Tag Archives: Bridgetown

  1. Crop Over Stalwart challenges Freundel Stuart Regime over commitment to Kadooment: Government Should Acquire Globe Cinema

    One of the challenges that face tent managers every year is a Shortage of adequate and reasonable venues. We would like to support the motion that the Government acquire the Globe Cinema to be utilised by calypso tents and other cultural entities. Acquiring the Globe cinema would be more cost effective option to refurbishing the [...]

    May 17, 2012Culture, EditorialNo comments
  2. The Politics of Excuses and Contradiction by Henderson Bovell

    While delivering the feature address of the Central Bank of Barbados on May 5th 2012, at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Prime Minister Stuart said: “My own view, as Prime Minister of Barbados, is that the Central Bank of Barbados has always acted cautiously on the strength of its profound understanding of the complexity of [...]

    May 8, 2012BusinessNo comments
  3. Central Bank of Barbados’ 40th Anniversary: Grand Salle’s Open Day – Dr DeLisle Worrell

    Dr DeLisle Worrell spoke for 30 mins with an attentive audience then entertained questions for another half hour, many of the better queries emerging from the younger crowd – full story to come…

    May 5, 2012Business, Photo GalleryNo comments
  4. Central Bank of Barbados’ 40th Anniversary: Grand Salle’s Open Day – Incisive Students

    The pupils from various secondary schools across Barbados were eager to listen to the Governor’s address at Lunchtime, these students ended up asking better questions than the Media, myself included!

    May 5, 2012Education, Photo GalleryNo comments
  5. Central Bank of Barbados’ 40th Anniversary: Grand Salle’s Open Day – Appreciation with Coins of Barbados

    This item was donated by the company who mills the coins for Barbados

    May 5, 2012Business, Photo GalleryNo comments
  6. Central Bank of Barbados’ 40th Anniversary: Grand Salle’s Open Day – African Treasures

    The Central Bank of Nigeria presented this token for the Central Bank on their Tenth Anniversary

    May 5, 2012Business, Photo GalleryNo comments
  7. Central Bank of Barbados’ 40th Anniversary: Grand Salle’s Open Day – Accounts Dept.

    Members of the public learn from the Accounts division how they’re far quicker than when the Central Bank started in 1972 due to keeping pace with modernisation.

    May 5, 2012Business, Photo GalleryNo comments
  8. A DLP ‘May Day’ Distress Signal for Barbadians (LETTER TO THE EDITOR) by Henderson Bovell

    Research shows that “Mayday signals” are so serious that they must only be communicated when “there is grave and imminent danger to life.” That is why most countries are said to impose huge penalties for false, unwarranted or prank distress signals. But making promises is a DLP trademark and that is the dilemma. Under the [...]

    May 3, 2012Editorial, PoliticalNo comments
  9. The Barbados Community College’s Graphics PORTFOLIO 2012

    The Barbados Community College is pleased to announce the annual showcase of the Bachelor of Art Degree in Graphic Design ‘Portfolio’ at the Grande Salle in the Central Bank of Barbados. Entitled ‘Cloud 9’, which makes references to joy and optimism, students explore concept and media through a variety of visual styles that reflect their [...]

    May 3, 2012Education, Photo GalleryNo comments
  10. BARBADOS ECONOMY SEEMS LIKE IT’S IN A COMA AND ON LIFE-SUPPORT by Henderson N. Bovell

    Contrary to what the Central Bank Governor now tells the country – this world was always characterised by “uncertainty!” That, perhaps, was the feeling of the Dinosaurs; Christopher Columbus; the Arawaks; America’s first President and Grantley Adams. In fact, the world will still be an “uncertain” place, long after Barbados’ next leader takes office: it [...]

    May 1, 2012Business, EditorialNo comments
  11. DRUGS, FIREARM SEIZURES AND ARRESTS – AS POLICE IN BARBADOS HOLD A WANTED MAN

    An operation was carried out in Bridgetown on Saturday April 28, 2012 by various branches of the Force. Several warrants were executed at three (3) stores, two on Roebuck Street and one on Broad Street, and as a result the following seizures and arrests were made. Trevor Dacosta Hurdle, 31 years of Uncle’s Place, Roebuck [...]

    April 29, 2012Breaking News, CrimeNo comments
  12. CENTRAL BANK OF #BARBADOS TO HOST OPEN HOUSE ON ITS 40th #BIRTHDAY #masonic #princehall #freemason #danbrown

    The Central Bank of Barbados is inviting the public to learn more about its operations when it hosts an Open Day on May 2, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. She stated further that the event will showcase the Bank’s financing opportunities available to businesses through its guarantee schemes, and provide information on how [...]

    April 20, 2012Business, EventsNo comments
  13. RENEWAL OF FIREARM LICENSES BY 30th APRIL 2012: Reminder from the Royal Barbados Police Force #gunlicenses #police #money #finance #revenue #barbados

    The Administration of the Royal Barbados Police Force advises members of the public who have not regularized their firearm licenses to do so by 30 April 2012.

    April 20, 2012CrimeNo comments
  14. Launch of Historic Bridgetown Public Awareness and Education Programme #barbados #architecture #unesco #unitednations #culture

    For most Barbadians, the question as to what the UNESCO designation of Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, as a World Heritage Site really means will now be further explained in the coming months following the launch of a public education and awareness programme today. This launch is part of the public education and awareness strategy [...]

