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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro meeting Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt on the sidelines of the CELAC summit in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines today, 1 March 2024

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The Chase Files Daily Newscap 8/7/2018

Good Morning #realdreamchasers! Here is The Chase Files Daily News Cap for Sunday 5th August 2018. Remember you can read full articles by purchasing Daily Nation Newspaper (DN), via Barbados Today (BT) or Barbados Government Information Services (BGIS).

INNISS ARRESTED, CHARGED IN US – Former Minister of Industry and Commerce Donville Inniss is in hot water in the United States. The outspoken 52-year-old politician was arraigned on money laundering charges in a US court today and released on US$50 000 bond. According to the United States Department of Justice’s official website, Inniss was arrested in Florida last Friday and was arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Julie Sneed in the Middle District of Florida at the federal courthouse in Tampa. Inniss has been accused of accepting bribes from a Barbadian insurance company in 2015 and 2016 when he was a public official.  According to the Department of Justice, Inniss was a legal permanent resident of the United States during the time of the charged conspiracy. Efforts to reach the former minister tonight proved futile. (DN)

MIA: BRING BACK THE ’POT – Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has indicated the Crop Over Festival needs to be re-examined for ways in which it can be improved. Sharing her thoughts on the festival when she made a stop at the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc.’s Black Rock stall yesterday, the Prime Minister said thought should be given to reintroducing Cohobblopot, which was discontinued in 2015. “I think we need to examine the festival, where we are. There are things that will always continue to be the same,” Mottley said. But she noted Cohobblopot for her was “not just a show” but “always an attitude to Barbados’ development, building the best out of us by putting all of us together and coming up with something that is unique to the Bajan.” This is why she thought it should be back on the calendar, while consideration should be given to adding new events, considering the interests of the generations of Barbadians who will be exposed to the festival in the future. (DN)

SMALL TAKES TOP AWARD – Twice is nice. Designer Kevin Small has once again taken the Robert Weekes Award for Best Festival Designer in the Republic Bank Grand Kadooment. The young bandleader for Fifth Element brought Street Talk for his theme this year. Since he won best band for Junior Kadooment he has the most value points needed to cop the prestigious award. His prize this year is a car from MQI and $7 500 cash. Small also copped 11 other individual prizes including Small band Of The Year, Traditional, Presentation Of The Year,  Most Colourful Small band, Community Costume and Best Individual Male which he wore himself, among others. He placed third in Best Band On The Road.   (DN)

LIL RICK'S MUDDA SALLY TAKES TUNE OF THE CROP – Tune Of The Crop belongs to Lil Rick. The hitmaker can claim supremacy this year in the National Cultural Foundation’s Crop Over festival. Musically that is. Apart from the Pic-O-De-Crop competition which he didn't not enter, he has placed first (Sweet Soca), tied with himself for first second and third (Foreday Morning Jam) and now can claim the Tune Of The Crop title. He placed first with Mudda Sally, earning himself $7 500. He then placed third with True Story, adding $2 000 to the tally for today. Mikey squeezed in between to take second place with Feting Family, earning himself $5 000. Mikey is also the People’s Monarch and Party Monarch for 2018. (DN)

GRAND PROPOSAL FOR ALEX AND INGRID – Visitor Alex Petalas today made a grand gesture to his girlfriend Ingrid Robinson when he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him during the Republic Bank Grand Kadooment. On top of the Aura truck, in front of hundreds of revellers, Petalas expressed his unadulterated love for Robinson before asking her the question at approximately 1:11 p.m. She responded with a loud yes, and her response was met with loud cheers and applause from those on the truck as well as those on the ground, after the deejay offered congrats over the mic. The newly engaged Robinson stood staring at her ring in awe for several minutes while wiping tears away. The couple are visiting from San Francisco and played mas with Aura today and said they thoroughly enjoyed it, as it was the perfect celebration for their engagement.  (DN)

