The Parakuyo (aka Baraguyu) are a small tribe of pasturalists in Tanzania numbering about 3,000 souls. They live in five provinces of Tanzania, and I am disheartened to report – they are being v…
St Kitts’ Youth Empowerment through Skills (YES) Project has given more than 1,000 young people a second chance to undo past mistakes and learn skills that will position them to lead productive …
Got an e-mail from a reader who’s implying a frightening notion? Facebook…. Over 200,000,000 people have Facebook entries. Facebook claims over 100,000,000 access their accounts every day.…
Chinese Crime Story – Demands of Kidnapper & Chinese Police Negotiations ‘I have 3 demands or I’ll kill the boy!‘ Police Negotiators assess the situation from next door. He…
FOOT PATROL: 20th Century Tortoise Vs. Hare When Bert’s Bar was still Abbeville, and I had yet to have a car or mobile, I was relaxing one Friday night at the establishment when a call came thru…
[NB: Centre’s location was not provided in original release] Construction of the Juvenile Co-Ed Rehabilitation Center of St. Kitts and Nevis is on target, and the facility?s project coordinator …
Carifs (Unified banking network to allow smoother debit-card transactions here) is now working better, but there are still glitches… Some can be overlooked, others are more serious. For instance…
I hope none of my readers supports the New York Post after their disgusting cartoon the other day, I used it too, but not in reference to USA President Barack Obama – I suggested the cartoonR…
BIRTHDAYS & VIDEO-GAMES What a horrible birthday for Rihanna, the Bajan Reporter hopes she pulls through and learns karate – Worse, it seems there are a few idiots out there now taking up fo…
Be careful where you look for love, here’s a word of cation from DR1 – Santo Domingo’s English News Service… A Spanish woman who was killed by her Dominican lover had met him o…
I received an e-mail from a former colleague of mine and I decided to verify it and thanks to ye olde Google, it IS true and more than one site has been carrying it, Andrew M. Manis is associate profe…
NAACP: DUO NIXED? It was no genuine surprise to learn that neither Rihanna nor Chris Brown earned Image Awards from the NAACP over the weekend. Perhaps in a diplomatic move, neither were set forward a…
Police on Nevis say the amount of drugs they have removed from the streets and the number of drug related convections they have had at the Magistrates Court in Charlestown, suggests that they have cre…
Harlan Ellison once had a science fiction tale called “I have no mouth, and I must scream” some 41 years ago – perhaps the title may be equally apt for Barbados’ media fraterni…
The Jamaican entertainer who created the dance moves performed by Usain Bolt after his victories at the 2008 Beijing Olympics was shot and killed in a bar in Kingston. David Alexander Smith, also know…
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Invictus [extract] by William Ernest Henley; 1849-1903 After year…
There have been warnings of motoring crimes in Barbados from H’way 2A to Boscobel and even appearing to a be a legit corporate citizen… But now, the game has changed, if it is indeed happe…
?Saving the life of one animal won?t change the world, but surely it will change for the one you saved!? Please fwd this notice to every animal-lover you know! SHOW YOUR SUPPORT: Please print the post…
Can you imagine using a lawn ornament to subdue a madman? USA Today says that’s what a guy from Sacramento did to stop one of his neighbours who went off – Police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong…
Critical issues relevant to the continued development of St. Kitts and Nevis, and its population, were the subject of a three hour dialogue between Parliamentarian Honourable G. A. Dwyer Astaphan and …
“Intrigue, deception, murder and exotic locales with a noir sensibility and keen attention to setting? another highly entertaining page-turner.” — Publishers Weekly Last year, New Yo…
The Embassy of the United States of America to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean alerts the public to another scam, this one via fax transmission, purporting to come from the Internal Revenue Service…
You may recall in October there was a special film festival at the Errol Barrow Centre of UWI… The one night my hectic schedule allowed me was an excellent opportunity to learn not only what som…
The Royal Barbados Police Force wishes to advise that effective Wednesday, 5th November, 2008 all members of the general public attending the District ?A? Complex, at Station Hill, St. Michael, whethe…
For weeks, Free Press has been looking at how Melamine has killed animals and infants in China and other parts of the world… There were even concerns that ice cream here could have been tainted …