While the 2011 Digicel Kick Start Clinics and Academy have come to an end, the thrill of the beautiful game is still going for two lucky Digicel customers who won an all-expenses paid trip to Sunderland to see the Premier League side face Blackburn Rovers in the Stadium of Light. The trip, which takes place [...]

The Barbados Policyholders and Investors Alliance (BIPA) is now in possession of the reports and affidavits filed with the High Court by the judicial managers for BAICO and CLICO, after petitioning the Court for these documents. BIPA Chairman, Mrs. June Fowler, said the documents were critical for the alliance to be able to fashion its [...]

St Lucian farmers and residents of their Babonneau community met Tuesday 22nd November 2011 with Mr. Dave Ames, Chairman of Harlequin Hotels and Resorts, and his team who own and are developing the eagerly anticipated Marquis Estate project. Mr. Ames and his team were welcomed by a community representative of Babonneau. The gathering was also [...]

Violence against women and girls touches Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean just as it does every other part of the world. Gender-based violence is a global pandemic that cuts across all borders – ethnicity, race, socio-economic status, and religion. It can threaten women and girls at any point in their life – from female feticide [...]

Ils ont change ma chanson, ma (ooh, not bad) Ils ont change ma chanson (uh-huh. Let me see here {franglish gibberish}) Ils ont change ma chanson (My French must be pretty bad, I better do this in English) Look what they done to my song, ma Look what they done to my song ma Put [...]

Members of the Drug Squad have arrested and charged Keith Richard Otway Allen, 34 years, a Vincentian national employed as a pilot, for the below mentioned offences: 1. Illegal possession of cannabis 2. Trafficking in an illegal drug – cannabis 3. Illegal possession with intent to supply 4. Importation of cannabis Allen is expected to [...]

MMA COMPETITION FIGHT CARD 3 rounds x 5minutes Light weight (145 to 154.9 lbs) Division Oneal Chase (150 lbs) – Barbados (ROCK) vs Julien Marie-Saint (157 lbs) – Martinique Welterweight (155 to 169.9 lbs) Division Ryan Leach (165lbs) – Barbados (Lions Den) vs Nicholas Goyon (158.4 lbs) – Martinique Renaldo Stuart (165 lbs) – Barbados [...]

Barbados’ national hero Sir Garfield Sobers brought cricket to unusual territory last Friday – the U.S. Embassy. FOSNA, the Embassy’s staff association run for and by local employees, hosted the cricketing legend for a lunchtime lecture as part of celebrations ahead of Barbados’ 45th anniversary of Independence on November 30. Both American and Barbadian staff [...]

Anderson Cooper’s latest show focused on what Americans call; “revenge porn,” whereby people post explicit photos of their exes online. Cooper hosted a guest named Angel, who submitted pictures of her two ex-friends to a porn website. She explained that the friends had “made some mistakes,” and that they had already submitted the pictures to [...]

Despite an official ceremony planned for Nov. 30, General Manager of the Nevis Air and Sea Ports Authority [NASPA], Mr. Spencer Hanley, and Airport Manager Mr. Stephen Hanley joined members of staff of the Vance W. Amory [VWA] International Airport in the inaugural welcome of United States-based airline, Cape Air. Cape Air, which touched down [...]

Finance minister Chris Sinckler does for Digicel what he would not for REDjet, urge his Cabinet colleagues to speed up permissions to amend the license for Digicel to expand into fixed lines for Commercial and Residential areas across the island… WATCH VIDEO FOR FULL STORY! The full transfer of Digicel customers into the fourth generation [...]

This was in TT during the flood of last weekend. My thanks to one of my most consistent observers!

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Subregional Office for Barbados and Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Barbados and Eastern Caribbean Office just signed a US $100,000 grant agreement to support the implementation of citizen’s engagement and dialogue initiatives, as a key component of its Inclusive Governance programme [...]

The fleet of medical emergency response vehicles in St. Kitts and Nevis has been boosted by three, thanks to the collaborative relationship between the Governments of St. Kitts and Nevis and the Republic of China (Taiwan). At a ceremony on Wednesday (November 23), Taiwan’s Resident Ambassador His Excellency Miguel Li-Jey Tsao reminded that a “healthy [...]

Visual & literary artist Katherine Felix, and poet & well-known art reviewer Carolle Bourne, are the featured writers at this month’s Writers Ink Tea Reading. Come, support them and share words of your own at the BAC Gallery, Pelican Village this Saturday 26th Nov; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

Alexander Skarsgård on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on the 12th of September 2011

The U.S. Embassy’s new reading initiative rolled into the St. Paul’s Primary School yesterday as we brought the “Books in a Bag” program to Barbados. The program includes a donation of a selection of the books from the 2011 American Library Association’s Notable Children’s Books list, packed into wheeled duffel bags so the books are [...]

“The biggest St. Martin Day ever!” is how Glenfield Gipson gleefully described the only annual “official” island-wide celebration. St. Martin Day celebrates the nation’s historical unity and the cultural dynamism of all of its people as One St. Martin Family. Radio personality Gipson was speaking to the eager listeners of the long-running Adventures in Book [...]

For many, when they hear of a Low Fares Carrier like Ryanair or Southwest they usually assume two things – rotten service and planes on their way out… In fact, if you attended the very initial launch of Airone (REDjet’s parent company) in October last year, their Marketing Manager Alicia Lynch played a hilarious video [...]

World renowned architect and interior designer Mr. Peter Inston recently dropped in at the Gallery of Caribbean Art in Speightstown for a private viewing of the Stephen R. Smith photography exhibition Out Of My Mind. The exhibition features an eclectic collection of fine art photography depicting dreamy land and seascapes, moonlit scenes, dramatic images of [...]

I am very pleased to be here today to announce over TEN MILLION U.S. DOLLARS in new U.S. assistance for the Air Wing of the Regional Security System. As you know, the Regional Security System has been at the forefront of the Caribbean’s fight against transnational crime for many years. The RSS Air Wing has [...]

A former and hardened elite agent (Jason Statham) takes on a mission: rescue a Chinese girl who’s been abducted by the Triads… In theaters March 2nd 2012

Plot: Sean Anderson partners with his mom’s boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

Representing what is new or canonical in Caribbean Literature is probably getting more difficult as the region’s national literature continues to produce more writers within the various countries and territories. But independent Cuban scholar Emilio Jorge Rodríguez recently went to one of Venezuela’s prestigious universities to do just that. “I was invited to give lectures [...]

The Wall Street Journal had some news which may surprise few Bajans and will be interesting to see Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition‘s reaction tomorrow, bearing in mind Owen Arthur and his stormy relationship with Winston Cox who showed far more integrity than many of his colleagues… Here’s what one of the more respected fiscal watchdogs [...]