About two weeks ago we reported on a showdown between Jamaica And Guyana where Jamaica was looking a the possibilty of importing rice from the US because Guyana was having difficulities meet their quota under an agreement between the two.
Jamaica’s Minister of Industry, Commerce and Investment, Karl Samuda response back then was,
“We will not place consumers [...]
Did I heard on the CBC NEWS TV 8 last night that the Prime Minister at a forum held recently at Sherbourne Centre said that Barbados was not for sale to the highest bidder?.
That brings me to an interesting email I received from Bajan Reporter. It seems that Ian is taking some French lessons and wants to [...]
On Thursday 29th 2007 Barbados experience a 5.0 earthquake that was felt as far as Peurto Rico in the North to Venezuela in the South. For some it was a frightening experience. A wake up call. One house in St.George was extensively damage at the base. For days Barbadians traded stories on What, Where, When, Why and How. Experts and ordinary [...]
The Crop Over season is here. Officially it started on Friday night in the NCF [National Cultural Foundation] car part with the first of 11 calvacades design to get patrons into the festive mood early and to introduce especially any up and coming young singers.
WHAT!!!. Not a squeak of controversy this year!!!.
Maybe it had to [...]
Dual Citizenship: the status of an individual who is a citizen of two or more nations.
Anyone following Caribbean politics would of known by now of Danville Walker resignation as head of Jamaica director of elections over the matter of his US citizenship. He held that position for 11 years. Whether he knew it or not members [...]
Cuban authorities have refused to give a travel visa to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez so she can receive one of Spain’s top journalism awards in Madrid on Wednesday, said Spanish newspaper El Pais which hands out the awards annually.
Last month the newspaper announced it has awarded 32-year-old [...]
This report from chinaview.cn
David Thompson, prime minister of Barbados in central America, arrived in Beijing on Monday, kicking off a four-day official visit to China as a guest of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
During his stay in Beijing, Thompson will meet Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s [...]
As we took a look around the blogsphere we came across two interesting blogs on the issue of food crisis here in the Caribbean.
But first we have to ask a few questions. Is telling your citizens that there is no food crisis a way to avoid panic amongst the population [...]
Nelson Mandela still needs special permission to visit the States all because the Nobel Peace Prize Winner is blacklisted on US terrorist watch lists.
18 years onwards since his release from prison, commom sense finally prevail when at a Senate hearing Tuesday 9th April, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “urged lawmakers…………..to make sure the legislation was passed” to remove [...]
Saudi Arabia’s most popular blogger was released Saturday after serving four months in prison without charge.
The blogger, Fouad al-Farhan, 33, was detained Dec. 10 after authorities warned him about his online support of an activist group. At the time of his arrest, the Interior Ministry said only that his violations were not related to [...]
With 14m stolen and lost travel documents in its database, Interpol will work with Chinese authories to implement a system for conducting checks at Beijing’s airport and other major border entries to prevent dangerous elements from entering China.
Head of Interpol Ronald Noble has warned that there is a “real possibility that the Beijing Olympics will [...]
It is interesting to see how quickly the opposition have embrace the idea of the renaming of Sherbourne Centre even suggesting that the Prime Minister’s official residence be removed to accommodate ” a proper hotel’ according to MP Ronald Toppin in the Nation newspaper.
Ilaro Court which the BLP party have a love affair [...]
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 [...]
Last week we posted an article on a Chinese arms ship destined to Zimbabwe loaded with 77 tonnes of ammunition which included AK47’s and grenades. The ship was subsequently bar by a judge from unloading the weapons at the South African port of Durban to cross the country to landlocked Zimbabwe. The ship went [...]
