Heavy rain and wrecked roads hampered efforts to reach areas hardest-hit by China’s worst earthquake in three decades today, as the death toll rose to nearly 10,000.
State media reports indicated that the number of dead was likely to soar, with Xinhua news agency saying 10,000 people remained buried in the Mianzhu area of Sichuan province [...]
The response to this natural disaster was a welcome change compared to the slowness of the Myanmar [Burma] government in responding to the aftermath of the destruction caused by the cyclone in their country. According to Christian Broadcasting Network
India’s meteorological department said Wednesday [7th May] that it had warned Myanmar of the storm two days [...]
Thursday afternoon 29th November 2007 was just like any typical day in Bim. Near cloudless sunny skies. Vibrant green colour captivating ones eyes from nature’s tree tops. A picture perfect day. The kind of day that will send someone to the beach.
The next day was Independence Day and business had slow to a crawl since Bajans were [...]
Less than three months before the Chinese capital is expected to be full of hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors for the Summer Olympics in August, China has been hit with a massive earthquake with injuries and deaths including children, workers and possible hospital patients and staff. Rain was also predicted for the disaster area.
More than [...]
Barbadian entrepreneur Handel Callender is in the right place at the right time. With raising energy prices worldwide having a negative impact locally, the Barbadian who operates a biodiesel company, Native Sun NRG, have seen his vision to expand the one man operation taken off. Native Sun NRG is being bought over by a US [...]
The same environmentalists that jumped on the biofuel bandwagon [because of it environmentally cleanliness to reduce carbon emissions as oppose to oil/gas which increases carbon emissions in the atmosphere], thereby reducing the land available for crop production to feed the world’s 6 billion plus people on planet Earth are utterly horrified that Europe [...]
Global temperatures have not risen in 10 years. So what is the big halabaloo about global warming?
Further reading - news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm
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 [...]
Whilst this writer congrats the Barbados Government on the need to further develop the solar energy needs of Barbadians, thereby reducing the country’s electrical bill, one wonders how long can they continue to subsidy electricity.
This initiative started by the Opposition BLP party and carry on by the present DLP government cannot continue indefinitely. Not forgetting [...]