SECURITY, SANITATION ON THEIR TOES – Security and sanitation crews were on the ball as usual yesterday during the Republic Bank Grand Kadooment. Police and soldiers were spotted all along the routes, ably supported by the men and women of the Roving Response Team. “Basically our role as emergency responders is to assist any agency, whether it be medical or logistical, through the Department of Emergency Management. We also give accurate reports on the number of bands which have passed,” said responder Stephen Niles, who was posted at the Brighton staging area. He said it had been quiet up to 1 p.m., but cautioned that things usually got hectic later in the day. “People start to get drunk and misbehave and then there are medical issues,” he said. By the end of the day and up to press time, police had reported only minor incidents. As for the annual clean-up, the Sanitation Service Authority was seen along Black Rock, St Michael, around 7 p.m. collecting the plastic bottles, pieces of costumes and general refuse. Supervisor Rudolph Bascombe estimated it would take them another hour and a half to finish but assured they were on schedule. (DN)

PM RAPPED FOR ACCEPTING UNIVERSITY – Some irate Dominicans have harshly criticised Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley for accepting the relocation of Ross University School of Medicine. One even called for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to sanction the newly elected leader for what has been termed an “act of economic aggression” against a sister nation. Last Friday, hours after Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced Ross University would be leaving Dominica after 40 years, Mottley and Adtalem Global Education president and chief executive officer Lisa Wardell were in turn revealing Barbados would be the new home of the American university. Dominicans expressed their anger and disappointment on social media. What made the cut even worse, one argued, was that it happened after Skerrit flew to Barbados and met with the new Prime Minister following the May 24 General Election, which the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) won by a clean sweep of the 30 seats at stake. (DN)

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Bajan Newscap 2/12/2017

Good Morning #realdreamchasers! Here is your daily news cap for Monday 13th February 2017. Remember you can read full articles via Barbados Today (BT) or by purchasing a Daily Nation Newspaper (DN).

'BAD MOVE' – A BACKWARD STEP! That is how president of the Barbados Association of Guidance Counsellors feels about the news  that a psychiatric clinic for children is being built at the Psychiatric Hospital. Rather, Saul Leacock is strongly recommending that the much-needed clinic be built “at an independent, neutral place not connected with the Psychiatric Hospital”. He was responding to an announcement by David Leacock, director of the Black Rock, St Michael institution, that the Sandy Lane Children’s Trust had committed to constructing a facility for children on that compound. He also revealed that a high number of children, both from primary and secondary schools, were being referred for psychiatric care. (DN)

HYATT OK – The controversial Hyatt hotel has been given the green light. Declaring that the decision was in fact taken in the seven-day time frame he had promised almost three weeks ago, Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart told a meeting of his St Michael South branch at Bay Primary School last night that he had given the necessary planning permissions for the 15-storey hotel to go up on Bay Street, St Michael, in part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. “The matter was referred to me as Minister of Town Planning and I granted permission, after all the conditions that I thought had to be met were met for the construction of that hotel on Bay Street. “Obviously because Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison has certain features about it, what we have insisted on is that the hotel should reflect what the architects call the architectural language of that part of that part of Bay Street . . . is being incorporated into the design of the new hotel to be put there so that it will not be inconsistent; it will not stick out like a sore thumb in that general area where it’s going to be constructed,” Stuart said. (DN)

NEW MASSY TO COST $50 MILLION - The Massy supermarket being constructed at Sunset Crest, St James, will cost $50 million to build. The price tag of the new structure, scheduled to be completed by November, was revealed by Massy (Barbados) Ltd country manager Frere Delmas yesterday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil the refurbished Holetown Monument as the Holetown Festival kicked off. Delmas told the DAILY NATION that the complex would house several Massy businesses and be staffed by 170 employees. The transformation of the area began with the demolition of the 50-year-old West Coast Mall, last month, which was executed over a three-week period by Innotech Services Ltd. (DN)

MORE PERMISSION WORRIES FOR BIZZY –Businessman Ralph “Bizzy” Williams has cited another instance of the authorities apparently dragging their feet when it comes to his solar power ventures. Not only has the Williams Industries executive chairman been waiting for more than two years for permission to develop the country’s largest solar farm at Cane Garden, St Thomas, he also revealed that plans to increase the solar panels powering Sky Mall had been at a standstill. Speaking to the media during a promotional giveaway at the Haggatt Hall, St Michael shopping facility on Saturday, Williams said that while Sky Mall had installed 150 kilowatt panels on the roof, it could hold 400. He expressed frustration at the red tape involved in getting approval from the state. (DN)

