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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (GIS): Later this year, the Barbados government will be setting up a Financial Services Commission “to enhance the supervision and regulation of financial institutions in Barbados”. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon met Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur in Bridgetown on Saturday during an official tour of the Caribbean. McKinnon headed for St Vincent and the Grenadines on Sunday for a three-day visit. read more.. |
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MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (JIS):  Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of the Caricom sub-committee on the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), Owen Arthur, is expressing confidence that the region is on track for implementation of the single economy in 2008. read more.. |
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MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (JIS):  Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, has said that the region must come to a decision regarding arrangements with its traditional economic allies and trading partners, before the full implementation of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy in 2008. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (GIS): Come Wednesday, February 14, the Barbados Ministry of Health will be launching an Online Media Centre. The website has been developed by the Ministry to act as an information portal disseminating vital data on its HIV/AIDS Programme, including its mandate and functions. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  On the eve of the ICC Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean, one of Canada’s leading tennis professional coaches, Barbadian Lionel Eli wants Caribbean governments to invest more in sports tourism. The tennis coach is committed to introducing visitors to Barbados. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Fidelity Wireless has announced plans to offer Internet, phone and IPTV/Video on Demand services over a new state of the art wireless broadband network to the residential and business community in Barbados. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  The Barbados Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development Minister, Senator Lynette Eastmond, held talks this week with Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Pedro Garcia Roque. The two, along with other senior officials from the Ministry, discussed many topical issues. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Negotiations on a bilateral fishing agreement between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago have resumed. After a break of over three years, officials from the two countries met in Port-of-Spain this week for talks aimed at settling the dispute. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: With nine host countries and Dominica to become a single domestic space during the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup, the Barbados Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is beefing up security in its plant quarantine unit. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Barbados and St Kitts-Nevis are getting multi-million dollar help from the European Commission to help them cope with the drop in sugar prices. Barbados will get a BDS$5.8 million dollar injection from the EC as part of the Commission's plan to provide development assistance. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England: Crystal Palace defender Leon Cort has backed Paul Ifill to be a success at Selhurst Park following the Barbadian's £750,000 move from Sheffield United earlier this month. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Martinique ended their appearance in the Digicel Caribbean Cup on a high as they defeated Barbados in the Hasely Crawford stadium in Group Sedley Joseph. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Haiti may have taken the longest route possible to get to the Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals but they were the first team to qualify for the semi finals when they defeated Barbados by one goal to nil in the home of the Soca warriors. read more.. |
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| ST PETERS, Barbados: Almond Resorts, a Caribbean all-inclusive chain of resort hotels, has a very tempting sunshine offer this winter. With bookings of five consecutive night stays or more, Almond Beach Club & Spa, Almond Beach Village and Almond Morgan Bay, are all offering a US$500 credit per person, towards airfare. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The curtain rose at Sunbury Plantation House promptly at 8 pm on Monday night, with American pianist Robert Glasper and his trio providing some stimulating listening to open the 14th annual Barbados Jazz Festival. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Chairman of the Barbados Tourism Authority, Peter Odle, has welcomed Air Jamaica’s new daily non-stop service between New York and Barbados as “100 per cent positive”. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England: Capacity magazine launches its inaugural Capacity Caribbean 2007 congress, taking place on 31 January and 1 February in Barbados, that will provide information on the latest developments in the Caribbean wholesale telecoms market. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): Regional immigration authorities should use the opportunity of Cricket World Cup 2007 to discuss issues that relate to immigration, including the issue that exists between Guyana and Barbados, said Guyana's Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: West Indies all-rounder Ryan Hinds will captain Barbados in the 2007 regional Carib Beer first class series. Hinds, who was reappointed by the Barbados Cricket Association, will also skipper the Bajans in the KFC Cup. read more.. |
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| 'This year could be a disastrous one for the small hotel and accommodation sector in Barbados if bookings do not increase for the period before and after the Cricket World Cup finals.' read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA: Air Jamaica has announced new daily non-stop service between John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York and Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados, starting January 10, 2007. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados football team, currently preparing for the final leg of the 2006 Digicel Caribbean Cup in Trinidad, have been hit with a big blow when it was reported that first-string goalkeeper Alvin Rouse will be unable to train for the next two weeks. read more.. |
