Posts tagged Barbados

It’s a year since the world has been in the grips of COVID-19, the coronavirus that scientists believe to have originated from an outdoor market in Wuhan, China, declared a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) last march Since then, the virus has taken its toll globally: killing more than 2.8 million people, infecting close to 120 million, wrecking economies and disrupting life as we have come to know it over the past several decades. Over the past 12 months or so, governments around the world are still trying to wrestle control of this virus that is remarkable in its …

On Wednesday, January 20, Kamala Harris took the oath of office to become the first female, Black, and South Asian vice president of the United States of America, A monumental achievement, not so much for Harris but for a country in which systemic barriers have obstructed women of color from holding top political offices or other positions of influence. However Harris, the child of a famed Jamaican-born economist, Donald Harris and a cancer research scientist from India, Shyamala Gopalan made a habit of elevating above barriers as she made her way to the highest-ranking female elected official in the country’s …

It has been a grueling couple of weeks for family and friends of Michael Stanley, a well-known Montrealer who on December 21, was seriously injured in a vehicular accident in Barbados. The incident, which took place just outside the home Stanley shares with his wife, is described as a “freak accident.” He was sitting in car in the driveway of his house waiting on his wife Margareta Brathwaite and obviously blacked-out. Witnesses reported seeing the car careening down the short, dead-end street in front of his house and striking a gas-meter just moments before it plummeted down a 40-foot precipice. …