TAX AMNESTY TO END TO ON FEBRUARY 15TH– The Barbados Revenue Authority is reminding all taxpayers that the Tax Amnesty Programme will end on Wednesday, February 15. The programme is in respect of the following taxes where 100 per cent of penalty and interest is waived: Income Tax, Corporation Tax, PAYE, Value Added Tax and Land Tax. In August 2016, Finance Minister Chris Sinckler announced that Government would offer the tax amnesty from September 15, 2016 through to February 15, 2017 for taxpayers who owe outstanding value added tax (VAT), income tax and land tax. Sinckler said taxpayers would have to pay the outstanding principal on or before the deadline to benefit from the amnesty. (BT)

BFVA TO HOLD ELECTIONS FEBRUARY 27TH - The Barbados Film and Video Association (BFVA) will hold a by-election on February 27 to choose a new public relations officer (PRO). Singer and television producer Jamal Slocombe parted ways with the BFVA, less than two months after Slocombe took up the post as the organization’s spokesman. “Moving forward, there will be a general meeting on February 27, 2017 where this matter can be addressed further,” BFVA President Damien Pinder said in a notice to members, a copy of which was shared with Barbados TODAY. “This meeting will also feature a by-election where the membership will choose a new public relations officer and assistant secretary treasurer, as the elected person to that post, Ramona Grandison, had to resign as a result of conflict of interest with her job.” Slocombe’s short-lived relationship with the association officially ended Tuesday, February 7, after he was forced to resign as PRO. (BT)

ILLEGAL STRUCTURES ‘STILL A CHALLENGE’ – Squatters and those with illegal extensions to structures are not off the radar of the Town Planning Department, as the Chief Town Planner revealed the biggest challenge came from offenders in Zone 1. Mark Cummins said the majority of lawbreakers who were ordered to tear down the offending structures usually complied. “Nine out of ten times after we send out a warning letter, the person will seek to conform. The biggest challenge we have rests with persons who occupy Zone 1 areas where that then becomes a threat to the water supply,” he told the DAILY NATION. The department has not carried out any enforcement notices so far this year but, said Cummins, there were plans to do so. However, he did not disclose how many, or the locations. (DN)

RESIDENTS CRY OUT FOR STENCH – The children are fainting, wheezing and have ringworm. And the parents in one St George neighbourhood are placing the blame on pig and duck pens in their midst, as well on the illegal dumping of household garbage and offal in a nearby quarry. “It’s the environment,” declared Sandra Elcock. She, along with her sister Andrea, mother Sheila and nieces and nephews, along with Jan-Eve Brathwaite and her mother Sherald, all live at Old Post Office Road, St George. The two owners of the pens are their neighbours. When the DAILY NATION visited the area, both small farmers were  not at home. Subsequent efforts to reach both men were unsuccessful. (DN)

SHOCKED BY STABBING DEATH –After 24 years in the United States, Earl Tudor returned to Barbados last July to spend his retirement. Five months later, he was dead at the age of 60, the victim of what relatives said was a knife attack during a late-night robbery at Green Hill, St Michael, not far from his home. They are wondering why his death never made headline news, and why the police have never sent out an appeal concerning the two armed assailants who took his life last December. A cousin who was with him was very emotional as she spoke to the DAILY NATION about the attack, but asked that her name be withheld because she was afraid for her life. (DN)

