The late Errol Barrow, the father of Barbados’s independence in 1967, delivered an address at the United Nations declaring that Barbados would “be friends of all, satellites of none.”  Twelve years later, in 1979, Sir John Compton confirmed a variation of Errol Barrow’s foreign policy stance that essentially suggested Saint Lucia would not position ourselves […]

There was not so long ago the murder of a female in the Balata area that I sought to investigate when I was still a journalist. It happened just after a shoot-out on Chaussee Road, in Castries. I was particularly interested in this murder because the suspected perpetrator was the sister of someone in my employ. I found out that a group of people had visited her home on a Sunday morning. I have their names but I won’t mention them here. They wined and dined with her. Her boyfriend is a Rastaman. He rides a motorcycle. She went out to buy some drinks and food for the group. After they had eaten, the woman was taken out of the house and given a thorough beating. Then they killed her. The incident was drug-related. Allegedly, she had not paid money owed, so an example had to made of her. In...