BBC News has reported on its website that Dutch MP Greet Wilders has posted his controversial film “Fitna” on the internet.
Determine to get the film out before the end of the month, Wilders’s film critical of Islam’s holy book, the Koran was posted on the video-sharing UK based website, leak-live. It was originally to be posted on Network Solutions but [...]
Unusually large waves churned by a Caribbean storm system have littered the beaches of Barbados with chunks of broken coral in what could be a sign of damage to reefs across the region, a local scientist has said.
Leo Brewster, director of Barbados’ Coastal Zone Management Unit, who was organising dives later this week to [...]
A United Nations climate expert has pointed to the possibility of a tsunami hitting the Caribbean region.
Although not saying it would necessarily happen, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Peter Koltermann told dozens of regional participants at a special meeting in Panama that the likelihood of such an event was “probable”.
“The situation [...]
An international fugitive being sought for rape has been apprehended after taking a holiday break in Barbados.
According to reports out of Miami, the 54-year-old Amaro Rodrigues was vacationing in the Caribbean island when he was identified by authorities there as a fugitive of France.
They notified the United States Department of State that Mr Rodrigues would [...]
A week from today, next Tuesday, April 1, 2008, the minimum interest rate payable on deposits will be reduced by quarter of a percent, from 4.75% to 4.5% the Central Bank of Barbados said late week”any weakening in the economics of major trading partners will impact negatively on economic activity in Barbados”.
The bank said its [...]
JPMorgan Chase & Company is offering bonuses to the top brokers at Bear Stearns Cos. to get them to stay with the company after it is acquired, JPMorgan said Tuesday. The packages, which would go into effect when JPMorgan’s buyout is completed, are aimed at keeping Bear Stearns’ best-performing brokers from leaving for another investment [...]