DOMINICA OPPOSITION LEGISLATOR RELEASED - Police have released opposition legislator Dr Thomson Fontaine but he has been told that he should return to Police Headquarters on Monday at 9 a.m. He was released pending further investigation. After his release Fontaine was greeted by a jubilant crowd of supporters who shouted, “Free Dr. Fontaine” and “[Prime Minister Roosevelt] Skerrit must go”. He was carried through the streets by those in the crowd. On Sunday afternoon, Fontaine was picked up by members of the Special Security Unit (SSU) moments after he left his radio show on Q95. On Saturday, the home of the opposition legislator was searched by police. While police are yet to explain their actions, Opposition Leader Lennox Linton said in a Facebook post that Fontaine was taken into custody “under instructions from the Skerrit dictatorship to imprison him for speaking the truth and standing up for the good of Dominica”. After learning of Fontaine’s arrest, a crowd quickly gathered outside Police Headquarters. Police in military wear kept a heavy presence in the area. (BT)

JAMAICAN SCIENTISTS CLOSE TO CREATING AFFORDABLE HEPATITIS C DRUG FROM GANJA - Research scientists, led by Dr Henry Lowe, say they have discovered properties in Cannabidiol (CBD), one of the major bioactive compounds in the cannabis (ganja) plant, that have the potential to provide affordable treatment as nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals for hepatitis C. “We report here for the first time n vitro studies to demonstrate the antiviral activity of CBD against HCV,” Dr Lowe and his research team —Jamaican Wayne McLaughlin and Cameroonian Dr Ngeh Toyang — state in their published study, adding that Cannabidiol was shown to have activity against HCV in vitro but not against hepatitis B virus (HBV). On Friday, Lowe, who is known worldwide for his anti-cancer and ganja research, as well as the production of a range of nutraceuticals using Jamaican plants, said that the discovery is a major development. “This is a new discovery which has fantastic potential for the future, especially for people in developing countries, because there is a drug which was developed for hepatitis C treatment, but it’s over US$85,000 per treatment and very few people in the developing world can afford this,” he said. “So it is very important that we find less expensive means of treatment, and that is why this discovery and its potential to manage this disease is so important. (BT)

TAKE SPORTS BACK INTO THE COMMUNITIES - Community activist Rodney Grant is calling for sports to be returned at the community level. He made the assertion at the opening ceremony of the inaugural Burger King/Sky Mall National Housing Community Netball Festival. Using the David Thompson Memorial Constituency Council’s Football Classic as  an example, he noted that type of football brought communities closer, and it was time sports of that magnitude were returned to the communities across the island. “It is important to have these types of activities within the communities. I always say the whole idea of centralising netball and football is a very bad idea. To be able to take everything up to the National Stadium was never supported because it breaks down the fabric of the community. (DN)

BAJANS GO DOWN –Barbados suffered consecutive defeats at the hands of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, losing 4-3 and 6-2 respectively, when the International Beach Soccer Tournament continued at Brandons on Saturday night. In another game, top-ranked England narrowly defeated a determined Antigua and Barbuda side 6-5 with Aaron Clarke again starring for the winners with a hat-trick. The first encounter saw Barbados and Guyana searching desperately for a first win, and it showed in the early exchanges. The opening goal in an evenly contested affair eventually arrived just before the end of the first period. A penalty to Guyana following a foul was converted by Deshawn Joseph, who dusted himself down and calmly finished past Mario Albert to put his side ahead 1-0. (DN)

NAPSAC STARTS TODAY –The battle for Primary Schools’ athletics supremacy will begin today on the Ryan Brathwaite Track at the Usain Bolt Sports Complex. This year’s National Primary Schools Athletics Championships will get underway at 10 a.m. with 18 schools contesting the Barbados Teachers Cooperative Credit Union Obadele Thompson Zone. Last year’s double crown champions, St Catherine will be going up against Boscobel, Chalky Mount, Half Moon Fort, St Ambrose, St Bernard’s, St Elizabeth, St Margaret’s, St James, St Philip, St Mark’s, Eagles Academy, Trinity Academy, Wills Preparatory, Workman’s, Erdiston Special School, Warrens and Lite Primary. Tomorrow will be the turn of the schools in the NATION-sponsored Patsy Callender Zone, followed by the Rubis Caribbean Andrea Blackett Zone on Wednesday. The Wibisco Anton Norris Zone will be on Thursday and the Scotiabank James Wedderburn Zone will be contested on Friday. Today’s events will also be streamed on napsacbdos.com. (DN)

