Gun attack in Rockley – Important Security Notice to ALL Barbadian Residents

This was shock to me this morning when I found the following waiting calmly in the Inbox, it came from one of my regular contributors in another area altogether, so this was very unusual! I am even curious why this did not make the mainstream news, ah well – here goes…
The purpose of this letter [...]

Bridgetown Film Festival joins forces with Pan African Commission to establish Caribbean Identity in regional films

There are 55 entries for this year’s Bridgetown Film Festival (BFF), of which 15 are Barbadian. Kerri Birch, co-ordinator of the Festival, she says other competitors hail from Dominica, Haiti, Antigua, Suriname, US Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Jamaica.
The festival runs from June 10th to the 14th, with a proposed seminar from Yao Ramesar – the [...]

Monster or Monstrous? Do you need to lash to be nasty? If you deny it does that change your reputation? Only Ruth Padel and Chris Brown know for sure!

On the Free Dictionary, monster is sited as originating from an old Indo-European word meaning to warn. Chris Brown has just released a video where he says he’s not a monster, so why did it take so long for him to speak out? He sought a pastor’s counselling, right? His monsters have been exorcised, n’est-ce [...]

Bajan In Total Control of Herself – Livvi Franc joins the Meredith Brooks club: B. * T.C.H. [PG-13: Language]

Do you remember in 1997 when Meredith Brooks had an unexpected hit by cursing? Nobody would say the name of the song even as it climbed all the way to #2 in USA, #6 in Britain and a hit all over Europe.

Yet the song, BITCH – a catchy examination of all the facets of being [...]

SURINAMESE EMILIO LIMON INSPIRED BY DIGICEL KICK START CLINICS – Believes that U16 level creates more opportunities for players

Emilio Limon has become a household name, not only in his native Suriname, but across the Caribbean since taking part in the inaugural Digicel Kick Start Clinics. Limon was one of eight talented young footballers selected by John Barnes to spend one week training at Sunderland AFC in 2008, and since then, has seen his [...]

www.64ForSuu.org: Global Campaign To Free Aung San Suu Kyi

A new website calling for the release of Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and all of Burma’s political prisoners, launched on Wedndesday 27 May with the backing of major celebrities and a coalition of NGOs and trade unions. The website will become the global hub of the international campaign to release Aung San [...]

THE WAORANI – Fierce defenders of the Ecuadorian Amazon: #6 in a series from Activist Damon Gerard Corrie

I first met Manuella Omari Ima Omene of the much feared Waorani Tribal Nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon in 2008, we were together for what was the first year of the training course sponsored by Tribal Link and Project Access (Global Capacity Building for Indigenous Peoples), a year later we are together again for the [...]

New German Honarary Consul Begins Duties for St. Kitts and Nevis

Her Excellency Mrs. Denise Parris-Mertins has been sworn in as the new German Honorary Consul to St. Kitts and Nevis over the weekend. The German Ambassador His Excellency Dr. Ernst Martens, installed Her Excellency Parris-Mertins at a Cocktail Ceremony at the Royal St. Christopher Golf Club.
Before carrying out his installation duties, His Excellency Dr. [...]

Lancaster Great House Reminder of Radigois avec Alliance Francaise & Sculpture Workshop

L’Alliance Francaise’s Garden Party remains on for this Sunday afternoon, May 31st from 3 – 6 p.m.
There will be drinks, live music and live sculpting with Jerome Radigois.
Come and see Jerome at work. Enjoy his sculptures in the Garden for the last time and take a final look at Lancaster’s exhibition of Barbadian Furniture 1680 [...]

Japanese Consultant examines Nevisian Cotton Industry – Proposes assistance

The cotton industry on Nevis caught the eye of a Japanese fund, designed to provide grant assistance to human security projects.
Consultant for the Embassy of Japan based in Trinidad and Tobago for Japan’s Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Project Mr. Atsushi Miura, passed through Nevis recently. He told the Department of Information his visit [...]