
Suleiman Bulbulia
Suleiman Bulbulia is the secretary of Barbados Muslim Association and is a weekly Columnist for the Barbados Today. He was the former member of the Religious Advisory Committee on National Affairs, appointed by the Prime-Minister and Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs to advise the Government on matters of national importance from a religious perspective.
Items by Suleiman Bulbulia
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- May 4, 2024 Suleiman Bulbulia
CARICOM members Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago recognise State of Palestine
On 19 April, 2024, amidst what Barbados’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley described as the world’s first televised genocide in Gaza, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds announced the intention of the Government to recognise the State of Palestine. With this announcement, Barbados became the...
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- December 11, 2019 Suleiman Bulbulia
Recognising Palestine
60 years after Che Guevara’s visit to Gaza transforming the Zionist colonisation of Palestine from a regional conflict to a global struggle against colonialism, a cross section of Barbadians gathered recently at the Venezuelan Cultural Institute in Hastings, Christ Church to participate in the Palestinian Film Festival. Held under the...
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- September 1, 2017 Suleiman Bulbulia
Palestine and the Caribbean
In June, a conference aimed at bringing together leading technology companies from Israel and entrepreneurs and business experts from the Caribbean was held in Bridgetown, Barbados; it was met with small but very vocal opposition. Such opposition to Israel is generally unheard of in the Caribbean, but with the...