Major traffic jam on main Highway 2 of West Coast of Barbados. Moving 4 leggers and moving 4 wheelers collaborated to keep traffic inching forward minutes later.

I only write to you when something extremely important or something extremely exciting is happening and I simply could not keep this extremely delightful and wonderful news to myself: The St. Michael Central Branch of the Barbados Labour Party will be having a Recession-Friendly-LIME at their Branch Office (Stuart’s Land, Savannah Road, Bush Hall, St. [...]

Outgoing chairman of the Overseas Countries & Territories Association (OCTA) Montserrat’s Reuben T. Meade encouraged the European Union Commission to defend the OCT’s in the international fora where they have no voice. Meade was speaking at the opening of the three-day EU-OCT Forum in Brussels, where he spoke on behalf of the ministers of the [...]

Caribbean Prestige Foundation for the Performing Arts will take the Digicel International Soca Monarch competition to the World Wide Web with live streaming in High Definition (HD) via Carnival TV’s signature series, LIVEOnStage2Nite. The pay-per-view (PPV) broadcast will go live from the Arima Velodrome for four hours from 8:00 p.m. (00:00:00Z) with the semi finals [...]

Violent crime is indeed a major challenge to human development in the Caribbean… Produced after a thorough consultation and based on a telltale survey responded by more than 11,000 citizens from seven countries, the Caribbean Human Development Report 2012 Report reviews the current state of crime in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, as well as [...]

HBO Latin America announced the February 5th premiere of new original series Luck. Created by David Milch, Luck explores the provocative world of gambling surrounding a California horse track. Directed by Michael Mann in the series’ pilot, the drama’s stellar cast stars Oscar® winner Dustin Hoffman and Oscar® nominee Nick Nolte. Lavishly produced and expertly [...]

With a total of 28 entries received and several records being broken on the day, the recently concluded 2012 edition of the Mount Gay Rum Round Barbados Race has certainly been heralded as a resounding success. In many ways this year’s event not only lived up to, but also surpassed several of the organisers’ expectations, [...]

President of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr. Warren Smith, will hold his first major news conference for 2012 next week. Traditionally, the CDB President hosts a news conference at the beginning of each year, to report on CDB’s performance the previous year. In addition, the President discusses the performance of the Bank’s borrowing member countries, [...]

It is not the norm for one to read a history book from cover to cover in one sitting. However, with Friendly Anger, one is compelled to read Joseph Lake, Jr.’s account of “The rise of the labor movement in St. Martin” from its inception to the present. Lake’s style of writing is very simple, [...]

The Row2Recovery boat had been taking part in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, dubbed the world’s toughest rowing race, and the team’s arrival in Barbados was preceded by six other teams of rowers. The team were welcomed by a huge crowd of supporters including several staff from the British High Commission and the Deputy High [...]

Except perhaps for Trinidad, the Caribbean has the most peaceful and cooperative Muslims compared to the rest of the planet. Barbados especially has most of that laconic stock here – certain evidence of that was when the Medinah Foundation was respected as a main contributor to the YWCA’s Breakfast Club now in its 5th year… [...]

Christopher Heyerdahl, who has been chosen to play Dieter Braun in Season 5 of True Blood appears on Urban Rush and talks about True Blood, Hell on Wheel, and Sanctuary. In True Blood his character is an ancient, powerful vampire who plays a large part in the intelligence of the Authority and especially enjoys enhanced [...]

Chairman of the Jamaica College Foundation, the Honorable R. Danny Williams provided an update to the JCOBAFL members of the efforts by the Jamaica College Foundation and school board to continue to improve the school. He admonished members to continue to play a role in helping the school as they try to educate young men [...]

Ok, so this is near and dear to me, but probably also Chris Sinckler, Owen Arthur and Mia Mottley… No, not politics – birthdates!

Six records were broken and six skippers won their weight in Extra Old Mount Gay Rum when the Barbados Cruising Club successfully hosted the 2012 Mount Gay Rum Round Barbados Race on Saturday 21st January 2012. Perfect conditions out on the water saw the ‘round Barbados records tumble. The race attracted 28 entries from around [...]

Dragon Fly Mass is a street party and carnival VIP band with the slogan “come for the parties and stay for the mass”. DFM is envisaged as an all-inclusive premium membership band catering to over 400 members and offering a white-glove service, as we raise the bar of VIP membership and service in Barbados for [...]

After close to three weeks, there finally appears to be light at the end of the tunnel with the Jeff Broomes Vs. Teachers of Alexandra Secondary fracas… Prime Minister Freundel Stuart eventually deigned to step in long after the Education Ministry should have intervened, which has many Bajans wondering – could it have been handled [...]

On January 12, True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten attended the Qantas Airways’ Spirit of Australia Party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California. There he discussed True Blood Season 5 and what’s to come for Jason Stackhouse in the upcoming season and what film projects he has in the works.

HBO Latin America enriches its premium television offering with the launch of a new HBO channel, HBO Signature. This new channel, which can only be enjoyed by those who subscribe to HBO’s premium package, arrives to further enhance the originality and exclusivity of the brand’s original programming by offering the market’s most premium and acclaimed [...]

The Dominican Republic’s National Drug Control Department (DNCD) detected a package of marijuana which was vacuum-packed for sending to New York via a courier company. The drugs were mailed to Eddy Garcia in Queens and the sender was identified as Arsenio Espinal Lara. DNCD spokesman Roberto Lebron said that the sender had been located and [...]

As part of its Entrepreneur’s development training program Global Event Planners will be hosting the Caribbean Entrepreneurs’ Conference & Expo (CECAE), scheduled for Wednesday 22nd, and Thursday 23rd February, 2012, at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Two Mile Hill, St. Michael, Barbados. The conference will open from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. This year’s theme [...]

As part of the Post-Tomas Recovery project in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, their National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) recently concluded a workshop on damage and loss assessments, facilitated by Mr. Lancelot Busby, Statistical Economist. The three [...]

Ministers attending the Seventh Ministerial UK-Caribbean Forum held in St. George’s, Grenada, have agreed on an Action Plan with accords reached on several topical themes: economic resilience; security; climate change and sustainable development as well as other foreign policy issues – except for the crisis over Air Passenger Duty, is this because Bajan Reporter was not [...]

Eight lectures are on the cards for the Barbados Museum and Historical Society’s 2012 Lecture Series which will be held under the theme This the time to Knock on the Door of Your Government, a statement expressed by National Hero, the Right Excellent Clement Payne, shortly before the 1937 revolution. All lectures will be at [...]

Hey family, a blessed 2012 to ya… Wishing all of you a vibrant creative and uplifting year and I hope it has been great to you so far. Give thanks to you for your strong support of our IRON MIC! events and contributing greatly to their success. As you know, the show is on break [...]