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Miss Violet: On the Return of Cohobblopot, the Discipline Expected of Motorists, and the Moral Failure of Letting Children Wait for Counsellors

Good morning, Barbados. Miss Violet addresses you this Sunday morning from the parish of St. Michael, where I have already attended first service and am preparing myself for a proper Sunday lunch with the usual discipline that the occasion deserves.

I have read the papers. I wish to speak to three matters, in the order of their importance.

On the national mental health crisis among our children

The Barbados Union of Teachers has reported that forty percent of calls to the national mental health line come from children and teenagers. Forty. Percent. I want every adult in this country to read that figure and then close their eyes and consider what it means.

Bajan Bugle: Fitch Issues the Annual Warning, 40 Percent of Mental Health Calls Are from Our Children, and Cohobblopot Returns

Bridgetown morning. The Nation’s Sunday is a mixed bag, as all Sundays in a small state tend to be. Three stories are worth sitting with. Let us sit with them.

Fitch warns, the numbers look familiar

Fitch Ratings has issued its quarterly assessment of Barbados and — with the US-Iran conflict now firmly in the picture — flagged tourism pressures and energy price risks as the main downside factors for 2026. The baseline case assumes minimal fiscal impact: global oil averaging US$70/barrel, stable US and UK tourism demand, and the Government’s mitigation measures (absorbing 50% of electricity price increases, locking imported fuel at US$92/barrel, capping fuel taxes for three months) holding.