Category: Crime

Hoe led down Garden Path: Canadian Reviewers prune Clarke’s Book-Turned-Play

For all of the fanfare and hullabaloo – Austin “Tom” Clarke’s “Polished Hoe” hit a rock by way of Canadian Reviewers… This is some of what Canoe had to say &#…

by AirBourne • February 24th, 2007 • 1 comment ( Crime, Entertainment, Featured, Review )

The Scarlet Avenger: A pulp-serial revival? (beware, near spoilers)

While I was too young to have seen serials like “The Perils Of Pauline” (although CBC when it was Channel 3, used to show them every Saturday morning not so long ago – at least for m…

by AirBourne • February 17th, 2007 • 1 comment ( Cinema, Crime, Entertainment, Featured )

Follow-Up: Polished Hoe – Bajan ads on Canadian TV

She has played Storm‘s voice in the animated X-Men, been a judge as well as a legal secretary on TV, played a jealous stifling mother in Honey with Jessica Alba… Now she gets to return to …

by AirBourne • February 17th, 2007 • 0 comments ( Cinema, Crime, Entertainment, Featured )

Follow-Up: Local Gaol is Hot Topic, Brit Banned?

You’ll recall shortly before Valentine’s, I spoke of Terry Donaldson – the man brave enough to say what happened when Glendairy was charred almost to the ground – well? Accordi…

by AirBourne • February 17th, 2007 • 0 comments ( Controversy, Crime, Editorial, Featured, Oddity )

Ex-Convict: Hell In Barbados, no interest expressed by pending inquiry

“A memoir of a man serving time in prison in Barbados and his mission to reveal human rights violations to the world.” Heat Magazine, the local weekly that stirs up almost as much muck as …

by AirBourne • February 12th, 2007 • 0 comments ( Controversy, Crime, Featured, News )

Barbados in top 20 of a global Jail List

For the last few days, I haven’t been able to move away from crime, this time it’s to do with an overseas survey… The International Centre for Prisons Studies at King’s College…

by AirBourne • February 2nd, 2007 • 0 comments ( Controversy, Crime, Featured, News )

Broadmoor & Lancashire: Two models for Barbados not to follow!

Well, I had a good rant the other day about the death penalty in Lancashire, then when I was driving to home from work yesterday I heard the Market Vendor on Starcom Network and it was like insult to …

by AirBourne • February 1st, 2007 • 0 comments ( Controversy, Crime, Featured, News )

Lancashire has NIMBY syndrome: Shows need for revival of death penalty

This deportee crap is reaching new heights of ridiculousness, over in England there is a situation where a Bajan expat murdered his own child! Now, they want to send him back here, why should Barbados…