#dinner with one of my friends there in Cherry Grove after a water taxi

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First trip all summer to Fire Island, definitely fun 😌

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The Chase Files Daily Newscap 20/1/2020

Good Morning #realdreamchasers. Here is your daily news cap for Monday January 19th, 2020. There is a lot to read and digest so take your time. Remember you can read full articles via Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS), Barbados Today (BT), or by purchasing a Daily Nation Newspaper (DN).

BARBADOS WON'T ATTEND MEETING WITH US OFFICIAL – Barbados will not be at the table when Caribbean leaders meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jamaica, tomorrow. This decision has been taken by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley who announced on Saturday night she would not be sending Foreign Minister Senator Jerome Walcott to the meeting.  Pompeo is scheduled to be in Jamaica for the two-day meeting with Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness and other Caribbean leaders and according to a release from the US State Department, he will “conduct a multi-lateral round table discussion” with the Caribbean leaders and also “deliver remarks on US-Caribbean relations.” Prime Minister  Mottley said at a gala to celebrate the centenary of the birth of The Right Excellent Errol W. Barrow on Saturday night:  “As chairman of CARICOM, it is impossible for me to agree that my Foreign Minister should attend a meeting to which members of CARICOM are not invited” and suggested it was an attempt at divide and rule among CARICOM countries “if some are invited and not all”. The Prime Minister reminded the audience of over 400 attending a fund-raising dinner hosted by the Errol and Nita Barrow Foundation at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, of the late National Hero’s famous statement “We will be friends of all and satellites of none”. (DN)

BIG UP BARROW – NO LESS THAN ANOTHER life-sized statue, and the transformation of his birth home into a museum, are what some St Lucy folk believe is a worthy tribute for National Hero Errol Walton Barrow. In recognition of what would have been Barrow’s centennial tomorrow, as part of the We Gatherin’ celebrations, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is expected to unveil a plaque a stone’s throw away at his birthplace at The Garden, St Lucy. However, as workers prepared the area yesterday ahead of the unveiling, some in the northern parish said while they appreciated the gesture of recognition, a “rock” next to a “bus stop” was not befitting of the colossus of the man widely revered as the “Father of Independence”. During the Democratic Labour Party’s (DLP) Errol Barrow Memorial Church Service at St Lucy’s Parish Church yesterday morning, rector Reverend Canon Curtis Goodridge said he strongly believed that a full-sized statue of Barrow should be pitched in St Lucy. Barrow was born in St Lucy on January 21, 1920, and baptised at St Lucy’s Parish Church on March 21 the same year. This was why Goodridge, during his sermon, contended that though there was already one of a similar size in Independence Square, The City, St Lucy’s Parish Church was the best place to have another monument. (DN)

DLP MAKING PROGRESS – LAST WEEK’S GUILTY VERDICT handed down to disgraced former Democratic Labour Party (DLP) minister Donville Inniss will not stop the party from moving forward, says its leader Verla De Peiza. She told the media after the party’s Errol Barrow Memorial Service at St Lucy’s Parish Church yesterday morning, that the selection process for new candidates was already in full swing. De Peiza said a lot of new faces were indicating their interest in running for the party but declined to state which riding most appealed to her. “The party is actively going through the candidate selection process right now, so I don’t want to be previous in my comments – not just St Lucy, all of the constituencies. We spent some time devising new rules for candidate selection and we are adhering to them. They apply to me like they apply to everybody else, so I am not in a position right now to give any information in relation to candidate selection anywhere at all in the 30 constituencies,” she said. In recent months there has been speculation about whether De Peiza wanted to represent St Lucy, where her family, including uncle, former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Philip Greaves, originated. (DN)

MORE WATER OUTAGES –Hundreds of people in the central and eastern parishes of Barbados will be without water after low reservoir levels forced the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) to shut down two reservoirs. The BWA says they were forced to stop pumping at the Bowmanston and Golden Ridge Pumping Stations and this may result in low levels and water outages to customers in districts across St John, St George, St Joseph, St Andrew and St Thomas.

The Authority apologised to customers for the inconvenience and said water tankers will be dispatched to the affected areas and the community tankers will also supply water as a temporary measure.

