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Eric Lewis, madder than most over the proposed extension to 72 from 67 of Barbados' retirement age.

Bajans Not So Retiring

Madder than that. Entertainer and social commentator Eric Lewis is among the thousands of Barbadians upset over government’s suggestion to move the retirement age to 72. Photo Copyright © 2022.

George Lamming, the celebrated Barbadian author of the classic novel In the Castle of My Skin, died June 4, 2022, just four days shy of his ninety-fifth birthday, in Barbados.

George Lamming, Going Home

George Lamming, 1927-2022. Photo Copyright © 2002 by Ronnie Carrington.

HOW IMPORTANT is a book, any book? To any one person, people, time, or place?

Weights & Measures by Linda M. Deane, April 2022.

Voting for Real: The Weight and Measure of an X

What's the worth of an X? A woman's vote? A man's life? Our better world? Illustration Copyright © 2022 by Linda M. Deane.

Russian protests against Putin's invasion of Ukraine, February 2022.

When Sovereignty Is Not a Choice

Protests in Russia against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Photo Copyright © 2022 by The Punch.

My patriotic, festive TV stand, Christ Church, Barbados, December 2021.

Republican Reflections

My patriotic, festive TV stand, Christ Church, Barbados, December 2021. Photo Copyright © 2022 by Robert Edison Sandiford.

Table talk with Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley. Illustration by Izora Devonish, August 2021.

Dear Mia, come lewwe talk…

Table talk, everything in one. Illustration Copyright © 2021 by Izora Devonish.

DEAR MIA,

Horace I Goddard, February 10,1947-November 20, 2020.

Passing On, Lifting Up: Remembering Horace I. Goddard

Montreal writer, educator and community activist Horace I. Goddard had a commitment to community first nurtured in Barbados. Photo Copyright © 2020 by Kola.

World Press Freedom Day Poster, May 3, 2021.

Vigilance: An Editorial for World Press Freedom Day

UNESCO poster reminds us there's still work to be done to protect freedom of speech and journalists, maybe now more than ever.

American poet Amanda Gorman reading at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden January 20, 2021.

Letters to Foreign Friends: A Good Day for Poets

Cloaked in hope: American poet Amanda Gorman reading at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden, January 20, 2021. Photo Copyright © 2021 by Rob Carr/Getty Images.

Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley addressing the UN in 2019.

Barbados a Republic: Three Times a Charm?

Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking at the United Nations in 2019. Barbados' first Prime Minister, Errol Barrow, declared in a December 1966 address to the UN that the newly independent country wo

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