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Minister of Home Affairs, Edmund Hinkson; Minister of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Commerce, Dwight Sutherland; and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Deborah Payne, while taking the salute yesterday.

‘GIVE THEM A CHANCE’

TO err is human.

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From left: Chargé d’affaires for the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Barbados, Álvaro Sánchez Cordero; Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Barbados, Sergio Jorge Pastrana and Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, David Comissiong, place a wreath on the Cubana Monument, in Paynes Bay, St. James yesterday. It has been 43 years since the terrorist attack on the Douglas DC-8 aircraft which killed 73 people, which included the 24 members of the Cuban National fencing team.

Revisit proposal

Barbados’ Ambassador To CARICOM, David Comissiong is calling on the government to revisit a proposal to go to the United Nations to declare October 6 as UN International Day Against Terrorism.

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Minister of Home Affairs, Edmund Hinkson, right, was joined by (second from right) Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Deborah Payne; Deputy Permanent Secretary, Celia Pollard-Jones and Deputy Postmaster General, Iris Lashley, for the service yesterday.

filling gaps

Staff of the Barbados Postal Service (BPS) have been going beyond the call of duty.

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