Established October 1895 See Inside Monday May 31, 2021 $1 VAT Inclusive Embrace the work of the Holy Spirit ONE senior religious leader is urging Ministry to which God has called the Christians to embrace the work of the Church!” preached Reverend Richards. Holy Spirit. If this is not done, the He noted that when the Church has enemy will defeat the Church from the power of the Holy Spirit and it can outside and from within. recognise the trickery of its enemy,then Bishop of the South Caribbean it can stay the course. District of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas, Stay focused Superintendent of the Circuit, Rev. Reverend Richards encouraged the Derick A. Richards, gave this message congregation to stay focused. He at the James Street Methodist Church explained that the focus is the salvation yesterday. The Methodist Bishop of the world, to bring every person to the warned of the harm to come. knowledge of God in Jesus Christ and to “The enemy will speak to raise up all a place where they are saved. kinds of demonic attacks on the Church The religious leader posited that from outside and then the Church will despite the pandemic, the James start warring from inside and then we Street Methodist Church is an active Bishop of the South Caribbean District of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean start fighting each other.And the world participant in the Ministry of God, and the Americas, Superintendent of the Circuit, Rev. Derick A. Richards, is urg- is constantly and slowly going to Hell, working on the mission of God in the ing Christians to stay focused on the salvation of the world. while the Church is distracted from the world and united in purpose. TOUGH TIMES FOR VENDORS By Krystal Penny Bowen near Tudor Street and Milk Market Road to chat with vegetable and fruit AS Barbados tries to restart its vendors. commercial activity, the vendors in Around 11 a.m. in Cheapside, Bridgetown continue to struggle while vendors’ trays were filled with Popular local fruit vendor, ‘Master’, has an array of fresh fruit on sale including with slow sales. cucumbers, hot peppers, sweet peppers, cashew, wax apple, and pawee mango. Recently, The Barbados Advocate carrots, root crops like sweet potatoes visited Cheapside Market and the area and yam, there were few customers buying goods. Local cashew and wax apple avail- Most vendors tried to keep busy able as they arranged their fruits and One interesting find in the City was the vegetables while others talked to their sale of local cashew fruit and wax apple. neighbours. At the Old City Hall, other In Bridgetown, everyone knows that if vendors tried to sell breadfruit and they want local fruit, there is only one mangoes, which are in abundance. place to go. Produce vendor and store owner on Fruit vendor, “Master”, located at the Tudor Street, Keith Walcott, said that it corner of Milk Market Road, had these has been challenging, but he is doing unusual fruits on sale along with pawee the best he can under the current mangoes for a dollar. The cashew fruit circumstances. He sells an array of is an excellent source of Vitamin C and cassava, sweet potatoes, and yam as has several minerals, including copper, well as watermelon, lettuce, and calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, cucumbers. He also had some mangoes potassium, and zinc. It is great for and plantains, which were imported curries, fermented vinegar and can be from St. Vincent and the Grenadines made into an alcoholic drink. (SVG). In India and Brazil, it is used in Last month, the Agriculture Minister preserves, chutneys, and jams. The in SVG, Saboto Caesar, had indicated strange wax apple is said to have a that the island, although impacted by similar taste to an Asian pear. It can the La Soufrière eruption, was still able be used in salads and pairs well with to ship key crops to their neighbouring onions, garlic, chilies, mint, lemon, Vendor, Keith Walcott (not in photo), had plantains and mangoes from islands. fennel, sharp cheeses, and greens, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. spinach, and romaine lettuce. 