08/08/08 – Let The Games [2008 Beijing Olympic Games] Begin

       
In a few hours time, Barbadians like millions around the world will watch the largest sporting event on earth  taking place in China. Host to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Games. Predicting overcast skies come Friday night for the nearly 4 hr opening ceremony  featuring 15,000 performers and 29,000 fireworks but no rain, Chinese officials would well [...]

Douglas Is Youngest Sailor In His Class At Beijing Olympics

  Gregory Douglas, at eighteen years old, is the only sailor representing Barbados at the 2008 Olympic Games. The sailing events are being held in the coastal city of Qindgao, where a magnificent sailing facility has been built for the games.
The sailors are challenged by the difficult conditions in Qingdao. The test events held at [...]

Invisible Skating A Hit With Viewers

A Video of men riding on invisible skateboards has caused a sensation on the internet.

The YouTube video, which has been viewed more than 1.6 million times, shows a group of riders floating on thin air, doing tricks down stairs and up ramps on skateboards which appear to have been digitally removed.

Every trace of the boards [...]

Barbados Records Ecomonic Slowdown

Yes it’s late but it’s still important.
Rising world commodity prices have caused a significant slowdown in the Barbados economy.
Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr Marion Williams, reported last Friday that the 1.4 per cent economic growth recorded by Barbados over the first six months of this year was the lowest growth level recorded [...]