Archive for ‘June, 2010’

American Folk Singer Joe Jencks Takes Crowd at George Washington House on Musical Journey

American Folk Singer Joe Jencks Takes Crowd at George Washington House on Musical Journey

Folk singer Joe Jencks shared a musical experience of pure Americana last Sunday at the George Washington House.
On the eve of the United States’ July 4th Independence Day celebrations, Jencks gave the appreciative and musically knowledgeable audience an engaging history lesson on his country, using just his guitar and his rich voice.
Over the course of [...]

Pandemonium at opening of 54th Caribbean Amateur Golf Championship: OECS Member breaks away from Opening Ceremony to unleash grouse publicly – Possible sanctions to follow

Pandemonium at opening of 54th Caribbean Amateur Golf Championship: OECS Member breaks away from Opening Ceremony to unleash grouse publicly – Possible sanctions to follow

The Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships held their opening ceremony Tuesday evening at the Almond Beach Hotel, St. Peter. Tourism Minister Richard Sealy was late in arriving and communicated the pageantry should flow without him, Sealy eventually addressed the golfers from nine countries.
Before his subsequent appearance, however, action unfolded that no one had foreseen – it was as [...]

Barbados needs to respect Entrepreneurs who try: Marine pilot turned Wall Street expert advises Cave Hill’s School of Business

Barbados needs to respect Entrepreneurs who try: Marine pilot turned Wall Street expert advises Cave Hill’s School of Business

Barbadians are too quick to judge entrepreneurs whose businesses don’t succeed immediately, this bracing assessment from Chuck Mills III a former Marine One Pilot now Capital Management expert who is in Barbados for his second address to participants at the University of the West Indies thanks to the US Embassy for Barbados & the Eastern Caribbean.
During his [...]

Caribbean’s premier amateur golfing event is at Royal Westmoreland this week: Barbados hosting Caribbean golf, by Hallam Hope

Caribbean’s premier amateur golfing event is at Royal Westmoreland this week: Barbados hosting Caribbean golf, by Hallam Hope

The cream of amateur golf in the region will be showcased at Royal Westmoreland between Wednesday and Saturday with competition in the Hoerman Cup for men, the women’s championship and Mid-Amateurs, Seniors and Super Seniors for men.
Puerto Rico has been the dominant nation in recent years in the Hoerman Cup and much attention will be [...]

Olympus Theatres Movie Event for Differently Abled Children: Let’s Show Them Love Public Awareness Campaign

Olympus Theatres Movie Event for Differently Abled Children: Let’s Show Them Love Public Awareness Campaign

The Olympus Theatres Inc. is giving back to children with disabilities, through a series of movie events this summer.
They have joined hands with Variety – the Children’s Charity and the Let’s Show Them Love Public Awareness Campaign for Children with Disabilities to offer a free pre-summer break movie event.
The movie events will continue until August [...]

Windies batting collapse has them staring at defeat – Do they need glasses? Digicel Test Cricket Report

Windies batting collapse has them staring at defeat – Do they need glasses? Digicel Test Cricket Report

South Africa are on the home strait to victory in the Third Digicel Test. The West Indian fortress that was Kensington Oval had long been breached; these days visiting teams look forward to playing Test matches at the venue with anticipation, rather than apprehension.
South Africa are the latest international team to have enjoyed the [...]

CCCU Convention opens, Credit Union Umbrella Body’s 1st Female Leader addresses participants – Call made for continued promotion of organization: By Rawle Nelson

CCCU Convention opens, Credit Union Umbrella Body’s 1st Female Leader addresses participants – Call made for continued promotion of organization: By Rawle Nelson

Eighteen countries representing some seventeen affiliates area attending the 53rd Annual International Convention and 39th Annual General Meeting of the Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions.
Delegates from affiliates, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Netherland Antilles, St Kitts and Nevis, , St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, [...]

Sea turtle named Ginger returns to Nevis bearing three-year old tracking device

Sea turtle named Ginger returns to Nevis bearing three-year old tracking device

Sea turtle conservationists on Nevis announced recently that they had successfully retrieved a satellite tracking device from a female sea turtle named Ginger. She had been named and tagged three years earlier in programme which involved the Four Seasons Resort, Nevis, the Caribbean Conservation Association and the Nevis Turtle Group.
President of the Group Mr. Lemuel [...]

Anime Kon 2010: Enter The Arena – Star Trek Next Generation’s LeVar Burton more feisty than a Klingon (PG 13: Language, 1/2)

Anime Kon 2010: Enter The Arena – Star Trek Next Generation’s LeVar Burton more feisty than a Klingon (PG 13: Language, 1/2)

If you’re at work and you decide to listen to the audio clips, be sure to keep the volume low or get some headphones as the vernacular may disturb some and that don’t take much here in Barbados, even if privately we say worse… One other point – the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Cultural Centre must donate that [...]

West Indies team visit the Concorde Centre: Greeting team near phone booths, accident? Or just coincidence?

West Indies team visit the Concorde Centre: Greeting team near phone booths, accident? Or just coincidence?

The popular proverb is if you are handed a lime to get more and make lemonade – but that wasn’t what the greeters were serving outside the Concorde Experience while waiting for cricket teams of the Proteas and Windies, it was fruit punch and speaking of ‘punch,’ – the phone booths were knocked out by [...]

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