FIND & POST LOCAL JOBS FOR FREE AT CARIBBEANLIFE.COM/JOBS BRING THE HOSTAGES HOME EDITORIAL ON PAGE 3 Vol. 40, Issue 7 BROOKLYN EDITION February 15-21, 2024 BAJAN GOV’T MP DEFECTS Says democracy in Barbados under threat By Bert Wilkinson reforming the...
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FIND & POST LOCAL JOBS FOR FREE AT CARIBBEANLIFE.COM/JOBS BRING THE HOSTAGES HOME EDITORIAL ON PAGE 3 Vol. 40, Issue 7 BROOKLYN EDITION February 15-21, 2024 BAJAN GOV’T MP DEFECTS Says democracy in Barbados under threat By Bert Wilkinson reforming the education sector. New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Photo courtesy Office of the Mayor of the City of New York Saying that democracy, good In abandoning the govern- governance and government are ment side, Thorne is taking up Mayor Eric Adams further enshrines under threat, a government law- the vacant opposition leader’s maker in Barbados has switched position because the BLP has to the other political side to take for the past two election cycles up the vacant position as opposi- decimated the Democratic Labor right to abortion care in NYC tion leader, contending that he Party (DLP) by winning all 30 can no longer put up with the seats. political excesses of the govern- Thorne argues that the result ing Barbados Labor Party (BLP). is that
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