Hoist the mainsail and lay about on a course in for the Wharf, we dock at Cavans’ Lane and dry-dock for supplies… Last night was the debut at Cavans Lane at the Limelight Cafe of their Cabaret show that is close-up and personal! Hosted by Margaret Allman-Goddard, a long-time veteran of such shows, the treatment [...]

The Indian journalist who is a Melbourne editor, yup, the one who pulled a fast one on a former Tourism Authority exec to send a story by any means, now is getting into fantasy tales using the Caribbean as a base… In his latest yarn, since it seems he is stuck here in Barbados until [...]

Perhaps we may yet see a conch shell blowing at a match? It seems the CWC Security Directorate and the ICC have relaxed their draconian dicta on bottled water, this can now be brought into match venues, with immediate effect. This is to make sure that people don’t fall and faint! However, they’re taking off [...]

Last time I spoke of my Technorati rank was at 401-K, well it peaked to 385-K then slipped back to 399-K! In the time since I used a counter I have had close to 2500 visitors and now they stay almost 3 minutes per stop! But you never really know or understand how far blogging [...]

It seems when the Earthrace left Barbados bright and early at 7:00 am on 10-3-2007, they may have offended the sea gods, at least that’s according to their skipper, who pinned his propeller’s break to the wrong fruit on board…– bananas have been bad luck on shipboard since the days when most boats were powered [...]

Hartley Henry now getting his name called correctly over in Bermuda is still spinning for the opposition UBP but it’s kind of like Linus with the Great Pumpkin in Peanuts, despite his knowing and everyone else fully aware that the UBP‘s chances are rather slender for winning Bermuda‘s next elections – he still hangs around [...]

For those that follow this News Blog fairly regular you may recall when I did a review on Scott Clement‘s “Scarlet Avenger” pulp-like series set in WW II?Well, it seems he just had his first interview on ‘The Paunch Stevenson Show‘. Scott seems to think that he may sound a bit dorky in it, but [...]

Merchants from Broad Street want to close Broad Street to try and cash in on the CWC 2007 spectators leaving Super 8 matches – how does this reconcile with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) wishing to ensure that traffic remains flowing freely during the Cup? The LOC with the Chamber of Commerce held a Town [...]

Finally got confirmation for the stink-bomb, uh, Eddie Murphy film review I did nearly six days ago – usually when I do a review with IMDb it is published in four hours at worst! In order to make sure it got published I removed the reference to Damon Wayans, HOWEVER, I still maintain the man [...]

There are unfortunately way too many examples of people looking to invent a story rather than find one… “USA TODAY: …a team of journalists has found strong evidence that Kelley fabricated substantial portions of at least eight major stories, lifted nearly two dozen quotes or other material from competing publications…“ “PBS: … From Stephen Glass’s [...]

If you ever take a look at the PERLIXING & POMPASETTING section of this News Blog, those are interesting places that provide a good service or an interesting read…. Such a one is “what crazy looks like” where eemanee looks at the logical links between so-called human trafficking and the world’s oldest profession – “i [...]

Unfortunately, the curator at Queen’s Park Gallery says there won’t be a Cricket Cultural Village after all – “The National Cultural Foundation thanks you for your interest and enthusiasm towards the planned Barbados Culture Village project, scheduled to be held in Queen’s Park April 20-29th, 2007. We regret to inform you that due to circumstances [...]

Chris Dehring has already smelled mutiny in his own backyard and is looking to quell it before the big rush for the opening at Sabina Park in less than 24 hours… It seems one of his own crew is upset over accreditation procedures, but they must shut up despite other eyes on them? This is [...]

Just this week in Washington, there was a two-day Conference between Parliamentarians from the English-speaking Caribbean and officials of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. It’s the first time such a group from this region met with all three institutions at the same time. The working sessions [...]

Despite all of the precautions at Kensington, a Kiwi blogger was able to sample some some Barbadian Gold or rumbullion as it used to be called… Here’s her tale of disgruntlement – “At one stage I was the only person going in the gates at the 3Ws Oval on Tuesday. “Five security guards swarmed around [...]

It took a Kiwi (or New Zealander) online version of a tv sports bulletin to relay info from Reuters (however a search on that site revealed nothing)about if Obadele and Marion Jones really tied the knot… ““It was very homely, very quiet and simple,” the Rev. Vibert Tyrrel, pastor of the Union Hill African Methodist [...]

In Barbados, he tried to run on a DLP ticket and did not show his spurs… In Antigua, there was a similar result, now Hartley Henry seems to be making a hat-trick of useless consultancies – this time in Bermuda where the track record is even worse? At least, we think it’s him – he [...]

As this News Blog gets more popular, the tipsters increase – this one is backed up with photographic evidence… “Imagine this, on the 27th Feb, 2007 at 12:44 pm this picture was taken in Barbados, as the photographer approached the airport from St. Philip…. “She managed to flag down the police, who then escorted her [...]

Received this e-mail from a previous contributor who in turn received this from some highly respectable friends from noted financial circles – “Yesterday sometime between 5:30 pm and 6:00pm (day light time) two men dressed in black jumped into my sister-in-law’s car, threatened to shoot her, put her out of the vehicle and drove away [...]

The Limelight Cafe is launching a weekly Thursday night ‘Caribbean Cabaret‘ dinner show from 15th March 2007. They have in store a delicious Caribbean buffet, free house drinks, a cast of Barbados’ top dancers and acrobats, and live dance music by ‘The I.O.P Band‘ featuring Shane Forrester, plus, if required they also provide transport to [...]

IMDb’s taking forever to publish my review, as far as I know, I put up the spoiler warning, here’s my take on Eddie’s multiple roles… {re: tagline – Have you ever made a really big mistake?} “The Biggest Mistake you could make would be to rent this!“ Not even an uncredited cameo of Damon Wayans [...]

You remember when Brit cinema mogul Michael Winner was being very melodramatic in declaring he’d rather drop dead instead of amputating his leg? Well, he seems to have gotten past that luckily for him – but I doubt he’ll want to even try the Sandy Crest Medical Clinic run by Malcolm Grant (It is said [...]

It’s strange how I spoke of bells tolling the other day, that is exactly what must have happened for Shawn Terry Cox over in Venezuela the other day, Stabroek News has the rest of that story about their attempting to qualify for the Pan-Am {Editor’s Note – Pan American: Caribbean & Latin America} games – [...]

First of all, the biodiesel vessel is ENORMOUS ? you don?t get that impression when visiting the website or seeing pictures of Earthrace over the Internet? I had e-mailed the skipper and he sent me an itinerary, so over the weekend I was then given an actual tour of the vessel by their resident cinematographer, [...]

As I have said before? It really is weird when News literally lands on your back door, now, it takes a while to build steam for this one – so just bear with me on this! Entertainer, ambassador, and former political candidate – The Mighty Gabby has sung ad nauseam over the plight of the [...]