It was not that long ago when Bajan Reporter cited both Scottish and Kiwi bloggers as showing there’s a growing preference in the Caribbean for basketball over cricket, now one of cricket’s Legends has stepped fwd to dispute this! Gulf News, an Arabic online newspaper, managed to get a quick chat with tall bowler Barbadian [...]

The Bridgetown Film Festival now in its third year will have an awards ceremony for the entrants this year, I am glad to see they have qualifications and how their judges have been kept to a bare minimum – but I think the identities of the judges should have been saved for the end of [...]

Virginia Trieloff is a tall striking personality, for me, rather reminiscent of a blonde Anjelica Huston – when I had the pleasure of meeting her for the first time this week, I said to her how the barracudas she proudly displayed seemed to be alive although dead and appear to almost leap off of the [...]

Here’s the latest info on the wavepiercing trimaran called Earthrace as it zooms back to Barbados – At approximately 4:00 pm April 12th, Earthrace became snared with some old ropes and fishing net as she made her way Westwards towards Hawaii. According to to the trimaran’s skipper, Pete Bethune, there was a sudden series of [...]

Ever been on MySpace? Weird place, good for networking and stuff – then you get all kinds of items, this was sent to me by a Barbadian UWI gal and I really wanna know if this stuff is true? THIS LOAD , BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WAS SPEWED FORTH BY SOME ASS OF A PROFESSOR [...]

Well, we finally caught up with our promise to look at Shouts From The Outfield from new Barbadian publishing house, AE Books, it is fielding different aspects of the sport that most Caribbean folk would either kill or die for…This is a wonderful memento for any die-hardest cricket fanatic to either give as a present [...]

The Savannah Hotel was abuzz recently with some of the most promising young talents in film production for the Bridgetown Film Festival, this night in question was partially hosted by poet/actor Nala and director Mahmood Patel.Nala introduced the trailers, while Mahmood saw an interest in ensuring the total participation of the region to the festival, [...]

Barbados has a rich history, even if monopolised by the British for so long – therefore the Main Guard at the Garrison, is a cool way to use the past to show the future of Barbadian Art!It was a wonderful Wednesday afternoon when I was introduced to the visual delights of Catharine Cummins, Virginia Trieloff [...]

**** U P D A T E **** The teenaged Canadian shown above spoke to her family recently and also communicated via e-mail. She stated she is safe and temporarily residing with a female adult. Nevertheless, the Beckles family remain her legal guardians and family by relation and affiliation. Therefore the official notice still stands [...]

When a teenaged Lauryn Hill appeared in the sequel to ?Sister Act,? she had no idea her role would prove to be the catalyst for an eight year old female Libran here in Barbados to seek to be the next big talent from this gem of the Caribbean Sea? Three years later, Desiree Hewitt entered [...]

Pete Bethune has more sand than the Sahara, this means he has determination and obstinacy that makes the Juggernaut seem like a wuss! Earthrace is pushing on in her round-the-world speed record attempt – the Kiwi trimaran you’ll recall was travelling off of Guatemala when there was a collision with an unlit fishing skiff, there [...]

Rene Holder from Pun De Grill sent me an item from Hello, thanks! For me, I think the time has come for Kings and so forth to join other obsolete concepts like Women Can’t Vote Jews Hold Money So Must be Cooked and Blacks At The Back Of The Bus among other evil ideas that [...]

You know how Barbados Free Press is demanding accountability and transparency? Tonight is the night for your chance to demand the same and to air your concerns over murder, match-fixing, water-bottles, food, gate restrictions, traffic & everything else that has resulted from this circus which rivals Barnum and Bailey – ICC CWC 2007 Managing Director [...]

Remember back in February we talked of how Brit kids were competing for trip to out here by praising vegetables? Well here’s the winning poem from the Hertfordshire lad – The Pumpkin I’m an enormous pumpkin,I grew in Edward’s plot.In the October sunshine,I glow orange and hot.I won first prize in Potters Bar,The biggest veggie [...]

The state of cricket for this part of the world appears to be at death’s door, according to Jamaican, Australian and South African online dailies… Over at IOL in Johannesburg, they got a chance to get the views of Lance Gibbs – Gibbs played between 1958 to 1976 and with his cunning off-spin he helped [...]

The BBC’s Five Live used my Blog for its scathing remarks on the fiasco that is CWC 2007, back then my News-Blog was 401-k in Technorati’s ranking system… Since then a lot has happened! Ndelamiko Lord, aka: Sun Goddess has listed me on her site and so has the Scarlet Avenger! He is much easier [...]

The Police are no longer seeking the assistance of the public in locating Michael Richard DAVIS, 21 years of Crane, St. Philip, alias ?EMMY?. He was shot dead yesterday, after a confrontation with Police in Villa Road on Brittons Hill. Davis was wanted for questioning in connection with some robberies and two murders. It appears [...]

I have my friend Chris to thank for this contribution, I had beer for her from before, now I have even more! This is a guy called Eric Grohe… Do you know about Julian Beever? Three dimensional chalk illustrations? Well with Eric, these are a specialised paint designed to last at least for 100 years [...]

They named a square after him in Castries, his plays have been throughout the Caribbean and there were two I remember here in Barbados – “Remembrance” and “Pantomime” where Crusoe and Friday were done by Patrick Foster & Clairmonte Taitt respectively as in a modern day bed-and-breakfast resort with Crusoe/Foster as the manager and Friday/Taitt [...]

Napoleon once said to the effect that History is written by the victors, but for CWC 2007 it was written by the victims – the Caribbean was put to ransom by the ICC and we obeyed, in obeying though, we had a silent rebellion and it is the ICC who lost as fans stayed away… [...]

Catching up is tough, but do-able, last month we spoke of Dennis DePeiza‘s launch for his book “Issues & Responses” which covers articles, speeches and items he wrote from the 1990′s to the early 2000′s…There are many topics which he looks at, let’s give you an insight to a few of them via some highlighted [...]

Eliana Marcenaro is a young lady who has accomplished much in life – she earned a scholarship in Peru to go to Dartmouth, she taught in the USA and was an interpreter as well, after that she came to the Caribbean to do something different! Now, she plans on making her singing a regular part [...]

Holders Great House is an enormous sprawling mansion that is right next to the polo field which is always advertised in the newspapers as having a match – but do you realise the ads never listed the location where Jeffrey Evelyn, Select Magazine and the Williams clan go to do a chukka or two? (You [...]

Does anybody remember Nirmie? As in Nirmal Thani – when he started at Love FM, then went to Mix FM, then decided to be Manager at DaCosta’s Colonnade Mall? Well, Nirmal, is now an actor – he plays Amir Misra, the Indian coach of the West Indies cricket team in the film ?Hit For Six!? [...]

RE: MISSING WOMAN The assistance of the public is being sought to locate missing woman Eula Griffith Toppin, 83 years of Stroud Bay Road, Crab Hill, St. Lucy. She was last seen on the Monday 15th January around 7pm. She was at the time wearing a tangerine hat, pink skirt, pink blouse and shoes are [...]