2 • Monday May 31, 2021 The Barbados Advocate BRA: Submit Deadline for filing Personal relevant vehicle registration Income Tax returns is today documents MEMBERS of the public Speaking to The Barbados that they used or sometimes they their Income Tax returns as AS the Barbados Revenue have until the end of today, Advocate yesterday, don’t remember their user’s yet, to do so by the deadline. Authority prepares to further au- May 31, to file their 2020 Communications Officer with name.” Meanwhile, anyone needing tomate the vehicle registration Personal Income Tax returns BRA, Erica Lazare, said the Lazare also indicated that “a assistance can attend the final service, they report that over 400 and make any payments. response to these clinics from lot of people” have been making Tax Clinic today, May 31. applicants have not submitted This as today is the final day of Tuesday through to Saturday needed payments to BRA via “Come down to the NUPW. all of the required documenta- the extended deadline for filing. was positive. the online route. In the current We are there from nine in the tion to enable processing. The deadline was originally April “The first day, Tuesday, was COVID-19 environment, this has morning until five in the evening The Authority has issued noti- 30, however, it was extended by good, but we found that the helped to reduce the number of or they can come to one of our fications directly to those appli- a month until May 31, 2021. numbers started to increase individuals visiting the BRA’s Customer Service locations,” cants with missing information. To assist persons with over- from Wednesday.We had a lot of offices at any one time. she added. Those persons are directed to coming any difficulties faced people on Thursday and Friday Lazare reminded that though Persons attending the clinic visit the second floor at the while filing, each day from was a busy day and yesterday today is the deadline for filing should walk with their identi- Authority’s Warrens Towers II May 25 the Barbados Revenue (Saturday) … it was steady.The Personal Income Tax and mak- fication card and their TAMIS location with all relevant docu- Authority (BRA) has conducted majority of people who came, ing payments,“it is not the dead- information, including the mentation to complete their free in-person Tax Clinics at came to get their passwords line for the Reverse Tax Credit”. Taxpayer Identification Number transactions over-the-counter. the National Union of Public reset because a lot of people don’t She additionally encouraged (TIN) and the registration e-mail As part of the transition pro- Workers (NUPW) headquarters. remember the e-mail address individuals who have not filed address. (MG) gramme, the e-mail submission process for vehicle registrations is suspended with effect Friday, May 28, 2021. All vehicle regis- Reminder: BSS household listing begins today tration transactions will be fa- cilitated over-the-counter until THE public is reminded that is to ensure the census is accu- purposes. spondents. Neither will they the Authority releases the the Barbados Statistical rately completed, through the Field officers will have their seek to solicit sensitive or per- automated vehicle registration Service (BSS) will be conduct- collection of basic data on the BSS-issued photo identifica- sonal information from house- service for use in the very near ing its household listing exer- location of households, and tion prominently displayed on holders. future. cise, beginning today, May 31, all buildings on the island, their person. There will be strict adher- The Authority reminds per- in preparation for the upcom- residential or otherwise. All While the exercise requires ence to the COVID-19 proto- sons to produce all relevant doc- ing Population and Housing information recorded will be that personnel visit resi- cols. Householders are encour- umentation for the vehicle regis- Census. kept in the strictest confidence dences, the officers will NOT aged to co-operate with the tration process, as incomplete ap- The objective of the exercise and only used for statistical be entering the homes of re- officers. plications will not be processed. The Barbados Advocate Monday May 31, 2021 • 3 Long overdue Artists cry out about National Art Gallery’s lack of progress By Krystal Penny Bowen years, several commit- tees and boards of the “CECI n’est pas un Barbados National Art NAG” or “This is not Gallery have been work- a NAG (National Art ing with the Government Gallery).” to conceptualise a national These words, written exhibit for artists. in French on a colourful banner,represent the frus- A need for funding tration of local artists. The veteran artist noted Recently, the creative sec- the major challenge for the tor called for more dia- National Art Gallery is logue and action on the that there is no funding. creation of a home for the Scott noted that before the island’s art collection. pandemic, it was esti- Prominent local artist, mated to cost 10 million Heather Dawn Scott, Barbados dollars to create came to the site, Block A, the gallery. It was sug- The Garrison, to highlight gested by the artists that the current situation. efforts could be made to Scott, who created the raise the money through protest art banner, spoke donors and art patrons on to The Barbados the island and overseas. Advocate via WhatsApp To date, the artists do not after she displayed her have a clear understand- work.