Tag Archives: Europe

  1. HBO Premieres Documentary Tonite: A Special Day – MAX this evening will premiere the documentary directed by Gilles Jacob

    HBO Latin America announced that it will premiere the documentary, A Special Day, this evening May 21st at 9 pm, only one day after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in order to mark the celebration of the 65th edition of the festival. Directed by Gilles Jacob, president of the Cannes Film Festival, and [...]

    May 21, 2012Cinema, CultureNo comments
  2. Montserrat’s Premier signs off on 10th European Development Funds Agreement

    Montserrat signed a new agreement this week to receive 10th European Development Funds (EDF) which have been earmarked to support the government’s development goals. Premier Reuben T. Meade signed on behalf of Montserrat after which Ambassador Valeriano Diaz, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean added his signature. A [...]

    May 17, 2012Business, PoliticalNo comments
  3. OLYMPIC FLAME HANDED TO LONDON IN GREECE

    Today the Olympic Flame will be handed to London for the third time since the birth of the Olympic Games. Its journey to the UK and the Opening Ceremony of London 2012 will begin. During an hour-long ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the Olympic Flame will be handed to HRH The Princess Royal, [...]

    May 17, 2012Culture, OlympicsNo comments
  4. TRUE BLOOD RETURNING TO HBO – Making season five a same day-and-date premiere with the U.S.

    HBO Latin America announced that the anticipated fifth season of the smash-hit comedy-drama series True Blood premieres in the Caribbean on June 10th, the same day as the U.S. Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, the Emmy®-nominated show takes place at a time when vampires have come out of the coffin, and follows the on-and-off [...]

    May 16, 2012Books, Cinema, Video GalleryNo comments
  5. Breitling set to fly with the International Air Sports Federation (FAI)

    The specialist in chronographs and instruments for professionals signed a long-term partnership agreement on May 10th with the International Air Sports Federation (FAI). This is the logical culmination of a long and distinguished history intimately bound up with the conquest of the skies. Its aim is to regulate all aeronautical competitions internationally, to validate records [...]

    May 14, 2012Culture, SportsNo comments
  6. HBO’s True Blood, Season 5: Waiting Sucks: Sam & Luna

    Season 5 of “True Blood” premieres Sunday, June 10th. For more on True Blood, go to http://itsh.bo/HAObVp or jump in on the Twitter conversations http://twitter.com/truebloodhbo #trueblood. Watch True Blood online at HBO GO® http://itsh.bo/hWfz80. With HBO GO, you can watch every episode of every season of True Blood on your iPad® (http://itsh.bo/hbogoapple), iPhone® (http://itsh.bo/hbogoapple) or [...]

    May 13, 2012Books, Cinema, Video GalleryNo comments
  7. True Blood Season 5: (EXTENDED) #WaitingSucks – Eric and Pam

    Tumblr – http://truebloodsource.tumblr.com/ Make sure to follow True Blood Source on Twitter and Tumblrfor all True Blood updates! Twitter – http://twitter.com/TrueBloodSource

    May 8, 2012Books, Cinema, Video GalleryNo comments
  8. #WaitingSucks – True Blood: Conjuring Up Season 4 Marathon

    Watch True Blood online at HBO GO® http://itsh.bo/hWfz80. With HBO GO, you can watch every episode of every season of True Blood on your iPad® (http://itsh.bo/hbogoapple), iPhone® (http://itsh.bo/hbogoapple) or Android™ (http://itsh.bo/hbogoandroid) smartphone. Free with your HBO subscription through participating TV providers. Check out True Blood on Facebook & Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/trueblood http://www.twitter.com/truebloodhbo Check-in to True Blood [...]

    May 7, 2012Books, Cinema, Video GalleryNo comments
  9. 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
  10. “Juvenescence” at Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination ’til May 11th: Adam Patterson

    Anyone who knows Greek mythology would be aware that Aphrodite is not really an accurate name for defining motherly love, PLUS it was Zeus who gave birth to Pallas Athene only after Hephaestos struck Zeus’ swollen head with an axe. This sculpture is more in line with this story, rather than a representation of the [...]

    May 1, 2012Photo Gallery, Sculpture5 comments
  11. Marvel’s The Avengers on May 4th – “Balance”

    SPOILER ALERT – According to some fanboys, it seems Thanos is being dusted off for the next Avenger’ foray on the silver screen! Be sure to view credits all the way down…

    April 29, 2012Books, Cinema, Video GalleryNo comments
  12. Kenny’s 2012/2013 budget preview and the lost pledge of jobs, jobs, jobs! By Melanius Alphonse

    As attractive as the tagline reads; Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, priority number one, the bigger issue is – where will the jobs be in Kenny’s 2012/2013 budget. Surprise, Surprise let’s face it. The economy is still in negative growth and the forecast is still cautious or, rather, sluggish to be precise. Saint Lucia has the highest percentage [...]

    April 23, 2012Editorial, PoliticalNo comments
  13. Harris Paints Championing both Consumers & Jobs Despite International Price Pressure #paints #barbados #jobs #employment #hardware #sales #wages

    Barbados’ private sector has done well to cope with the worst effects of the prolonged worldwide economic recession. This assertion has come from Harris Paints Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing Luke Ticknor who singled out the contribution being made by homegrown Barbadian companies as being particularly worthy of special mention, noting that every effort [...]

    April 20, 2012BusinessNo comments
  14. Quest for G-Spot was since Victoria Regina – ‘Hysteria’ with Rupert Everett & Jonathan Pryce #orgasm #sex #london #britain

    A romantic comedy based on the truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.