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| ST JAMES, Barbados (Reuters): Play was suspended in the final round of the WGC-World Cup in Barbados on Sunday because of driving rain and strong winds. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Eighty percent of the cabins on the cruise ship that will serve as additional accommodation in Barbados for Cricket World Cup have either been sold or pledged to be sold. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: There's some good news and bad news coming out of the tourism sector in Barbados. Minister Noel Lynch says while long-stay visitor arrivals are increasing, the picture in the cruise industry is not so rosy. read more.. |
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts:  St Kitts and Nevis Attorney General, Dennis Merchant has given an assurance that a Commission of Inquiry into the failure of an unusual number of Police Officers to report for duty immediately before 30th September 2006, must not be seen or viewed negatively. read more.. |
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| BWIA was described 'as a key player in developing the (Barbados) tourism industry'. Yet in a Caribbean Broadcast Corporation news item, the latest statement is the loss of 'BWIA will not affect Barbados'. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: A British actor has been charged with raping a 16-year-old girl in Barbados. But Benedict Paul Freeman was allowed to return home to continue his work in front the cameras after providing $100,000 bail. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The final Group G match of the Digicel Caribbean Cup, which was staged at the National Stadium in Bridgetown, Barbados, ended with a 1-1 draw between Barbados and Bermuda. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Hosts Barbados started their Digicel Caribbean Cup second round qualifying matches in Group G with a 2-1 win over Bahamas. In front of an expectant home crowd, Barbados took time to settle. read more.. |
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| Of course a privatised company, Grantley Adams International Airport inc., could not collect taxes, that is a Government prerogative, so the name has to be changed to a 'service fee'. read more.. |
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| This week marks the third anniversary of British Airways generous loan of one of just seven Concordes operated by them to Barbados. Since November 2003 it has sat in a purpose built 'temporary' hanger. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England: Capacity magazine is to launch its inaugural Capacity Caribbean 2007 congress on 31st January and 1st February in Barbados, which will provide information on the latest developments in the Caribbean wholesale telecoms market. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA: The New Year will see Barbados in an island-wide musical ferment when Grammy award-winning artist Anita Baker and a cast of other regional and international artistes gather for the 14th edition of the Barbados Jazz Festival. read more.. |
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| Your reporter here in Barbados, Dawne Bennett, was quick to report "Barbados least corrupt country in the region". That might be easy for her to report. read more.. |
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| If the report carried in the Weekend Nation of Friday November 10, 2006 is correct and the airport departure tax is being increased by over 100 per cent to BDS$55 (US$27.50), it is in my opinion a massive mistake. read more.. |
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| I am looking for the Rev. Peter Haynes, who was the priest in charge at St Philip-the-Less church in Barbados in 1995. We are returning to the island next September and we are trying to locate him. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has shot down the Barbados government’s attempts to hang two convicted murderers. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados has been named the least corrupt country in the Caribbean by Transparency International, which gave Barbados just over seven out of 10, placing it at number 24 on the index. read more.. |
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| ‘Barbados has been billed the largest and most active cruise line home port in the world’. That was the word from Minister of Tourism Noel Lynch, as Barbados prepares to host 18 home-porting cruise ships. read more.. |
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| I am writing from the northeast of the USA and want to let the countrymen of Barbados know that I would not be able to visit their beautiful island if it was not for the “Best of Barbados” special. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Barbados Light and Power Company (BL&P) is searching for the root cause of a power failure that left Barbadians, businesses and schools without electricity for seven hours. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Within a few short weeks the Region will learn the names of the individuals selected as FirstCaribbean Regional Unsung Heroes. An eight-member independent judging panel recently met at FirstCaribbean International Bank’s Regional Head Office in Barbados. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Effective November 1, all applicants for visitor visas (non-immigrant visas, or NIVs), including applicants at the US Embassy in Barbados, will be required to use the Electronic Visa Application Form (EVAF). read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Over fifty senior leaders from FirstCaribbean International Bank recently found out what it’s like to work at the sharp end in FirstCaribbean when they spent the day ‘Trading Places’ with colleagues from other departments across the organisation. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: A team from Scotland Yard is in Barbados as British police continue the hunt for a man wanted for dozens of sexual assaults on mostly elderly British women over the past 15 years. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Outgoing US Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Mary Kramer, has suggested that the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which will require American citizens to have a passport to return home by air, won’t be as disastrous as some are predicting. read more.. |
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| Minister of Tourism Noel Lynch is quoted as stating ‘Barbados will have 14 cruise ships docked in its port, six of which will be permanently berthed as floating hotels, during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007’. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The father and son charged in connection with the beating of a 15-year-old boy, in a case that involved accusations of racism, have been released on bail. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Sunday, October 15 marks the 45th anniversary of the arrival of Peace Corps Volunteers in St Lucia, which was one of the first nations to respond to President Kennedy’s initiative. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: In a bid to save the sensitive environmental lands at Graeme Hall from a water park development, the Friends of Graeme Hall Committee have announced their support for a new National Park at Graeme Hall. read more.. |
