Get your copy from any of the Callaloo Poets – Lavanta Thompson, Oren Hodge, Linette Rabsatt, April T. Glasgow, V. Celeste Fahie, Earold O?Kieffe, Urenna Francis, Stephen Payne, Raja H. Pemberton, Jehu Nisbett, Quincy Lettsome, PH.D., Charles P. Bartholomew, Jerome Joseph, Sonjah Smith and Justin Hodge. Tremis Skeete, Prudence George and Elton Hazel are distributing [...]

Hot musical performances, that?s what patrons can expect to bring the curtain down each evening at BMEX 2007; the Barbados Manufacturer?s flagship exhibition. From 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM the Flamboyant Room at the Sherbourne Conference Centre will come alive each evening as patrons are treated to a musical extravaganza featuring some of the islands [...]

From 8:30 tomorrow night/this evening (Friday), the southern side of the Emancipation Roundabout will be closed until tomorrow/Saturday, as C.O Williams excavates this area to install utility services. As a result, the northern side of the roundabout will be divided into two lanes to facilitate both southbound and northbound traffic. All northbound traffic will be [...]

Art lovers and other patrons can look forward to an assembled exquisite and cohesive suite of paintings as the Barbados Manufacturers Association Exhibition (BMEX) will provide a unique opportunity to appreciate the remarkable legacies of Barbadian art. Various styles of art will be exhibited and while most of the work will be executed in Oils, [...]

VIRTUOSO BALLROOM INSTITUTE BEGINNERS CLASS BLACK ROCK CULTURAL CENTRE LEARN TO DANCE LATIN & LINE DANCE BALLROOM STARTING, SAT. – JUNE 16th LINE DANCE 3?4 pm LATIN & BALLROOM 4?5pm AND FRI JUNE 22nd 7?8 pm LINE DANCE FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT CORALITA STRAUGHN AB. LL. TEL :-421-9391 BEVERLEY HINKSON AL. TEL :-231-4633 Dr. RAYMOND [...]

VOICES: Barbados Writers’ Collective presents: THE WINTERGREEN WOMEN a collective of African American scholars and writers will be the featured the presenters at the our next edition of VOICES – MAY 25th 2007 @ 8 pm the BARBADOS MUSEUM Upper court yard. ALL of these women are published academic writers, also among them is performance [...]

The Guyana Honorary Consulate in Barbados will this weekend honour several Guyanese whom it termed ?unsung heroes? in helping to build Barbados and the good and friendly relations between the two countries. They are Michael Captain, a First Mate with Tall Ships Catamaran Cruises; Coleen Wilson , a welder with Williams Industries; Mona Aguilar, a [...]

Well, I finally learned the difference between slammin’ and an open-mic session! At the Limelight Cafe in Cavans Lane, Le Mot Juste held its 2nd session of performance poetry there. From the group Garlex, Garvie was the emcee for the night… Open Mic is when authors bring pieces to air for the audience and there [...]

Barbados, Jamaica plus Antigua have all had forays into fashion recently and come late August, it’ll be Guyana‘s turn; to make sure it’s a success they have enlisted a Bajan to oversee the running of their weekend of fashion from August 24th to 26th – Rodney Powers …. whose reputation precedes him [from his] tiny [...]

Bruggadung II won in the just-concluded Angostura Tobago Sail Week, it was captained by Andrew Burke, according to the Trinidad Express – The Barbadian Beneteau 10-metre craft sailed to victory in the hands of Andrew Burke and crew, with third, fourth and first place finishes in their final three races in the waters off Pigeon [...]

The last time we glanced at Belize, they were ready to receive millions from Barbados to boost their agriculture (a story that is still ignored by Barbadian Media, as is this tale too), now through their Channel 5 and Channel 7 services, we look again at the Sa’id Musa regime which appears under siege for [...]

Those of you who saw “De-Lovely” a film about the life of Cole Porter, may recall the following song that was actually a hit tune for Frank Sinatra… I’ve got you under my skinI’ve got you deep in the heart of meSo deep in my heart, that you’re really a part of me I’ve got [...]

While smuggling, terrorism, narco-trafficking and illegal weapons were the lynchpins of a recent conference at the Hilton between the Regional Security System (RSS) and the US National Guard, there were other key factors many local media houses failed to recognise… When BR secured a brief moment with Capt. Randolph Straughn – Perm. Secretary in the [...]

Glenville Lovell has been getting mucho mileage here at BR and some of it has rubbed the wrong peeps the wrong way! Fran Wickham-Jacobs, the sultry voiced Manager at Frank Collymore Hall has totally refuted comments Glenville made at the end of February – her comment was listed after that particular interview but for clarity’s [...]

Limelight Cafe continues to be the forefront for Barbadian entertainment, once Le Mot Juste whets your appetite this coming Sunday? There’s a next shindig on Saturday the 26th with Dave Kirton….

Repeat after me – I have NOT seen everything and such a phenomenon probably will not happen until after I kick the bucket! Can you say “RETARDED“? Why am I going on so? This CNN/AP story from Illinois – “Bubba” Ludwig can’t walk, talk or open the refrigerator door — but he does have his [...]

Since leaving Singapore just on a week ago, EarthraceEarthrace captain, Pete Bethune, on leaving Singapore, the forecast was for moderate winds only, but within 24 hours this had all changed to a full monsoon. As Earthrace rounded Banda Aceh, on the tip of Indonesia, it found itself head on into big seas and strong winds, [...]

It seems the Guyana Cancer Society (GCS) is on its last legs and with certain matters unravelling there, some ppl have decided to point fingers over here as to why THEY are not doing what they’re supposed to!According to the Stabroek News, it has been ages since the Society had a fund raiser and the [...]

ICC President Percy Sonn while claiming to be somewhat dissatisfied with the new claims that Bob Woolmer merely died of a heart attack {Ed’s Note: HELLOOOoooOOO??? WTF caused it baby? Was it stress that Ireland got thru, or fright at drinking weird-tasting champagne or maybe it was getting scared at the tightly-wrapped fingers on his [...]

“….Barbadian investors who have invested thirty-five million dollars in Belizean agriculture and it is to the mutual benefit of the two countries that the rest of the region should support the growth and the full achievement of the objectives of the Centre for Climate Change….” With these words Owen Arthur, the Prime Minister of Barbados, [...]

{Ed’s. Note; I officially started part of my vacation yesterday, had a seminar then and another today – so work overrode for a while… Hope to have things in swing before week is over!} This item came from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as part of a drive to boost [...]

Please be advised that only SLAM slots remain for Le Mot Juste: Unplugged on May 20th, all Open Mic slots are filled. Additionally, Limelight Cafe has indicated that their kitchen will indeed be open on Sunday, ‘ finger foods‘ will be on sale.Patrons are also reminded that there will be a variety of prizes offered [...]

The ongoing construction boom in Barbados is continuing to cause disruptions to a significant number of Barbados Water Authority customers and damage to the water distribution network… In the latest two incidents, contractors have burst two major transmission mains which fee the north and a significant part of the central parts of the island. Project [...]

The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados by Winfred Peppinck is an account of one of the more famous canines in this country as he switched from sand by the shore to sand inland, with the indirect help of the Australian High Commission! It seems this mutt was rescued from a life as a beach bum, but [...]

As if the roads are not messed up enough? Get ready for some more vehicular tic-tac-toe! Check this out – Motorists using the ABC Highway are warned from Monday, May 14, northbound lanes on the stretch of road south of the Garfield Sobers roundabout will be closed to vehicular traffic. This is to facilitate the [...]