    April 17, 2012Cinema, Oddity, Video GalleryNo comments
  15. #BARBADOS #PRIVATESECTOR #TRADE TEAM TO CONCLUDE #IDB FUNDED SENSITISATION CAMPAIGN ON #EPA

    The Barbados Private Sector Trade Team (BPSTT) is set to conclude a series of Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) funded workshops and roundtable discussions designed to sensitise business owners, managers, workers and business support organisations on the Economic Partnership Agreement between the countries of CARIFORUM and the European Union. The workshop, titled “Service/Dis-Service: Navigating the EPA” [...]

    April 16, 2012BusinessNo comments
  16. #TrueBlood Season 5 Teaser: #WaitingSucks – Terry/Patrick #charlaineharris #southernvampire

    Season 5 of “True Blood” premieres Sunday 10th June. For more information on True Blood, go to http://itsh.bo/HAObVp or jump in on the Twitter conversations http://twitter.com/truebloodhbo #trueblood.

    April 16, 2012Books, Cinema, Video GalleryNo comments
  17. #Barbadian #composer spreads his wings at #MIDEM: #Jazz #musician inks co-publishing deal with #German publisher

    After a successful mission to MIDEM earlier this year, local jazz saxophonist and composer Andre Woodvine is pleased to announce the signing of a co-publishing deal with German publisher, “The Audio Factory.” The Audio Factory was founded in 1987 as a music production company for media. The company located in Hamburg has grown to a [...]

    April 13, 2012Music, Travel1 comment
  18. #WaitingSucks – #TrueBlood Season 5: Russell WHO?? – Sookie/Alcide #southernvampire #charlaineharris #sookiestackhouse

    #WaitingSucks less with a taste of an exclusive True Blood: Season 5 scene. Head to HBO GO now to see an extended version of this video. HBO GO is free with your subscription through participating TV providers. http://itsh.bo/HmE7Ff Season 5 of “True Blood” premieres Sunday, June 10th.

    April 11, 2012Books, Cinema, Video GalleryNo comments
  19. Waiting Sucks – True Blood Season 5: Clip Teaser #trueblood #waitingsucks #hbola #southernvampire #sookiestackhouse #charlaineharris

    Catch Season 5 of “True Blood” this summer. For more information on True Blood, go to http://itsh.bo/ibzU7X or jump in on the Twitter conversations http://twitter.com/truebloodhbo #trueblood. Watch True Blood online at HBO GO® http://itsh.bo/hWfz80. With HBO GO, you can watch every episode of every season of True Blood on your iPad® (http://itsh.bo/hbogoapple), iPhone® (http://itsh.bo/hbogoapple) or [...]

    April 8, 2012Books, Cinema, Video GalleryNo comments
  20. Surinamese national held at Grantley Adams Int’l Airport, en route to Antwerp, held with three kilos of Cocaine #drugs #narcotics #barbados #customs #police #crime

    Cyenta Jozefzoon, (female) 28 years, a Surinamese national residing in Belgium national was arrested and charged for the following offences whilst at the G.A.I.A on April 2, 2012. Possession a controlled drug – Cocaine. Trafficking. Possession with intent to supply. Importation. FACTS About 10:05 am, Jozefzoon arrived by air in transit to Belgium. Her luggage [...]

    April 3, 2012Crime, TravelNo comments
  21. Waiting Sucks: True Blood, Season 5 – Tara is in a bloody Mess? Is it fangs for the memory? #vampires #trueblood #hbola #southernvampire #charlaineharris #rutinawesley

    Rutina Wesley will be back for (True Blood’s) season 5. The capacity of Tara’s involvement this season has yet to be determined. Season 4 left us all wondering what would become of her. During her September interview with Tvline.com Rutina shares that even she doesn’t know what will happen to Tara. TVLINE | When did [...]

    April 2, 2012Books, ReviewNo comments
  22. French Ministry to Bring Haitian Delegates to Paris #ayiti #earthquake #disaster #haiti #diplomat #envoy

    Following a series of meetings between Haiti’s Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul and Jean Dussourd, Prefet Referent on Haiti to the French Ministry of the Interior, Mr. Dussourd will be organizing visits to France by Haitian delegations as a way to increase collaboration and information exchange. “The proposal to bring Haitian delegates to France [...]

    April 2, 2012Political, TravelNo comments
  23. Caribbean’s Private Sector urged to get more Proactive – EU Delegation Head says Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) waits on no one #caribbeanexport #europeanunion #barbados #caribbean #business #privatesector #trade

    Three and a half years after the signing of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) the regional private sector has been urged to get on board, instead of passively standing on the sidelines. The admonition has come from Head of the European Union Delegation to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Ambassador Valeriano Diaz, who says [...]

    March 29, 2012Business, FeaturedNo comments
  24. French Version of “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” meets “The Bucket List” – The Intouchables #quadriplegic #french #paris #caretaker #paragliding

    A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

    March 26, 2012Cinema, Controversy, Health, Video GalleryNo comments
  25. SPORT RELIEF CELEBRATIONS IN THE OLYMPIC YEAR AT THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION #olympics #sports #london2012 #barbados #olympiad #charity

    Along with millions of people in the UK, Sport Relief was observed Sunday 25 March at the British High Commissioner’s residence of Ben Mar. Members of the British community and colleagues from other diplomatic missions in Barbados ran a Mile (four laps around the Garden, youngsters kept running, LOL), there were other sporting events such as [...]

    March 26, 2012OlympicsNo comments