Barbados: Friends in high places and Human Rights Treaty

Written byGeorgia Popplewell
Posted 27 March 2006 21 years ago

Barbados Free Press reports that a friend of a government minister has been receiving lucrative contracts for consulting on dance and choreography, and is concerned that the new Human Rights Treaty being drafted by CARICOM promotes an agenda that is primarily economic.

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