NOW (and women in general), where are you on the Banks Girl issue?

 
Where, if I may be so bold as to ask, does the NOW (National Organization of Women) and women in general, stand with regards to the whole Banks Girl issue? Are those not scantily clad women in the background partaking of the whole, sordid (and tasty) cholocate affair as well?
Are these group of women not contributing to the whole [...]

Blast from the past: BCCI and Barbados

Anyone remember BCCI? (Bank of Credit and Commerce International). According to Wikipedia, the bank became the focus (in 1991) of the world’s worst financial scandal. It was discovered that the bank was involved in (among other things) money laundering, bribery, support of terrorism, arms trafficking and the sale of nuclear technologies.
So why bother digging up old news? [...]

Chefette at the GAIA

For the folks out there who weren’t aware, Chefette is our version of McDonald’s. That said, Chefette recently announced the opening of its 14th location, situated at the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA).
I’m interested in two things: First, the breakfast menu. I know it’s an airport and I realize that flights are coming and going [...]

ABC + 123 = 0

UPDATED: Okay, I finished the post. Better late than never
I’ve heard it myself over the years and I’ve also repeated it to visitors: Barbados boasts one of the highest rates of literacy (or should that read one of the highest literacy rates?) in the world. Is this still the case, can our island still afford [...]

True or False?

Anyone heard about this? It showed up in my e-mail earlier today and I’m not sure if this really happened. (I removed the sender’s name which appeared at the bottom of the e-mail):
“A disturbing thing happened last Saturday morning to some young people I know that I want to share with you. Hopefully you will pass [...]

An Inconvenient Truth now showing(?) in Barbados

I wasn’t even aware. No mention of it (unless I missed it) in the print media. Nothing major on BFP or BU. I think. I found out while watching the CBC Evening News tonight. Something that I don’t do often. Not because CBC’s coverage of the news is exciting or extremely informative or sensational or [...]

TAKEOVER of Barbados Shipping & Trading by Trinidad giant, Neal & Massy

UPDATED: Replaced the words SOLD OUT with TAKEOVER 
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m just imagining things or just crying wolf, but I think The Nation newspaper got it wrong when they printed “BS&T  Mega Deal” across their front page today.
“Barbados Shipping & Trading (BS&T), the country’s biggest conglomerate, is planning to merge with energy and industrial giant Neal & [...]

Nurses in Barbados

“UNDER SIEGE.” This is the headline that The Nation newspaper splashed across their back page in today’s print edition (don’t bother checking their website, the story isn’t there.) It desribes the disgusting situation that currently exists for nurses in Barbados. Nurses, folks, nurses. The people that look after us, our familes, our relatives and our [...]

Thoughts on cricket, the W.I. team and Brian Lara

I am not a cricket fan. There. I said it and now the whole world knows it. Maybe that’s a good thing right now. Maybe an impartial observer, or better yet, a bystander like me, can take a look in from the outside and offer one or two thoughts on the game, the W.I. team and [...]

Why ‘green,’ not black, white nor polka-dot-pink, should matter when serving customers

Originally found via this BFP post. It seems that the folks over at the Living in Barbados blog are wondering why it is that in some establishments in Barbados, white customers receive far better treatment than their fellow black customers. 
Many of the BFP readers (I really like those BFP readers) offered up several reasons, and also mentioned by name, several Barbadian companies where [...]

‘Slavery and Economy in Barbados,’ by Dr. Karl Hudson

While mousing around the web for information on a future post, I came across a paper on the History section of the Beeb, entitled ‘Slavery and Economy in Barbados,’ by Dr. Karl Watson.
I never knew that:
1. Barbados was England’s first experimental tropical agricultural export colony.
2. Barbados was, back then, thought to be the ‘richest spote of [...]

David A. Comissiong and PEP

In a ’second-hand’ (well said BFP) press release issued by the ‘Peoples Empowerment Party,’ the author and President, Mr. David A Comissiong, after stating that the BLP be held responsible for the Cricket World Cup failure, concludes by playing the race card and states:
“This example of “mis-leadership” is typical of the new “black” bourgeois class that, [...]

No dirt, no love? Or maybe my blog needs some animal porn?

UPDATED: 
Out with the shagging slugs, in with The Bystander! The folks at BFP decided to remove the link to the The Barbados Underground blog and have replaced it with a link to this blog instead. I guess that means that I’m somewhat more interesting or amusing than the shagging slugs. What a relief, I was beginning [...]

Foreign ownership of land in Barbados

Paul Altman, of Altman Real Estate, recently commented: ‘less than 2% of land in foreign hands.’ He made this comment on the popular Barbadian radio programme Brasstacks. What he was referring to was the foreign ownership of land in Barbados. I for one didn’t hear the actual radio programme on Sunday, but I read about his comments in the March [...]