CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP
Barbados
Head of the Anglican Church in Barbados,
Rev. Michael Maxwell says the
church is not supportive of the idea by
the Mia Mottley administration to recognize
same-sex marriage.
Rev Mitchell told the Barbados Online
publication, Barbados Today that the
Anglican Church in Barbados and the
rest of the Province of the West Indies
remained fortified in its position, stemming
from a decision
of the 1998 Lambeth
Conference of Anglican
Bishops in England,
that marriage is
a life-long union of a
man and a woman.
He said the Anglican Church continues
to stand against what it considers to
be same-sex marriages, and it will continue
to follow what is the ruling of the
Lambeth Conference, which is a conference
that is held by all of the bishops of
the world coming together.
Rev Mitchell said the church is not
condoning the whole thing in relation
to same-sex union, but the civil
union which is something that is not
blessed by the church or condoned by
the church.
The Anglican Bishop hinted that the
church would not perform rites for gay
couples of same-sex marriages were to
be legalized in Barbados.
He said the government’s recognition
of same-sex civil unions would
have an impact on the thinking of persons
going forward.
Caribbean
The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism
Association (CHTA) has started a series
of online roundtable discussions as
part of its wider efforts
to help speed up the
rebuilding of the Caribbean
tourism sector.
The association
is also seeking to ensure the region
emerges from covid-19 stronger that it
was before the pandemic that brought
the lifeblood industry to a virtual standstill.
CHTA roundtables will he held each
Friday for the next five weeks, gathering
peer groups on Zoom meetings to
receive brief industry updates, hear
from leaders in the region and share
in candid dialogue on challenges, successes
and best practices.
CHTA President, Patricia Affonso
Dass, at the inaugural meeting,
described the sessions as proactive
efforts “to embrace and provide a valuable
service to hospitality and tourism
stakeholders in the region”.
Hotel owners, managing directors,
general managers and human resources
leaders, hospitality and tourism
allied members and suppliers, tourism
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Bishop Michael Maxwell (R) stands with Dean Jeffrey Gibson during his entronement ceremony. Anglican church takes a stand
against same-sex marriage. Photo by George Alleyne
business leaders affiliated to restaurants
and other tourism stakeholders
are being invited to participate in various
virtual m discussions.
The CHTA president said she is keen
to bring together members, non-members
and all those invested in the industry’s
future to chart a way forward.
She said that he rebuilding and reimagining
of the sector depends on
everyone.
Grenada
A 28-year-old Grenadian man was
fined EC$50,000 for violating the privacy
of a woman — his former intimate
partner.
Jamar Griffith was
charged under Section
10 of the Electronic
Crimes Act. He
recently pleaded guilty
to the charge of violation of privacy at
the St. George’s Magistrate Court and
was given 30 months to pay the fine.
He was placed on a one-year suspended
sentence.
As part of his sentence he must
attend an anger management and Man
to Man program, failing which, he will
be in breach of the sentence, and would
serve 12 months in jail, according to
a release from the community relations
department of the Grenada Police
Force.
The court was told that Griffith publicly
published photos of his former intimate
partner without her consent using
various electronic platforms, which are
in violation of the section of law which
covers violation privacy.
Anyone who commits such an offence
is liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding EC$200,000 or three
years imprisonment.
Guyana
The Guyana Sugar Corporation
(Guysuco) said it intends to re-hire
more than 400 dismissed workers by
December as it prepares to re-open several
sugar estates.
Acting Chief Executive Office, Sasenarine
Singh said
some of the workers
who were laid off
in 2017 have already
been rehired and that
former sugar workers will be given priority
consideration going forward.
He said the work plan is to have 442
people re-hired by Christmas of this
year. They have already hired about
200 of those already but as the work
expands, they will continue to hire.
Singh said that taking this into consideration,
the plan for reopening will
employ a holistic approach the company
looks to modernize and re-employ
workers.
The former David Granger government
said it had closed down the factories
after careful thought noting then
“sugar cannot be sold on the world
market at the cost that it is being produced”.
Last month Agriculture Minister
Zulfikar Mustapha said the government
intends to open three sugar estates
closed by the former Granger administration,
but is waiting a report on a
survey being done by the ministry.
Jamaica
Miss World 1993, Lisa Hanna, a fourterm
Jamaican MP has thrown her
hat in the ring to be
the leader of Jamaica’s
Opposition party,
the People’s National
Party (PNP).
Hanna is the Opposition
spokesperson for Foreign Affairs
and Foreign Trade and is a seasoned
parliamentary debater.
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