Barbados Cost Of Living January 2010 Now That’s Hot!!!
April 29, 2010 Leave a Comment
News, Views and Happenings Around The Globe
April 29, 2010 Leave a Comment
Xpatulator.com rates itself as “the most comprehensive source of international cost of living rate differences (from 50 types of data sources)………providing free international cost of living overviews and rank information covering 13 cost of living baskets and 282 global locations.” The site, aim at expatriates, also offers “3 premiums contents calculators” for what they would need to earn to compensate for cost of living, hardship, and exchange rate differences.Filed under Barbados, Blogging, Business, News Tagged with cost of living, Economy, Finance, international business companies, investment, offshore financial sector
April 28, 2010 1 Comment
A team from Warwick Medical School in the U.K. has found that people who maintain healthy vitamin D levels are 43 percent less likely to get heart disease or diabetes. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, HEALTH, News Tagged with chronic diseases, Lifestyles, Maturitas, viamin D, Warkick Medical School
April 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
Virgin Atlantic boss Richard Branson says his airline lost $77 million in over six days because of a blanket ban on European flights due to volcanic ash from Iceland. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, Business, News Tagged with airlines, Economy, Environment, Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland, Lifestyles, People, Richard Branson, Tourism, Travel, Virgin Atlantic, volcanoes
April 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
The World Bank says it has launched the Haiti Reconstruction Fund to help rebuild the quake-ravaged country. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, Business, News Tagged with Caribbean, earthquake, Economy, Environment, Government, Haiti, Haiti Reconstruction Fund, Humanitarian, World Bank
April 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
A resolute Greek finance minister warned investors Sunday that they would “lose their shirts” betting on the country’s economic collapse, as he insisted a massive bailout would come in time to avoid default. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, Business, News Tagged with Economy, European Union, eurozone, Finance, Greece debt crisis, IMF
April 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
Thousands of doctors and nurses face the sack after the election under devastating cuts being planned by NHS bureaucrats, according to two studies. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, HEALTH, News Tagged with Britain, Economy, Government, Healthcare, NHS, Politics
April 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
The United States Air Force has announced that it will launch a secret space plane that has sparked speculation about the militarization of space. Read more of this postFiled under America, Barbados, News Tagged with Defense/Military, Environment, Government, Outer Space Treaty of 1967, space plane, space Predator drones, X-37B Orbital Test Vechicle (OTV)
April 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
Haunted by the memory of a lost opportunity to kill Osama Bin Laden before he attacked the World Trade Center in New York, US military planners have won President Barack Obama’s support for a new generation of high-speed weapons that are intended to strike anywhere on Earth within an hour. Read more of this postFiled under America, Barbados, News Tagged with Defense/Military, Government, hypersonic guided missels, hypersonic technologies, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, People, Prompt Global Strike (PGS)
April 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install “useless” imaging machines at airports across the country. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, Business, News Tagged with airport scanners, CATSA, Crime & Law, full body scanners, Government, passenger screening, Rafi Sela, Terrorism, Tourism, Travel
April 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
The global financial crisis, it is now clear, was caused not just by the bankers’ colossal mismanagement. No, it was due also to the new financial complexity offering up the opportunity for widespread, systemic fraud. Read more of this postFiled under America, Barbados, Business, New World Order, News Tagged with "Repo 105s", Economy, Finance, fraud, global financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, SEC
April 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, Business, News Tagged with Economy, energy crisis, Finance, International Energy Agency
April 17, 2010 Leave a Comment
Caribbean leaders told U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday that Mexico’s U.S.-backed crackdown on drugs was pushing cartels to step up smuggling through their island nations. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, Business, News Tagged with Caribbean, Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, CARICOM, Crime & Law, David Thomson, DLP Government, Finance, Government, Robert Gates, Terrorism
April 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
The gold price plummeted as news that Goldman Sachs has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with defrauding investors by misstating and omitting crucial facts about a derivative product tied to subprime mortgages sent shockwaves through the markets. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, Business, News Tagged with breaking news, Crime & Law, Finance, fraud, gold reserves, gold stocks, Goldman Sachs, SEC, Trade
April 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
No counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs have officially been found in Barbados, in recent years. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, News Tagged with DLP Government, Donville Inniss, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Novartis, pharmaceuticals, Trade, WHO
April 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
The unprecedented closure of airspace across Britain and large parts of Northern Europe is set to continue into the weekend, after the volcanic eruption in Iceland that sent a massive plume of ash into the atmosphere. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, News, Science & Nature Tagged with Economy, Environment, Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland, Tourism, Travel, volcanoes
April 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
Drug and chemical giant Bayer AG has admitted that there is no way to stop the uncontrolled spread of its genetically modified crops. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, Business, News, Science & Nature Tagged with Bayer, Crime & Law, Economy, Environment, Finance, Food, genetically-modified crops, Trade
April 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
Chinese rescue workers were scratching through rubble with their hands in the search for survivors Thursday after the country’s biggest earthquake in two years killed more than 589 people and left thousands injured in a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, News, Science & Nature Tagged with Dalai Lama, Economy, Environment, Humanitarian, Qinghai China earthquake, Tibet
April 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
Damian Thompson, writing for the Daily Telegraph, says there will be plenty of conspiracy theories floating around cyberspace in response to the death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski and a large number of Polish VIPs in a plane crash last week. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, New World Order, News Tagged with Donald Tusk, Economy, European Union, Government, IMF, Katyn Forest, Lech Kaczynski, People, Poland, politicians, Russia
April 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
Police on Tuesday arrested six men suspected of being involved in an organ trafficking ring in northern Israel. Among the suspects are an IDF reserves brigadier-general and two lawyers. Read more of this postFiled under Barbados, HEALTH, Middle East, News Tagged with Crime & Law, internet, Israel, Lifestyles, organ harvesting, organ trafficking
April 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
WILL NEWMAN, who holds a B.A. in Religion, attended Jewish synagogue, and has relatives involved in Talmudism, Cabala, B’nai Brith and Masonry.
Filed under Barbados, News Tagged with Freemasonry, Judaism, Lifestyles, Religion
Talk Yuh Talk!