    April 5, 2012Culture, EventsNo comments
  15. #Bridgetown shootout leads to fatality: 27 year old male gone as #Barbados #Police seize 1,000 lbs of #Marijuana

    An armed conflict where members of the Royal Barbados Police Force responded in kind just after 11.00 pm on Tuesday April 04, 2012, at Cheapside, Bridgetown, left a man dead as a result. Jamar Andre Maynard, 27 years of Denton Road, Grazettes, St. Michael is now dead from the incident in question. Two detective Constables [...]

    April 4, 2012Controversy, Crime1 comment
  16. Bajan Reporter’s day in Court? Watches Mede stroll by as Persians struggle with Metal Detector? #discrimination #judiciary #barbados #security #legal #courts #bridgetown

    Ok, was invited for an event at the Supreme Court, mis-read the time and got a totally different story by getting waylaid in queue. Simplified version, next part? Never liked discrimination – even to my advantage, if a bank has a teller for Gold or Platinum users? I feel like organising the villagers, torches and [...]

    April 3, 2012Editorial1 comment
  17. HEAD OF BARBADOS’ DISABILITIES UNIT CONGRATULATES RECENTLY APPOINTED SENATE PRESIDENT #upperchamber #barbados #differentlyabled #disability #senate #government

    This island’s President of the Senate, Senator Kerry Ann Ifill, has been described as “a tremendous asset” to the National Disabilities Unit (NDU) and someone who “inspires and motivates, not only Persons with Disabilities, but everyone who comes into contact with her”. These remarks have come from Acting Director of the NDU, Lloyd Springer, who [...]

    March 28, 2012Health, PoliticalNo comments
  18. Cheng + Volcker = (inverted) Goldman Sachs? When profits on Marginal bonds go septic, what price profit? #finance #stocks #paulvolcker #chengsiwei #speculative #bonds

    It seems the Central Bank of Barbados despite certain “Inverse Economics” the other day has its collective finger on the planetary financial pulse; two ‘sold-out‘ {sic: both were open to public} performances from financial gurus respected everywhere imaginable… The first draw was Paul Volcker, known to be an adviser for more than one administration of [...]

    March 21, 2012Business, EditorialNo comments
  19. Honey Jam at Frank Collymore Hall deemed a Great Success by organisers

    On Wednesday, March 14, some of the Honey Jam Barbados alumni, along with Hall manager Fran Wickham and Honey Jam Barbados producer Ebonnie Rowe, took to the stage at Frank Collymore Hall to a packed house and rave reviews. This concert was part of Frank Collymore Hall’s free concert series and provided a great opportunity [...]

    March 19, 2012MusicNo comments
  20. Q.E.H BLOOD BANK OF BARBADOS REPORTS URGENT NEED FOR BLOOD DONORS

    The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) Blood Bank is issuing an urgent call for blood donors and is asking all members of the public who are healthy to donate blood as soon as possible as all blood types are needed at this time. The Blood Bank monitors blood supplies to ensure donations are keeping pace with [...]

    March 19, 2012HealthNo comments
  21. BARBADIAN MALES CHARGED FOR ILLEGAL FIREARM, AMMUNITION, ROBBERY AND AGGRAVATED BURGLARY OFFENCES

    Detectives attached to the Southern Division have arrested and charged the below mentioned persons for the following offences: 1. Kemar Tamar Waldron, 25 years of Back Ivy, St. Michael: • Illegal possession of a firearm. 2. Richan Robert Waldron 20, years of Back Ivy, St. Michael: • Illegal possession of thirty (30) rounds of ammunition. [...]

    March 15, 2012CrimeNo comments
  22. Calling all Screenwriters! CaribbeanTales hosting – “Script2Screen 2012 – Screenwriting Clinic.”

    CaribbeanTales 2012 @ Island Inn, in collaboration with the National Cultural Foundation and the Bridgetown Film Academy, announces the 3rd annual “Script2Screen” Screenplay reading series. In 2010 Script2Screen hosted a workshop reading of acclaimed novellist Oonya Kempadoo‘s screenplay TIDE RUNNING based on her award winning novel of the same name, and directed by US-based Jamaican [...]

    March 13, 2012Cinema, EducationNo comments
  23. Cheng Siwei addresses Central Bank Of Barbados “Rebalancing China, Pt 3″

      Barbados was just treated to a rare appearance from China’s Government and knowledge was shared at the Grand Salle of the Central Bank in the City with key Media and noted members of the Business Community… Professor Cheng Siwei is the Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s [...]

    March 12, 2012Travel, Video GalleryNo comments
  24. Cheng Siwei addresses Central Bank Of Barbados “Rebalancing China, Pt 2″

    A one-time guest of the BBC and interviewed by Steven Sackur, now addressing Bajans at the Grand Salle in Bridgetown over the weekend; Chairman of the China Democratic and National Construction Association Central Committees in 1996-1998. Member of the 6th and 7th National Committees of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC); Deputy to the [...]

    March 12, 2012Education, Video GalleryNo comments
  25. Cheng Siwei addresses Central Bank Of Barbados “Rebalancing China, Pt 1″

    Cheng Si-wei, a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan Province, Cheng was born in June 1935; and obtained MBA from University of Carifornia, Los Angeles, USA. He recently visited Barbados and addressed a capacity audience at the Grand Salle of the Central Bank of Barbados. {APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE FOR AUDIO QUALITY, ONE MUST ALSO BEAR IN MIND [...]

    March 12, 2012Business, Video GalleryNo comments