The following areas may be impacted:

IN ST JOHN: Cheshire, Eastmont, Small Hope, Moores Land, Carters, Gall Hill, Clifton Hall, Church View, Newcastle, Martins Bay, Zores Land, Pothouse, Glebe, Colleton, Cliff Cottage, Haynes Hill, Colleton Gardens, Coach Hill, Bath Land, Welch Village, Sargeant Street, Society, Massiah Street, Rose Gate, Guinea Land, Stewart Hill, Pool Land, Spooners, Wakefield Tenantry, Lemon Arbor, Cherry Grove, Four Roads, Sherbourne, Todds Tenantry, Macaroni Village, Henley and surrounding areas.

IN ST GEORGE: Golden Ridge Village, Ashbury and surrounding districts.

IN ST JOSEPH: Andrews Tenantry, Parris Hill, Blackmans, Coffee Gully, Branchbury, Surinam, Horse Hill, Tourville, Bonwell, Orange Grove, Bowling Alley, Vaughns Road 1&2, Vaughn's Church Village, Hortons, Easy Hall, Bruce Vale, Baxters, Fruitful Hill, Dark Hole, Coconut Grove, Upper & Lower Parks, Spa Hill, Mellows, St Bernard’s Village, Chimborazo, Sugar Hill, Braggs Hill, Lammings, Airy Hill and surrounding areas.

IN ST ANDREW: Apes Hill, Farmers, Hillaby, Church Gap, Turners Hall, White Hill and surrounding districts.

In St THOMAS: Dunscombe, Spring Farm, Porey Spring, Content Tenantry, Lower & Upper Canefield, Airy Cot, Sturges, Welchman Hall, Highland Lion Castle, Endeavour, Clifton Hill, Walkes Spring, Clifton Tenantry, Strong Hope, Carrington Village, Bloomsbury, Chapman Village, Friendship, Cane Garden and surrounding areas. (PR/SAT)

YOUNG SOCIALISTS CALL FOR ALL BARBADIANS TO GET INVOLVED IN CRIME FIGHT – Barbadians are being asked to stand up in combatting the upsurge in crime.   President of the League of Young Socialists, Kevon Henry made the call via a press statement, noting the crime situation in Barbados and the manner in which these acts have become more brazen. “Prime Minister, the Honorable Mia Amor Mottley had stated “not bout here” and we should echo this message. It is time that we have a serious conversation; realizing that the greater percentage of society is simply not interested in their theatre of war.” Henry said. In making reference to the most recent incident in which a man was shot just meters away from a school, Henry said, “It is wrong for the reckless few to continue to constantly interrupt our lives and livelihoods. It is worst for our children to be forced to witness and experience the trauma caused by these acts of brazen, anti-social behaviour.” The Young Socialist believes that is not only the job of the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Police, but of all Barbadians, to help restore order. “Let us not just clean the roads and gullies of our country, let us clean it of the criminal element; starting immediately by each of us doing our small part,” Henry stated. (DN)

MISSING TAXIMAN FOUND DEAD – WHILE a mother was making a tearful plea for help in searching for her missing son, unknown to her his body was being pulled from the sea after it was spotted at the bottom of a cliff in St Philip on Friday. And the death of Jason “Fowl Man” Hobbs, 35, of Apt 1 No. 72 Elizabeth Park, and Harmony Hall, both in Christ Church, has left his fellow taxi drivers calling on authorities to make it mandatory that cameras be installed in their vehicles. Hobbs, driver of Z1962, disappeared sometime last Tuesday. His mother Marselle Hobbs, said it was only after police came to her home on Wednesday that she realised he had not been heard from since the last time she saw him. When calls to family and friends did not yield any answers on Friday, she turned to the NATION and made an appeal for information. At the same time she was crying her heart out, her worst fears were being realised, as police announced the discovery of the decomposing body. Yesterday they confirmed that it was Jason’s which was spotted at Elbow Bay, Fortescue, St Philip, and eventually taken to the jetty at Consett Bay, St John. Marselle and Jason’s stepfather Jerome Moseley said during that appeal that Jason had moved out about a year-and-a-half earlier, but frequented the family home at Harmony Hall.When a NATION team visited Hobbs’ parents’ home yesterday, Moseley said he was not in a position to speak on the situation and was still traumatised. Last night he said they were on their way to Two Sons Funeral Home to view the body. (DN)

NOTICE: The public is advised that the Town and Country Development Planning Office, located at the Warrens Office Complex, Warrens, St Michael, will be closed between 9 a.m. and noon, Wednesday, January 22, to facilitate a staff meeting. (BGIS)

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