Andrew Hutchinson is the lucky winner of a brand new Toyota Yaris compliments of the Barbados Association of Retired Persons. The BARP Raffle which had been on for some months came to an exciting climax on December 21st on the occasion of the association’s Christmas Staff Party at the Barbados Yacht Club. The draw was [...]

The UNDP’s Subregional Office for Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) provided US$170,000 to support the recently concluded 6th Annual Comprehensive Disaster Management Conference (CDM) in Trinidad and Tobago, coordinated by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA). Since 2006, the CDM Conference has united disaster management and other thematic experts to [...]

Audiences around St. Kitts have been treated to a series of community recitals that have uplifted the spirits of senior citizens, thrilled the general public and entertained the nation’s youth. The St. Kitts-Nevis Defence Force Band has been spreading Christmas cheer with performances at the Department of Culture’s in the Spirit of Christmas, the Saddler’s [...]

Fasten your seatbelts – another slug & shoot-fest with Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Jean Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis & Arnold Schwarzenegger too…

The streaming lights, the Christmas carols, the bustling crowds in Bridgetown are a dead give away that the yuletide season is here again. This is a time that evokes a great deal of chatter about the things people cherish the most. Many promises are made and the excitement created is intense. It’s a time of [...]

The West Indies Cricket Board/Digicel Grassroots Cricket Programme 2011, which has been reinvigorating youth cricket across the Caribbean since April, came to a close yesterday with a series of cluster games across nine countries. Over 2600 aspiring young cricketers from across Grenada, BVI, St. Lucia, Anguilla, St. Vincent, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and [...]

“I don’t know where to start, but it was quite an eye opener, since civilization began there are certain things that we take for granted, The basic things like our senses you will only realise it when you lose them…. as they say “Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what [...]

Agent J travels back in time to save the world.

St Martin’s Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) ranked 10th in a global poll of some 79 nominated airports to determine the one with the most stunning approach. Some 1,000 travel fans from around the globe took part in the poll conducted by PrivateFly.com, the leading online booking platform for private aviation charter and winner of [...]

It was not that my father never stood on convention, he acknowledged where he felt it was expected – such as Diplomats & Royalty – but for the most part he ignored it… About 1984, he was seconded to Grenada for their elections, so he went to speak with J.M.G.M “Tom” Adams at Bay Street [...]

Head of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force, Celvin G. Walwyn, has urged residents to remain vigilant as criminals will seek to exploit any vulnerabilities over the Christmas and Carnival season. “They will try to break into your houses and take your items,” Commissioner Walwyn said. “Don’t open your door if you don’t [...]

The Under-17′s WICB Grassroots Cluster Games come to a close with participants from nine Caribbean countries taking part, all part of the West Indies Cricket Board Digicel Grassroots Cricket Programme which is reinvigorating youth cricket across the Caribbean. Aspiring young cricketers in Grenada, BVI, St. Lucia, Anguilla, St. Vincent, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, [...]

Claudia Edward was one of the four featured artists contracted to perform at the very first “Caribbean Queens Tour” hosted in the land of her birth – Martinique on Saturday December 17th 2011. The event was held at La Kaz in Schoelcher, a club well known for live performances by foreign musicians. The opportunity presented [...]

The Digicel Haiti Foundation just opened their new College Classique d’Haiti school buildings in Turgeau, Port-au-Prince, making it the last of 50 schools rebuilt as part of the Digicel Foundation’s initial commitment following the devastating earthquake which struck the country on January 12th 2010. The co-founder of the College Classique d’Haiti, Maitre André Jean, and [...]

An excerpt of Charlaine Harris’ upcoming Sookie Stackhouse book, “Deadlocked” is now available to read online. Go HERE to read the excerpt. You can also pre-order the book at Amazon.com by clicking on THIS link. This next edition of the series will be available on May 1, 2012.

Life music artiste O’Neil Duncan says he has faith that his music will continue to touch hearts. The artiste who last month released his debut album in Cayman, is also planning to visit Jamaica over the Christmas holidays to promote the work called I Know. To promote the first single off the album O’Neil has [...]

The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis and the Caribbean stands to benefit from the placement of Dr. Merle Lewis as the new Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) Representative for the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados as well as the newly created residential post of PAHO Country Programme Specialist. Dr. Lewis just visited the Federation in [...]

Samuel Allen, Jr. is a broadcaster who appears to be on the verge of making Internet news media history in St. Martin. For the second consecutive year, Allen’s SXMISLANDTIME.COM has won the SHTA Pineapple Award for Outstanding Journalism (2011). There is more going on here than Allen distinguishing himself as the only media representative to [...]

Investing in a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) is a practice many Barbadians are now becoming more familiar with as it relates to putting measures in place to ensure their financial security in their later years. However, much still remains unclear about what exactly is a RRSP, in addition to the benefits it provides. These [...]

How It Happened I have, for so many years, wanted to create a free online reference book where anyone, in any part of the world, may access the creative people in Barbados. I could not do this on my own and Kathy Yearwood heard of my idea, offered to partner with me and I happily [...]

A conference organised by the Government of Suriname on 21 and 22 October 2011, which was meant to clarify positions and proposals on land rights and build mutual understanding between the Government and indigenous and tribal (maroon) peoples, ended in a very abrupt manner. The Government even called it “a disaster” on 23 October 2011. [...]

The crafty cat plans a Christmas caper to cop a carcass.

Haiti continues to send clear messages that the country is open, wide open, for business. Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative – Haitian Action Network Forum (GCI/HAN), Haiti’s Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul, pointed to the abundant investment opportunities throughout Haiti and reiterated the aggressive, positive steps the Haitian Government is taking to make [...]

You’ll recall a recent item which showed a condom sporting some of the distinguishing marks of Louis Vuitton created a stir over at Limegrove, where the popular leather emporium, now branching into Pret-A-Porter or Ready To Wear clothing, was concerned over the story despite Huffington Post and this Web Magazine acknowledging the “Frenchie” was in [...]

Around ten Non-Governmental Organisations in Barbados stand to benefit from a $250,000 European Union funded grants programme with emphasis on human rights and human resource development. This was announced by Head of the European Union Delegation to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Ambassador Valeriano Diaz, who said the initiative will be co-ordinated by the EU-funded [...]