A group of Barbadians have decided to come together and sponsor an unprecedented 4-day long sports festival on Pakuri Arawak Territory in Guyana next month – featuring such events as Archery, Cricket, Canoe-racing and Football – for both males and females in the tribe. It seems the concept is the brainchild of Damon Corrie – […]

THE KITE FLYER is set for DVD launch on the29TH JUNE at Chubbies video – Sheraton Centre.DVDs will be availableat all Chubbies Video Stores from5pm and Saturday at 3pm.Cast will be on hand for the action!Disks aval. at only $20.00 ea.

Earlier this week we told you we’d be examining three styles of art, three different personalities and three ways to tell a story ? this was what met fans recently at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination. The occasion was to give the man on the street an insiders? view as to what makes […]

One of the main guests at the recent opening of the new Savvy?s Restaurant at Mount Cinnamon was Grenada’s Public Works Minister Brenda Hood (she’s also ex-Tourism Minister) who said the debut of Savvy and the completion of Mt. Cinnamon shows that Peter de Savary was keeping his commitment to Grenada. She also described Savvy?s […]

“Using banana, cotton and sugar-cane bagasse fibres to create artwork that reflects my environment has ‘intriguing possibilities‘.” Christobel? Yes, but no! She definitely warms up to you better when you call her Chris, Ms Ishmael is one of a trio doing a simultaneous exhibition at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination – Sight Clash […]

American hip hop star Big Boi, one half of the popular group Outkast, delivered a spirited and enthusiastic performance before thousands of music lovers at the recent conclusion of the 11th Edition of the St. Kitts Music Festival. High energy acts and top quality music were a constant throughout the June 21 to 23 summer […]

On July 1, 2007, several CARICOM Heads of Government will attend the annual CARICOM 10K Road Race; this year, to be hosted in Barbados, under the theme: The Health of the Region is the Wealth of the Region. The race will start and end at the Bay Street Esplanade, opposite the Office of the Prime […]

In the wake of Rihanna, many Bajans are trying to step up and be counted as the next Caribbean hit from here – some are worthy like Fitzroy, but sadly there are others who should have not wasted their airfare and the Worderer is one of them! I take it his title is a mix […]

Psst! Hey moms and dads, if the brats … uh … kids get to be too much for your frazzled nerves? Then the Tourism Authority is giving a slim thread of hope – In this, its first year, the camp will be held during the school summer holidays enabling children visiting the island with their […]

What a way to spend a Saturday at home if one chose to… Sounds of construction blaring through your rafters! While my work-load was hectic this week I could have updated the News-Blog, yet I nevertheless left the Strathclyde article at top story for a while so all of the Media could look at it! […]

Those of you who track this News-Blog may be aware I have a platoon of cats, they’ve chased away bats, roaches and millipedes but can never catch Dr Boobies, Kingfishers or Wild Macaws who are usually too smart for that type of demise… Kingfishers look a lot like the mascot of the Toronto Blue Jays, […]

BARBADOS? culinary team left the island June 16th rearing to go for gold in this year?s Taste of the Caribbean Competition which takes place in Miami next week. Led by Sandy Lane?s John Hazzard, the team comprises Sandridge?s Creig Greenidge, Coral Reef Club?s Mitchell Husbands, Hilton?s Hugh Prince and Sandy Lane?s Adrian Bynoe. Also travelling […]

Just read a very disturbing e-mail from a former colleague of mine, it originated from a Government worker with the arts who got it from a lady who does not beat around the mulberry bush when it comes to speaking her mind! It was well circulated throughout CBC and I imagine even further – I […]

Anybody is familiar with Cecil McIntosh? It seems in Canada he’s venerated as a guru who can chill the most uptight of A-type personalities… Operating from Mississauga, he wants 50 neurotics …. I mean 50 ppl in need of learning how to swallow a chill pill not just for the tropics but anywhere – ?The […]

Always out of his own pocket, Adrian Loveridge has been forced to take a powder for this year’s edition of “Re-Discover The Caribbean” exhibition held at Sherbourne Centre, the situation between Liat, Caribbean Airlines, American Eagle and the Guyana/TT terror accusation have just slam-dunked the poor show before it even tried for a three-point shot, […]

Anthony Gunn is a resourceful dude, he has contributed on the travesty that was CWC: Clearly Wasted Cricket, done some yachting and now back at his fave rant…. Telecommunications! But it seems there is a serious point to his diatribe – Is C&W planning to cut jobs by 1/2 while paying out over EC $110 […]

Over the years, speculation has soared the cosmic winds between Hollywood stars as to if any incarnation of James Bond would – GASP – be black? P-Diddy or Puff Daddy of all ppl wants to lay claim to being the first black Bond, but respect is due elsewhere – as in the new Casino Royale, […]

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,Make it last forever friendship never ends,If you wanna be my lover,you have got to give, Taking is too easy, but that’s the way it is.What do you think about that now you know how I feel,Say you can handle my love are you […]

SIGHT CLASH 2007? An Exhibition of Work by GRAHAM GILL & DUSTIN HAREWOOD & CHRIS ISHMAEL June 15 ? 30, 2007 Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination ? Art Gallery UWI, Cave Hill Campus Monday to Friday – 10:00am to 6:00pm Opening Reception (by Invitation) on Friday, June 15, 2007 at 7:00 ? 10:00pm Artists […]

The Caribbean will get a sample of the extraordinary talent of locals when a mini-feature on the 2007 St. Kitts Music Festival airs on Hype TV. This was revealed on Tuesday?s edition of SKNIS Perspectives by Corporate Communications Manager of the St. Kitts Tourism Authority Ms. Unoma Allen who said that this part of the […]

Ryan Hinds continues to shine in British county cricket, the Rochdale Observer gives a glowing account of his centuries – It was runs for fun as Rochdale chased down Royton?s 249 to win by five wickets with just under four overs to spare. And once again it was the Barbadian who led the way, deservedly […]

I’d invite you back to my place It’s only mine because it holds my suitcase It looks home to me alright But it’s a hundred miles from yesterday night Must I be the man in a suitcase Is it me, the man with the stranger’s face Must I be the man in a suitcase Is […]

Digicel renewed its partnership with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) to remain sponsors of the Digicel Caribbean Cup for the next four years covering the upcoming 2008-09 and 2010-11 tournaments. The renewed investment was welcomed by CFU and CONCACAF President Jack Warner at a press conference in New York today ahead of the kick off […]

Let’s hear from David in his own words, shall we? Friday JUNE 22 brings me back full-tilt, full band to THE KNITTING FACTORY as part of the GLOBAL GROOVE MUSIC FESTIVAL. It will be a wide ranging night of music from world music to rock. Get in where you fit in, people!! DATE: FRIDAY JUNE […]

Journalists from some of the UK’s top newspapers and magazines have just ended a three day trip to Grenada complements Peter de Savary‘s Port Louis Grenada and Mount Cinnamon Grenada. While in Grenada the journalists toured some of Grenada’s best known attractions including the Grand Etang Rain forest; the River Antoine and Belmont Estates; the […]