A YEAR AGO, labour relations specialist Harry Husbands was mulling over his abrupt sacking from the Barbados Employers' Confederation (BEC).
Today he is in a position where the BEC, which represents companies, may have to call on him to settle some of its disputes with trade unions.
Husbands was one of three new Senate appointments announced this week by Prime Minister David Thompson.
Thompson said the trade unionist and former BEC executive director would take up the position ...
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New senator has plans for youth
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HUMAN RESOURCES management consultant André Worrell plans to use his stint in the Senate to help young people close in on their dreams.
He told the DAILY NATION yesterday that he saw his role as helping to explain, interpret and implement the Democratic Labour Party's (DLP) Youth Manifesto and also to bring the perspective of young people to bear on a range of issues.
Prime Minister David Thompson on Tuesday named the 31-year-old president of the Young Democrats as one of thre ...
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Church 'is state's conscience'
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THE CHURCH HAS BEEN CAUTIONED that it should never be the master or servant of a country, but rather the state's conscience.
The advice came from chief executive officer of the Nation Publishing Company, Vivian-Anne Gittens, one of the presenters at a parish seminar held by the St David's Anglican Church at the Almond Bay Centre last weekend.
Gittens, quoting Martin Luther King and The Holy Bible, stressed that the church had to be the state's conscience, and that another ...
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