CROSSES IN REMEMBRANCE – It was two weeks ago that Barbados and St Vincent woke up to the news that four young lives had been lost in a horrific crash at the Graeme Hall, Christ Church section of the ABC Highway. Friends, relatives and former colleagues of The Crane Hotel gathered at The People’s Baptist Church in Rock Hall, St Philip, on Saturday afternoon to say a final farewell to 22-year-old Andre Gittens, who was driving the vehicle in which he and three young women from St Vincent were travelling when the accident occurred. Two other Vincentians, Kemelius Boyea, 21, and 18-year-old Darren Renaldo Daniel, were also travelling in the vehicle and sustained injuries, but they survived. Before the service began, four crosses bearing the names of Vincentians Danee Horne, 17, Carianne Padmore, 18, Aziza Dennie, 19, and Barbadian Gittens, with RIP at the top, were stationed on the section of the road opposite the Ministry of Agriculture, where the crash occurred. The bodies of Horne, Padmore and Dennie were shipped back to St Vincent on board the Melina II last Thursday. (DN)

PROMINENT BARBADIAN ARTIST FIELDING BABB PASSES - Prominent Barbadian artist Fielding Babb is dead. Babb, who was born in 1935, died on Saturday. He was known for his work using oils built up in layers with a palette knife to create a three dimensional effect. The subject of his paintings is usually historical Barbadian buildings or traditional scenes such as Barbadians pushing fruit carts. In 2003 Babb was the recipient of the Lifetime Award in the Visual Arts and the Barbados Centennial Honour. (BT)

AL JARREAU DIES DAYS AFTER HE QUITS TOURING –Jazz and R&B singer Al Jarreau, a seven-time Grammy winner whose hits included We’re in This Love Together and Moonlighting, died on Sunday in Los Angeles at age 76, just days after announcing he was retiring from touring because of poor health. His Facebook page said Jarreau “passed away this morning, at about 600am LA time. He was in the hospital, kept comfortable by his wife, son, and a few of his family and friends”. No cause of death was given. Jarreau was hospitalised for exhaustion last week and forced to cancel his remaining tour dates for 2017. He announced on Wednesday he was giving up touring.  (DN)

BRITAIN AT BLACKETT’S FEET – A Barbados golden jubilee award winner has been named as Britain’s most influential black person.  Karen Blackett, OBE, was promoted from chief executive officer to chairwoman of Britain’s biggest media agency, MediaCom, at the beginning of 2016, in recognition of her dynamic 22 years in propelling the company forward. Blackett was born in Reading, Berkshire. Her late father came over from Barbados to work as a bus conductor but later retrained as an electrician.  He married her mother Eileen and they had two children, Sue and Karen. (DN)

MIXED BAG AT GRAMMYS - Pop superstar Beyonce, proudly caressing her pregnant belly, took the Grammys stage by storm on Sunday on a night marked by political statements, sentimental tributes and a misstep by British singer Adele. In her first public appearance since her surprise announcement 12 days ago that she is expecting twins, Beyonce donned a sheer, glittering gold dress and halo to sing a medley of emotional ballads Love Drought and Sandcastles from Lemonade, her Grammy-nominated album about feminism, race and betrayal. Moments later though, it was Adele who literally stopped the show after flubbing the start of a tribute to the late British pop star George Michael. “I'm sorry. I know it’s live TV,” she said, cursing, stopping her slow ballad version of Michael’s Fast Love and asking to start again. “I can’t mess this up for him (Michael),” she said. Adele was given a standing ovation after completing the song, one of two separate tributes to Michael and musician Prince, both of whom died unexpectedly in 2016. Beyonce went into Sunday’s awards show with a leading nine nominations and won two in the early going, saying the intention of the album was to show all women they could be “beautiful, intelligent and capable”. She is competing head-on with Adele, 28, the only other artist to be nominated for all three top awards – album, song and record of the year – to be handed out at the end of the show. Adele took two early awards, beating Beyonce in the pop vocal performance category, and her best-selling 25 also won for pop vocal album. (DN)

