Barbados: Press Threats?  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

A senior political figure allegedly threatens a newspaper editor, prompting Barbados Free Press to comment: “Bajans know that our country has not enjoyed true freedom of the press in two decades or more.”  Keltruth Corp. adds: “The Nation [newspaper] is getting all bent out of shape because somebody threatened to destroy someone’s reputation, yet the same paper has ignored death and other violent threats.”