Feeling under the weather

Hello. I have been under the weather for the last few days and as a result, there have been no new posts. Rest assured, plans are afoot to correct this situation immediately, or at least, very soon. In the meantime, if you’re a Barbadian, go and enjoy the cricket while it lasts, because at the end [...]

A shock to the system

Barbados Free Press (BFP) is a most excellent blog that publishes the good, the bad and the ugly, about life in Barbados. Every now and then, they ’shock and awe’ me with their posts about what is really happening in our little island paradise.  I refer to the stuff behind the scenes. The issues and topics that tourists, who probably [...]

Dismal

Dismal. This is my favourite word, for now, for two very important reasons:
1. It, in my humble opinion, best describes the recent performance of the West Indies cricket team during CWC. I am no big cricket fan, nor follower, but I am a West Indian and therefore, I support the W.I. team by default. However, when I watched the West Indies [...]

Pedal-pushing pleasure, or pure pain?

Image from The Nation newspaper website.
On March 26, 2007, the Nation printed an article on a new big ride targeted towards the tourism and leisure market called the ‘pedicab.’ The newspaper described the machine as ‘a pedal operated form of a rickshaw’ and also said that it was ‘a popular mode of transport in major cities like New York, Paris and [...]

On the subject of employee benefits

A friend, of a friend, of a friend, of a friend, of mine, was recently discussing employee benefits in their group. ‘Alice’ (not her real name) was basically of the opinion that Barbadian companies could and should do more by way of providing their employees with a few perks (the topic had started after a few folks in the group watched a [...]

Social vs. Economic Good

I found it. I remember reading some interesting comments made by Clyde Mascoll in an article that appeared in the Daily Nation, on March the 17th. In it, Mr. Mascoll waxed on poetically and dare I say, emotionally, with regards to the Financial And Economic Policy Statement (a.k.a the budget) issued by his boss, the Rt. [...]

Busted by BFP(?)

Okay folks, here’s a quick summary: I made a comment on BFP regarding Allan Fields and his comments regarding the switch over to a new method of accounting by the Barbados Government. After which, I then setup this blog deciding to post my own thoughts and opinions and requested a link from BFP. Big mistake [...]

Paralell Worlds

I lay no claim to being a financial or accounting genius, or anything of the sort. I work in a different field. However, I am intimately familiar with the concept of running a paralell system until such time when it is ‘all clear’ to cut over to a new one.
How then can running a paralell [...]