Well that’s all for today folks. There are 321 days left in the year                 Shalom! #thechasefiles #dailynewscaps Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram for your daily news. #bajannewscaps #newscapsbystephaniefchase

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Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerritt praised PM Modi for sending Corona vaccine

Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerritt praised PM Modi for sending Corona vaccine

Updated Wed, 10th Feb 2021 09:49 PM IST Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt of the Caribbean country Dominica has praised his Indian counterpart Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending the Kovid-19 vaccine. At the same time, he said that he never imagined that his request to India would be responded to so quickly. He said that being the leader of a small island nation with a population of 72,000,…

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Lucky

D: John Carroll Lynch

Lucky is, before anything else, a beautiful and elegant wake for a great actor. it wouldn’t have been made without Harry Dean Stanton and is sadly framed by his death this earlier this year. It’s a modest, almost offhand film that tackles mortality and aging on a level that recalls John Huston’s “The Dead” and Johnny Cash’s “Hurt,” and “I Feel a Darkness” (which scores a particularly moving sequence). It’s about making peace with inevitability.

Lucky is an 88-year-old who lives alone in a small Arizona desert town. His life is framed by routine: yoga exercises in the morning, visit to a diner in the afternoon, a bloody mary at his favorite bar with a crowd of genial eccentrics including Howard (David Lynch) who is mourning the disappearance of Mr. Roosevelt, his pet tortoise. The script skirts the edge of preciousness but never falls in, especially after a fall makes Lucky realize that he’s approaching a frailty that could threaten his independence and an awareness of death that’s becoming harder to avoid. The film touches on these themes without wallowing in them and lets Stantons performance (and that face) bring them to light. It’s in the way he sings at a wedding, his deferential respect for a fellow World War II veteran (Tom Skerritt) the fear and determination in his eyes. There’s no vanity in his performance but it was a great way to bow out.

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Dominican Prime Minister on Mehul Choksi, courts will decide what happens to this gentleman | The Prime Minister of Dominica said - Mehul Choksi's rights will be respected, the decision left on the court

Dominican Prime Minister on Mehul Choksi, courts will decide what happens to this gentleman | The Prime Minister of Dominica said – Mehul Choksi’s rights will be respected, the decision left on the court

New Delhi: Every effort is being made to bring Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam accused Mehul Choksi to India. At present he is in Dominica and Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt has given a big statement regarding the same return. ‘Respect for Choksi’s rights’ Prime Minister Skerit said that the rights of Indian citizen Mehul Choksi will be fully respected and the court will decide on the further…

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Lucky

D: John Carroll Lynch

Lucky is, before anything else, a beautiful and elegant wake for a great actor. it wouldn’t have been made without Harry Dean Stanton and is sadly framed by his death this earlier this year. It’s a modest, almost offhand film that tackles mortality and aging on a level that recalls John Huston’s “The Dead” and Johnny Cash’s “Hurt,” and “I Feel a Darkness” (which scores a particularly moving sequence). It’s about making peace with inevitability.

Lucky is an 88-year-old who lives alone in a small Arizona desert town. His life is framed by routine: yoga exercises in the morning, visit to a diner in the afternoon, a bloody mary at his favorite bar with a crowd of genial eccentrics including Howard (David Lynch) who is mourning the disappearance of Mr. Roosevelt, his pet tortoise. The script skirts the edge of preciousness but never falls in, especially after a fall makes Lucky realize that he’s approaching a frailty that could threaten his independence and an awareness of death that’s becoming harder to avoid. The film touches on these themes without wallowing in them and lets Stantons performance (and that face) bring them to light. It’s in the way he sings at a wedding, his deferential respect for a fellow World War II veteran (Tom Skerritt) the fear and determination in his eyes. There’s no vanity in his performance but it was a great way to bow out.

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Is Paris our last hope for survival?

Is Paris our last hope for survival?

Traffic was terrible last Friday while the remnants of Tropical Storm Grace were passing through Barbados. As I was sitting for hours in the rain, I had more than enough time to think about how Dominica was decimated by a mere storm and also how the island’s development was set back 20 years, according to their Prime Minister, the Honourable Roosevelt Skerritt, in his address to the nation. This…