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Read More Barbados Murder Coverage UpdateArtificial intelligence is often discussed in Barbados in terms of technology, productivity and innovation (see here and here) As a Barbadian, and a technologist, there’s a question that I think needs further exploration and in-depth analysis: What happens when AI meets the structure of the Barbadian labour market? According to the Barbados Statistical Service’s 2025…
Read More How Vulnerable Are Barbados Jobs to Artificial Intelligence?Or how the smallest mistake can create huge problems… Think of DNS Like Your Phone’s Contact List Most of us have hundreds of contacts stored in our phones. When you want to call a friend, you usually don’t memorize their phone number—you tap their name. Your phone looks up the number stored behind that contact…
Read More When One Missing Dot Stops an Organization from Receiving EmailWith the FIFA World Cup well underway, I found myself thinking back to the days of the Soca Warriors and Trinidad and Tobago’s appearance at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. This year, another Caribbean nation is making headlines. Curaçao has qualified for its first-ever World Cup, while Haiti has returned to football’s biggest stage…
Read More World Cup 2026: How Many CARICOM Countries Have Ever Made It?Barbados went to the polls on February 11 and, for the third consecutive time, the BLP secured a 30–0 victory. That, in itself, is historic — but it is not my focus here. What I am examining instead is voter turnout. Soon after the election, I saw a horizontal bar chart circulating on Facebook showing…
Read More Voter Turnout in Barbados: A Review of the Official EBC Data