Folk singer Joe Jencks shared a musical experience of pure Americana last Sunday at the George Washington House. On the eve of the United States’ July 4th Independence Day celebrations, Jencks gave the appreciative and musically knowledgeable audience an engaging history lesson on his country, using just his guitar and his rich voice. Over the [...]

The Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships held their opening ceremony Tuesday evening at the Almond Beach Hotel, St. Peter. Tourism Minister Richard Sealy was late in arriving and communicated the pageantry should flow without him, Sealy eventually addressed the golfers from nine countries. Before his subsequent appearance, however, action unfolded that no one had foreseen – it was [...]

Barbadians are too quick to judge entrepreneurs whose businesses don’t succeed immediately, this bracing assessment from Chuck Mills III a former Marine One Pilot now Capital Management expert who is in Barbados for his second address to participants at the University of the West Indies thanks to the US Embassy for Barbados & the Eastern Caribbean. During [...]

The cream of amateur golf in the region will be showcased at Royal Westmoreland between Wednesday and Saturday with competition in the Hoerman Cup for men, the women’s championship and Mid-Amateurs, Seniors and Super Seniors for men. Puerto Rico has been the dominant nation in recent years in the Hoerman Cup and much attention will [...]

The Olympus Theatres Inc. is giving back to children with disabilities, through a series of movie events this summer. They have joined hands with Variety – the Children’s Charity and the Let’s Show Them Love Public Awareness Campaign for Children with Disabilities to offer a free pre-summer break movie event. The movie events will continue [...]

South Africa are on the home strait to victory in the Third Digicel Test. The West Indian fortress that was Kensington Oval had long been breached; these days visiting teams look forward to playing Test matches at the venue with anticipation, rather than apprehension. South Africa are the latest international team to have enjoyed the [...]

Eighteen countries representing some seventeen affiliates area attending the 53rd Annual International Convention and 39th Annual General Meeting of the Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions. Delegates from affiliates, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Netherland Antilles, St Kitts and Nevis, , St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, [...]

Sea turtle conservationists on Nevis announced recently that they had successfully retrieved a satellite tracking device from a female sea turtle named Ginger. She had been named and tagged three years earlier in programme which involved the Four Seasons Resort, Nevis, the Caribbean Conservation Association and the Nevis Turtle Group. President of the Group Mr. [...]

If you’re at work and you decide to listen to the audio clips, be sure to keep the volume low or get some headphones as the vernacular may disturb some and that don’t take much here in Barbados, even if privately we say worse… One other point – the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Cultural Centre must donate that [...]

The popular proverb is if you are handed a lime to get more and make lemonade – but that wasn’t what the greeters were serving outside the Concorde Experience while waiting for cricket teams of the Proteas and Windies, it was fruit punch and speaking of ‘punch,’ – the phone booths were knocked out by [...]

Perhaps it was just as well that ZA was not there and this was why the Windies were less morose than usual? Here’s their Captain Chris Gayle (for how much longer, no one knows) sharing a lighter moment with Barry O’Brien, the Manager of Digicel Barbados

It was supposed to be both the Windies and Proteas, but the ZA crew never made it, not that Sulieman cared, he was Benn up – or rather his partner was… This was a preliminary to the disastrous Third Test now dragging on. You’d’ve thought this would spur the Windies but noooo!

Barbados Free Press did a number of articles on the Road Toll gang in the north of Barbados, even down to when the Prime Minister (may he get well soon) sought to heavily downplay any such attacks before the mainstream media decided to grow testicles and examine the issue and not credit the blogs as [...]

This battle could have been augmented if wireless mic’s were attached to the sabres, so their ambient noise would be transferred to the crowd and not just the user – however, bearing in mind this is the first ever such attempt in Barbados. The choreography while rough was full of bravura and should be saluted [...]

The West Indies batting demons continue to haunt them after a one match absence in the Second Digicel Test in St Kitts when they scored 546 on a friendly pitch. On day one of the Third Digicel Test at the Kensington Oval, their batsmen took backward steps and reverted to their old habits as displayed [...]

It was a night of intimacy with Blak Kla Soyl, who started the night with Jazz and ballards, Blak Kla Soyl style. She spoke about how she received her songs, and the inspiration given to execute them. The band who consist of Jamal Browne on traps, Simon Pipe on guitar and a young and upcoming [...]

From warrior to Wall Street vice-president. Sounds like an unusual career move, but Charlie ‘Chuck’ Mills III, a former Marine corps captain and pilot turned investment bank executive turned entrepreneur, says it’s not as strange as you’d think. “In the context of an aircraft you are required to think multi-dimensionally and think about multiple things [...]

Thanks to strong colors and a high-impact design, the Breitling Jet Team – the world’s only professional civilian flight team performing on jets – is aiming for new heights with an entirely redesigned black, anthracite grey and metal grey livery. A powerful, taut and dynamic appearance to match its soaring accomplishments. The Breitling Jet Team [...]

Recalled opening batsman, Barbadian Dale Richards, says that he views his latest opportunity with the West Indies Test side as a case of “nothing to lose”. Speaking with the media prior to the Windies training session at Kensington Oval – where the Third Digicel Test will commence on Saturday – Richards said that at his [...]

Kamau Brathwaite is a well-known and according to many, much maligned Barbadian and unjustly so… Although his 80th birthday was in May, the Queen’s Park Gallery has given more time for you to appreciate his work by extending an exhibition, where artists interpret his influence, to 3rd July and there are many works! Leslie Taylor, Ras Akyem, [...]

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The State of Israel has pledged to assist St. Kitts and Nevis in its ongoing efforts to diversify the agricultural sector. Israeli Ambassador His Excellency Amiram Magid highlighted that commitment during an interview that aired on Tuesday’s edition of SKNIS Perspectives. “Since the sugar cane industry does not exist anymore on the island you are [...]

THE POUI (Creative Writing) PROJECT and Africana Theater Lab, SIU Carbondale invite you to a staged reading of two plays directed by Segun Ojewuyi on Saturday 26 at 7.30 pm and Sunday 27 June at 6.00 pm at the ARTS LECTURE THEATRE, Cave Hill On Saturday 26 June at 7.30 pm: PREEMPTIVE by Niyi Coker [...]