The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Its beaches aren't the greatest in the Caribbean and it has no rainforest or virgin coral reef. So what's the draw in Barbados?
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
RICHARD BRANSON IS known to fly his chopper from Necker, his private island, to the best restaurant on the British Virgin Islands, just for lunch. JP McManus takes his private jet to reach Barbados, while P Diddy and Roman Abramovich each have mega-yachts moored offshore and looming on the horizon of St Tropez, sunlight glinting menacingly from the on-board radar, writes
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | yesterday
Having lately discussed a new law enforcement initiative on early education and crime prevention and the relationship between crime rates and the ratio of security spending vs. education in different countries, I was interested to see this note from the London Telegraph about Barbados, which reportedly enjoys the lowest crime rate of all the Caribbean islands. The story begins with the typical tough...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Barbados has weathered the global financial turmoil well so far, but noted that a deteriorating external environment is posing significant challenges to the new Democratic Labour Party (DLP) government. And it says how wage negotiations are handled will make a difference to how the country overcomes those challenges.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barbados Underground says that Barack Obama “delivered a high impact speech” at the Democratic National Convention, while Bajan Global Report refers to a story that claims Barbados' Prime Minister “is…the only high ranking Caribbean official invited to witness the historic first embrace of an African-American as Presidential candidate for a leading political party.”
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Cable and Wireless (C&W) Barbados has recorded a 14 per cent net profit, that translates into a US$91.7 million after-tax profit, for the fiscal year ending March 2008.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The Bajan Reporter is all over the story of telecommunications giant Digicel taking Allen Stanford to court “in order to protect its sole and exclusive rights as primary sponsor of West Indies cricket”. The West Indies Cricket Board insists “that the team that will play England on 1 November represents Stanford, and Stanford alone.”
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The following three statements from Iowa Republican women were distributed by Arizona Sen. John McCain's campaign in conjunction with the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Mary Kramer, former ambassador to Barbados and the eastern Caribbean and former president of the Iowa Senate: "Governor Palin has always [...]
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sagicor Financial Corporation, strengthened by its Jamaican subsidiaries, has recorded a solid half-year performance in which its net profit climbed 25 per cent at the end of June 2008.For the six month period, the Barbados-based insurance conglomerate, garnered net income...
Gone to Plaid: The Blog (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
We got a great deal on our upcoming Barbados trip, which starts in 11 days. However, I'm now wondering if I took into consideration the price of worrying about the actual GETTING THERE. So here we are, closely watching the tropics. We've got Gustav threatening the Gulf Coast, which doesn't affect our trip (because it's all about me, you know) - but makes the oil speculators go nutso. And you know the...
Website Review Site (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
www.movetojohnsisland.com is the perfect site for people seeking information about Johns Island Real Estates. Johns Island is a sea island and a very beautiful one to spend time in. Johns Island originally belonged to Lord John Colleton of Barbados. Johns Island real estate shows a rich growth of agriculture. Farmering and Lumbering are the two [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Alison Hinds is a smiling, trumpeting voice of female empowerment in soca, the modernized calypso music of carnival in Trinidad, Barbados and, this weekend, New York.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Bajan Global Report reports on the Prime Minister's trip to Cuba to attend the 39th General Assembly of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, an organization which supports and promotes high quality work of regional radio and TV entities - but Barbados Free Press calls it “irony defined”: “We are disappointed that Prime Minister Thompson will be [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Relaxing in Barbados
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
The Government of Barbados will receive a US$5 million (BDS$10m) loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to modernise its statistical services, the Washington-based bank announced on the weekend.Barbados will match the loan with US$1.25...
