Journalists from some of the UK’s top newspapers and magazines have just ended a three day trip to Grenada complements Peter de Savary‘s Port Louis Grenada and Mount Cinnamon Grenada. While in Grenada the journalists toured some of Grenada’s best known attractions including the Grand Etang Rain forest; the River Antoine and Belmont Estates; the [...]

The Namdo Centre is enshrined in tradition, a whole millennium in fact! These ladies and gents are extremely gifted and talented performers – individually or collectively, it was a great privilege to have witnessed such commanding performers here in Barbados…The Centre was packed to the rafters with all kinds of Bajans and visitors alike! A [...]

Everyone knows “In The Castle Of My Skin” whether through school or otherwise, it is the landmark tome of George Lamming, a Barbadian writer who makes the parish of St Joseph his home…Since Thursday he became 80 years old and it is not Barbados but Cuba which honoured him on such a landmark occasion, where [...]

Brooklyn is known for its Caribbean community, so much so, the Barbados Tourism Authority is organising a friendly Celebrity match in the New York borough – Caribbean Week in New York 2007 will open with a Celebrity Cricket Match at 11 a.m., June 9 at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, featuring past, present and emerging [...]

Big changes are in store for the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry, they recently conducted their Annual General Meeting and members voted for an executive to guide their affairs and concerns – Dick Stoute was re-elected as President for a second term. Glenda Medford was elected Senior Vice President and Lisa Padmore was returned [...]

THE EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA in collaboration with THE GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS presents THE NAMDO KOREAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC & DANCE PERFORMING TROUPE at THE ERROL BARROW CENTRE FOR CREATIVE IMAGINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, CAVE HILL CAMPUS on Saturday 9th June 2007 at 2:30pm (Matinee for Children) & 7:00pm (Dress Elegantly [...]

The United Kingdom has kept a close eye on the twin island Republic since the very recent JFK shocker that has rocked the world… Despite recent efforts by TT in promoting their Republic as a great place for business or pleasure, this new cannonball has appeared for them to dodge… The UK’s FCO branch decided [...]

The International Committee of Girl Guides Association of Barbados will be holding a Flea Market At its Headquarters, Pax Hill, Belmont Road on all remaining Saturdays of June, the 9th, 16th and 23rd June from 9:00 am each day. There?ll be a wide selection of clothing, bags and other articles both new and used. You [...]

Digicel has joined forces with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to launch the Digicel Cricket Scholarship which will give young West Indian cricketers the unique opportunity of playing cricket in England and other major cricketing nations. Windies fast bowler Jerome Taylor is to be the first recipient of the Digicel Cricket Scholarship and following [...]

The Cuthbert Moore Primary School in St. George will be closed for the remainder of this week, and will re-open on Monday, June 11. This was announced today by the Chief Education Officer, Wendy Griffith-Watson, who explained that smoke emitting from a nearby quarry still posed a problem and was injurious to the health of [...]

Since 1998 John Briceno was the Second In Command of Belize, after a recent debacle in Parliament – Sa?d Musa indicated he was not satisfied with Briceno’s stance in the whole flow of events. Rather than wait to be at the sticky end of Musa’s wrath (if Belmopan appears unstable, then they stand to lose [...]

By popular demand, the Faculty of Humanities & Education and cave hill theatre workshop present the return of David Mamet’s Oleanna for THREE NIGHTS ONLY at UWI’s Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination. Masterfully directed by the workshop leader Rob Leyshon and ably assisted by CBC’s own Andre Harewood, featuring Trinidadian Margaret Johnston and the [...]

Virginia Trieloff, Leslie Taylor and Cathy Cummins recently made a presentation of a cheque to The Barbados Poppy League at the Main Guard, The Garrison, St. Michael. This donation represents ten percent of sales earned at the exhibition held April 11 ? 23 by all four artists at the Main Guard. Art at the Main [...]

The Earthrace Project is presently making plans to visit up to 40 European cities during an upcoming promotional tour covering the next 8 months. The showpiece of the tour is a revolutionary and spectacular-looking, biodiesel-powered boat ? simply called Earthrace. Earthrace was built to attempt to break the world record for circumnavigation of the globe [...]

Digicel is paying for an experienced fielding coach to guide the West Indies cricket team for the current England tour. Former baseball player and cricketer, Julian Fountain will now join sport psychologist David Scott as part of additional support for the Windies team at the request of the team management and coaching staff. Julian Fountain [...]

The New York Times reviewer seems to hint that maybe Rihanna is looking to force-ripe herself (she is 19, not 29) but also is pleased yet shocked she has been churning out an album a year, this time she has taken critical moves to ensure the new disc remains a Hit Factory – This album [...]

Do you remember the delicious chocolate festival when the Canadian Women’s Club held an Easter auction in April at the Opa Greek Bar & Restaurant? They earned the most money they ever have ventured to donate so far… A grand total of 74-thousand dollars to an initial baker’s dozen of beneficial organisations known for their [...]

If we can big up Rihanna and David Kirton, let’s do the same for Fitzroy! Here’s his chance in the sun – WATCH “CAN’T KEEP WAITING” HERE! VOTE FOR IT HERE!

After North America and the United Kingdom, Barbados is the next lucrative tourism market for Trinidad and Tobago – for both business & leisure! This was one of the revelations most recently at the Accra Beach Resort when the Tourism Development Corporation of Trinidad & Tobago (TDC) held an expo for travel agents and other [...]

St Kitts National Football Stadium at Warner Park will be completed shortly, as the Denzil Douglas regime continues to fulfill its promise to transform the sporting facilities on island which will provide additional developmental avenues for young people and tap into the lucrative benefits of sports tourism. Acting Director of Sport Dave Connor gave an [...]

I have very sad news, folks… On Wednesday May 30, 2007 the Earthrace powerboat was forced to abandon its world record attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The Earthrace vessel and crew are in Malaga, Spain.The Earthrace boat suffered structural damage to its main hull during its crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. During this crossing she [...]

Trinidad and Tobago?s Soca Warriors deservedly won the first Digicel Shield in the most dramatic of fashions as they prepared in great fashion to leave for their opening games in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Mexico started strongly in the opening few minutes of this first Digicel Shield Final and were obviously intent in trying to [...]

Please support one of our local talents ( letter from Kellie Cadogan who sang for Sir Tim Rice at Gala evening at Holders in March) Hi everyone. Hope all is well. This email is to give you an update with my preparations for the Berklee College of Music summer performance program 2007 for which I [...]

Digicel Caribbean Cup champions Haiti ensured they went into the CONCACAF Gold Cup in winning form after they defeated St Vincent and the Grenadines in the third placed play off match in the Digicel Shield. Haiti, taking the opportunity to test some of their squad players, started very strongly and took control of the game [...]