For had they been aware of that fact I hardly think that on the 22 nd July and 189 days forward their website would still be so dated with the nonsense as below.

Cabinet
The Rt. Hon. Owen S. Arthur, M.P.
Prime Minister
Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
Minister for the Civil Service and Culture

The Hon. Mia A. Mottley, M.P.
Deputy Prime Minister
Minister of Economic Affairs and Development

The Hon. Dame Billie A. Miller, M.P.
Senior Minister
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade

The Hon. Kerrie Symmonds, M.P.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade

The Hon. Noel Lynch, M.P.
Minister of Tourism and International Transport

Senator The Hon. Erskine Griffith, G.C.M, J.P.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development

The Hon. Gline A. Clarke J.P., M.P.
Minister of Public Works

The Hon. Reginald Farley, M.P.
Minister of Housing, Lands

The Hon. Cynthia Forde, M.P.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth Affairs & Sports

The Hon. Elizabeth Thompson, M.P.
Minister of Energy and the Environment

The Hon. Rawle C. Eastmond, J.P. M.P.
Minister of Labour and Social Security

The Hon. Dr. Jerome Walcott, M.P.
Minister of Health

The Hon. Trevor Prescod, M.P
Minister of Social Transformation

The Hon. Anthony P. Wood, M.P.
Minister of Education, Youth Affairs & Sports

The Hon. Dale Marshall, M.P.
Attorney General & Minister of Home Affairs

Senator The Hon. Lynette Eastmond
Minister of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development

Rev. The Hon. Joseph Atherley JP MP
Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office

The Hon. Clyde A. Mascoll, M.P.
Minister of State, Ministry of Finance

Like you I to am very aware of the need to keep this country honest and on the right track, we were shown the worst display of what gross corruption and arrogance could lead a great country.

We are working hard on getting it back on track with every effort to cut out stealing in Gov’t as was the program under the rule of the blp.

I thought Mia Mottley’s reply was weak in that it rambled and was unstructured.

I am not offended by people like Redd. They are there for five years and, like it or not, Barbados has a great leader.

WRT my immediate above, please Google for:

Barbados Queen’s Printer
Barbados Government Printing Office
Barbados “Statutory Instrument”

Also note, in the Geek: s/couple/few/

IMHO, we live in a country, and a region, where people are discouraged from asking questions. Ignorance is the expected; the nominal; the easy to manage…

And our governments do nothing to encourage anything different. Gods forbid they make information easily available… As an alternative example, it is the enforced policy of the USA that *any* data or information generated with public funds are made (easily) available to the public. “Easily” now means Internet accessible.

This example of the Gazette is a perfect demonstration. This is a critical publication, and yet very few know about it, let alone have access to it, let alone read it…

If I may, there are things known as Statutory Instruments. These are often used by a government to apply deltas (read: changes) to their laws. And yet, our SIs are not readily available to the public unless you know to ask for them. (And show up in person, wait a great deal of time, pay some amount of money, and receive the information on *paper*!)

Therefore, one may be able to download from the Internet the Laws of Barbados, but without access to the relevant SIs, a full understanding of same cannot be reached.

Personally, I’m a very empirical kind of person. I listen very closely to everything I’m told, but then I tend to run sanity checks. Let me please present a couple now:

http://www.google.com/search?q=barbados+queen’s+printer
http://www.google.com/search?q=Barbados+Government+Printing+Office
http://www.google.com/search?q=Barbados+“Statutory+Instrument”

Again, personally, I consider Google to be a serious test. If you can’t find information desired via Google, then it likely doesn’t exist.

I would like to thusly argue the following: we, the people of Barbados, do not know our own laws.

And if we don’t, then how can we expect anyone outside our shores to be able to determine same, and, by deduction, have confidence in investing herein?

Namaste All

It is a fact the Gazette is not really known of except in the public sector. Every dept. in govt receives them at least twice a month. They contain info such as who was appointed in govt, who has retired, who was granted a licence to sell liquor, who has been granted work permits, a report of what took place in parliament, etc. I must say it calls for interesting reading but I do not know why it is not readily available to the public or why the govt Printing dept or even GIS does not inform the public about it. but that being said, some civil servants don’t even see it either, even tho they should have access to it.

I know this, of course (why do you think I asked about it?). (Hint: ask questions to which you know the answers…)

And, truth be told, there is a great deal of other critical information which is only available (for a fee), if one knows what to ask for. Including (for example) our statutory instruments (SIs), our census results, our spectrum allocation and our telephony numbering allocation, et al…

What I find most interesting is that even the availably of this information (for a fee) is not generally known to most.

And, of course, even if one knows of the information being available (in paper-only form, of course), its access generally involves a human physically going to the office involved to pay for, and retrieve, said information (on sheets of dead trees!!!)…

If Barbados is serious about Transparency, it might consider making available to *everyone*, via this wonderful thing called the Internet, the information which might be of interest to *anyone* and *everyone*.

The Gazette is available to any member of the public from the government printery, for a fee od course.

Thank you. Deeply.

So, there is such a thing as the Gazette in Barbados. And, according to yourself, such a publication is available to anyone who works in a government dept, or who has the privilege of knowing someone who works therein…

So, pray tell… What about those who *don’t* work in a government dept., or knows anyone therein? Is this a document available to the public? And what exactly is meant by “soon”?

Please note that a Google search for “Barbados Gazette” reveals that the first publishers of such a document were David Harry and Samuel Keimer in 1731. And that our Constitution (Chapter 3) refers to such a publication…

Please forgive me for this, but I am finding a serious disconnect here….

Is our public information easily available to us? Or is it not? (Sadly, this is a rhetorical question….)

The Debate will be published in the Gazette sometime soon, if you know someone who works in a government dept. ask them for a copy.

You remember those words up UWI (a student) wa slistening hmmmmmmmm

THIS IS NOT A BUDGET

THIS IS A MUGGET

BARBADOS HAS BEEN MUGGED BY A BANDELERO

Even the Bs at work talking about them why are you being so partisan!

I thought the Bs had their highlights as well; Du good do bad; Owen was subdued but for me it was a statesman speech.

But he has aged dramatically!

However, I waas very impressed with most of the debators.