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? [...]

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 & [...]

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, [...]