The Digicel Sir Garfield Sobers International Schools Cricket Tournament drew to an exciting end today when two teams, comprising 22 of the best players from the 2008 tournament, had the opportunity to shine in an international All-Star friendly at the 3W?s Oval in Barbados. The match began at 11:00 a.m. and was a highly anticipated [...]

I don’t envy youI’m a little bit of everythingAll rolled into oneI’m a bitch, I’m a loverI’m a child, I’m a motherI’m a sinner, I’m a saintI do not feel ashamedI’m your hell, I’m your dreamI’m nothing in betweenJust when you think, you got me figured outThe season’s already changingI think it’s cool, you do [...]

A team of blind and visually impaired cricketers from London, aged between 13 and 19, are in Barbados for a three match series against a team from the West Indies. Cricket 4 Change is a London-based cricket charity which, for the past 25 years, uses cricket as an avenue to improve the lives of disadvantaged [...]

With the beautiful east coast of Barbados as a backdrop, people will flock to the hillside off the Ermy Bourne highway, drop coolers, erect tents, lay blankets and settle down to watch twenty of this season’s hottest artistes battle it out for the prestigious title “Party Monarch of Barbados.” The island’s east coast, which has [...]

Savvy Grenada is contributing 30 thousand dollars to assist Grenada’s needy students. The donation was made a few days after Tilman Thomas’ victorious landslide in the Spice Isle. It was given to the Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique Foundation for Needy Students. The Foundation for Needy Students provides books, school uniforms, transportation assistance, lunches, and [...]

You are invited to the ’5 weeks, 5 artists’exhibition which will be held at Zemicon Gallery,Hincks Street, Bridgetown.The opening of two of the artists,Sheena Rose and Kamesha Webb will be on July 15th at 7:00 pmand will continue till July 26th. Exhibition time 10am-4pm.The show will be great and interesting!

Have you ever felt like your life was missing something? What if that something that is missing from your life others has purposefully guided you away from, so they can benefit from your frustration and insecurities?Have you been jumping from institution to institution or belief system to belief system? Do you have questions that are [...]

The Barbados National Trust and the National Art Gallery Committee are pleased to invite you to an evening lecture entitled “Caring for Art Objects, Antiques and Furniture” with Mr. Angel Santiago-Torres, Objects Conservator of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico and consultant conservator with the NAGC. Mr. Torres will give an informative talk [...]

“In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship evil’s might, beware my power.. Green Lantern’s light!”-Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern [1943, credited to Alfred Bester] The players and management of the Stanford 20/20 Tournament 2008 winning Trinidad and Tobago team were just presented with very [...]

TARRUS RILEY LIVE at the Medley, featuring Duane Stephenson, Dean Fraser, Inword Band, and Mikey Dangerous; Friday, August 22nd! The show you’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived; award winning reggae phenomenon TARRUS RILEY will perform LIVE at the MEDLEY on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 with his band and alongside DUANE STEPHENSON (songs like: [...]

Rank 8 – 12 Category Name; Calypsonian – Song 1 Myles Gittens; Myles Z – For Our Future2 Gregerson Abraham; Young G – My Rights3 Rabiah Clarke; Small One – Tell Me4 Nicholas Roach-Holder; Lil Nick – Save Our Country5 Ric-Anne Brathwaite; Candy Princess – I am HIV 6 Daquon Wickham; Tall Boy – Something [...]

Many valid points were made at the Queen’s Park Gallery not so long ago when Antonio “Boo” Rudder introduced “ReEncounter” where Omowale Stewart, twin brother Sundiata and Ras Akyem revived DePAM: De People’s Art Movement which they began in the 70′s when Akyem drew figures more like Rodin rather than Picasso’s abstract period. Mr Rudder, [...]

This originally was done at an insomniac period earlier today, but now the Box Office figures are out on the Dark Knight, and not surprisingly the phrase “Heath Ledger’s last picture” or something to that effect is believed to have contributed massively to exceed projected sales… The opening day grosses for “The Dark Knight” far [...]

Popular Barbadian snake-hunter and founder of the Caribbean Herpetological Society Damon Corrie, has an offer that he thinks all Bajan Poultry and Agricultural farmers, exterminating companies & especially the new David Thompson administration – should take into serious consideration: Instead of wasting money to buy pesticides (which pollute our environment) to kill certain creatures considered [...]

This summer LIAT, THE Caribbean Airline is offering its passengers additional opportunities to travel between Puerto Rico, St. Maarten and St. Kitts. With this new flight schedule, passengers can now fly non-stop from San Juan to St. Maarten and from St. Kitts to San Juan; direct flights are now available from St. Maarten to San [...]

TENT; NAME – SOBRIQUET All Stars; Adrian Clarke – Adrian Clarke All Stars; Ronnie Clarke – De Announcer Bacchanal Time; Charles Smith – Romeo Bacchanal Time; William Waithe – Classic Bacchanal Time; David Piggott – Kid Site Bacchanal Time; Rameses Browne – Rameses De Big Show; Anthony Carter – Gabby De Big Show; John King [...]

TENT; NAME – SOBRIQUET All Stars; Kimberley Inniss – Kimberley Inniss All Stars; Miguel White – Miguel Bacchanal Time; Khiomal Nurse – Khiomal Bacchanal Time; Justin King – Justin King Bacchanal Time; Donella Weekes – Donella Bacchanal Time; Rameses Browne – Rameses Bacchanal Time; Peter Wiggins – Peter Ram De Big Show; Natalie Burke – [...]

The C.O. Williams Construction Team was forced to postpone the final paving on a section of the ABC Highway between the Emancipation Statue and the new roundabout at the Samuel Jackman Prescod PolyTechnic due to the weather conditions over the past several days. This work has been rescheduled for Monday and Tuesday and in the [...]

Residents of Nevis would this week receive free medical care through the collaborative efforts of the Nevis Island Administration?s (NIA) Ministry of Health and the Taiwan Mobile Medical Mission (TMMM). In a brief ceremony to mark the four-day medical initiative held at the Administrative Department of the Alexandra Hospital, on July 14, 2008, Minister of [...]

All creative Barbadians are invited to attend a BIM Writers Symposium for Saturday, July 26, 2008 from 9.00 A.M – 5.00 P.M at the Three W’s Pavilion, UWI. This event is possible thanks to the EBCCI and the Rockefeller Foundation. Professor George Lamming will give a brief address. Writers from the BIM’s Women’s issue will [...]

This event, it seems, is a 1st for Accra Beach…

The Socamixdown concept is by no means new to the music industry. For years pirates and deejays have taken the best songs and compiled mix tapes and CD’s and made them available for sale to the public. In most instances, the artistes, executive producers and producers have reaped little or no direct benefit from the [...]

Ministers from around the Caribbean were greeted by the PM in the garden of No 10 Downing Street today as part of the UK-Caribbean Ministerial Forum, while chance to hobnob with Gordon Brown may be appreciated – those Ministers were obviously looking for concessions and the jury is still out. This type of Forum was [...]

Government is hoping to deal with all-too-typical procedural lengthy delays which affect the civil service’s efficiency in delivering to its various clients. Minister of State with responsibility for Labour, Employment Relations and the Social Partnership, Senator Arni Walters made this disclosure yesterday while addressing a strategic planning workshop for the Civil Service at Almond Bay, [...]

Digicel, sponsors of Caribbean Football, officially launched the Digicel Caribbean Championships 2008 in Curacao recently. Fixtures for the upcoming tournament, which promises to be even bigger and better than last DCC, were unveiled – as well as an announcement by the CFU of a change to the name of the tournament. Previously known as the [...]