Today Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
When it was announced that Kamau Brathwaite won the 16th edition of the Frank Collymore Literary Endowments, my first thought was if this is a programme to encourage upcoming talent for Barbadian Lite…
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AirBourne • January 21st, 2014 • 1 comment 
( Books, Review )
By María Cristina Caballero Special to the Harvard News Office Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked aroun…
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Bajan Reporter • January 19th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Education, Review )
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently reported that child marriage and the rates of young girls becoming pregnant at tender ages have increased in the Caribbean over the last few years. …
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DevilsAdvocate • January 12th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
Barbados’s recent economic performance has been deemed as commendable given the unprecedented recession in the markets for our tourism and traded services. {EDITOR’s NOTE: Barbados is look…
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Bajan Reporter • January 10th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Business, Review )
Sinckler and the DLP just do not know! Do you think if they did, the deficit would keep increasing or they would be borrowing loans to payback loans they already borrowed? You do not call a media conf…
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AirBourne • January 9th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
In recent years, I have basically centered on the research of historical and cultural relations between Haiti and its neighbors. First, on the rich cultural trans-Caribbean exchange through its border…
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DevilsAdvocate • January 9th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Books, Review )
“There is something bigger than fact; the underlying spirit – all it stands for; the mood, the vastness, the wildness.” (Emily Carr, Canadian artist and icon [1871 – 1945]) …
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DevilsAdvocate • January 9th, 2014 • 1 comment ( Review, Sculpture )
All during 2013, the country was force to conclude that Donville Inniss might have been assigned a role by Cabinet and the DLP – as “Mascot and political bully” and given free-reign …
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DevilsAdvocate • January 4th, 2014 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
My fellow Citizens, Residents and Friends, I greet you at the dawn of this New Year and I do so trusting that you have a new perspective on what is possible during this year of our Lord 2014, recogniz…
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Bajan Reporter • January 3rd, 2014 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
This year proved significant for Barbados in some positive ways and if paid the correct attention, can be a Way Fwd from the current fiscal morass we’re enduring… Culture in the form of Th…
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AirBourne • December 29th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Cinema, Review )
2013 was not a good year for any of the 14 independent member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) – not even for three of the four commodity-exporting nations Belize, Guyana and Suriname…
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DevilsAdvocate • December 29th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
As we celebrate the birth of the Christ child, we at BARP extend to our many members and friends in Barbados and the Diaspora and to our regional colleagues, the wish for a most blessed Christmas and …
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Bajan Reporter • December 25th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Health, Review )
Fellow Barbadians at home and overseas. It gives me great pleasure to address you at this time of the year as we are preparing to celebrate the birth of the infant Jesus who was born on Christmas Day …
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Bajan Reporter • December 25th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
I have come this morning to alert Barbadians that we are in a crisis and that we cannot keep burying our heads in the sand. Barbadians have been allowed to engage in a debate this week that would sugg…
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DevilsAdvocate • December 22nd, 2013 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
Caribbean literature will be in the local spotlight when poet and critic Margaret D. Gill launches, Rich Man in His Castle, Poor Ones Take the Street: Integrating the ‘Canonical’ Text &…
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Bajan Reporter • December 15th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Books, Review )
My Fellow Citizens and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis, good evening. It is with a great sense of melancholy that I am compelled to address you tonight. I do so in my official capacity as Leader of H…
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Bajan Reporter • December 11th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
Nelson Mandela, a revered world statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of its dark days of apartheid, has died, President Jacob Zuma announced. He was 95, according …
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DevilsAdvocate • December 5th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
Our good buds over at Spill.com hooked us up with their latest review of ‘Frozen‘!
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Bajan Reporter • December 3rd, 2013 • 0 comments ( Cartoons, Review, Video Gallery )
You can excuse the DLP if it did not care to read the ‘National Strategic Plan 2005-2025.’ But Goal #6 of that document speaks, in part, to: “Branding Barbados Globally.” When …
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DevilsAdvocate • November 17th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
In my view, there is no doubt that far better can be done to ensure Barbados is under better administration – in fact, I would go so far as to say that when the late Sir Richie Haynes created th…
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AirBourne • November 17th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
Having already subjected those 28,000 or so, who are employed legitimately in Public Service of Barbados, to increased VAT; Excise Tax on petroleum products; increased water rates and light bills, as …
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DevilsAdvocate • November 16th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Political, Review )
Well, I finally surrendered my Bold 9900 and went for a Q5 – my friends who stayed with Blackberry warned me; I may have wished to give away my Q5 and use the Bold still… Let’s see? …
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AirBourne • November 10th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Review, Technology )
The United States government was shut down for over two weeks straight with no signs of a Republican-Democrat resolution in sight. As republican politicians continued to disagree with The Patient Prot…
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DevilsAdvocate • November 4th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Books, Review )
BlackBerry® announced that BlackBerry® 10 OS version 10.2 will begin rolling out to customers starting this week through their carriers in Europe, Canada, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific,…
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Bajan Reporter • October 29th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Review, Technology )
The internal politics of Venezuela is playing a big part in the sudden deterioration of that country’s relations with its smaller neighbour Guyana after a period of steady improvement. Elements …
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DevilsAdvocate • October 27th, 2013 • 0 comments ( Review, Travel )