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| According to media reports, the Government of Barbados has signed a deal with Carnival Cruise Lines ‘which guarantees that it (Barbados) will earn BDS$156 million (US$78 million) over the next three years’. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The International Federation of PGA Tours on Friday announced that Digicel has been selected as the preferred wireless communications provider for the World Golf Championships read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica: The Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Memory of the World Committee (CRLAC/MOW) is meeting in Barbados 4-6 October 2006, to discuss issues surrounding the enhancement of the Regional MOW Programme. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbadians are now paying less to fill their gas tanks, following a government decision to drop prices in keeping with the fall in price on the international market. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US President George W. Bush has cleared the way for US military aid to Barbados, St Vincent & the Grenadines, and Trinidad & Tobago. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): Jamaica, along with Mexico, booked their places at December's golf World Cup in Barbados after finishing first and second at the Nations Cup qualifying tournament in Aruba on Sunday. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados has been identified as one of the most competitive countries in the world to do business. In a list compiled by the World Economic Forum, the country comes in at number 31 out of 125 countries. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: In the words of its Greek owner, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, easyCruise has decided to reposition to St Maarten this winter, stating, 'We got a better deal from St Maarten overall, especially when the cost of bunkers is taken into account.' read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised Barbados to increase VAT. But the government has rejected that advice, saying that such a move would cause undue hardship for Barbadians. read more.. |
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WILLEMSTAD, Curacao:  Barbados and the Netherlands Antilles have agreed to start negotiations regarding a Double Tax Agreement (DTA) and Mutual Customs Assistance Treaty. The Netherlands Antilles' State Secretary of Finance, Alex Rosaria, was recently in Bridgetown. read more.. |
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| As this week I celebrate 40 years in the travel industry across 67 countries, including eighteen on Barbados, perhaps the single biggest disappointment has been support for the re-DISCOVER the Caribbean initiative. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA: Air Jamaica has announced an increase in service to the Eastern Caribbean nations of St. Lucia and Barbados, effective January 11, 2007. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Anguilla, Antigua-Barbuda, Barbados, Bequia, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St Lucia, St Maarten, St Martin, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago are all represented at the fourth annual re-DISCOVER the Caribbean Show in Barbados. read more.. |
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LONDON, England (AFP):  Euan Blair, eldest son of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has been discharged from a hospital in Barbados, the prime minister's office said Friday. Sky News television reported earlier that the 22-year-old university student had suffered "abdominal pains". read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: One of the 11 bodies discovered on a small yacht off Barbados four months ago has now been identified but there is as yet no word on burial arrangements for the men. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Oil companies could have permission by the end of the year to drill in deep waters off Barbados, according to Minister of Energy and the Environment, Elizabeth Thompson. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: According to recent media reports, low cost carrier Flyglobespan will begin non-stop weekly flights from Glasgow to Barbados on Sundays starting January 21 until April 15, 2007 with Boeing 767-300 aircraft. read more.. |
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| I would like to commend you on your informative website which keeps West Indians at home and abroad of what is happening in the region. Permit me to submit a brief letter with regards to Barbados. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Barbados Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, has taken a new bride -- Julie Price, his former executive assistant and mother of his five-year-old daughter. The 56-year-old leader took the vows on Saturday during a simple ceremony at his official residence at Ilaro Court. read more.. |
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LONDON, England (AFP):  British Prime Minister Tony Blair came under strong criticism on Saturday for carrying on with his holiday in the Caribbean while Britain faced its highest ever terror alert. Blair delayed leaving Britain for his Caribbean holiday by three days last week to help secure a UN resolution. read more.. |
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| It was reported recently that the Barbados Tourism Authority is resurrecting the Best of Barbados programme in Britain. Each person booking one of the packages will be given a £150 (US$283) subsidy. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Barbados-based Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) has launched its Caribbean channel, CaribVision. CMC officials are hailing it as an authentic regional channel. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados is being described as one of the most prohibitively expensive places in the world, even more so than Brussels. read more.. |
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| The dramatic decline in cruise ship passengers visiting Barbados has largely been blamed on soaring fuel prices. At first, a seemingly plausible and easily acceptable explanation, but then look at other major geographical areas. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Within a few weeks, a seismic monitoring station will be established in Barbados at Gun Hill, St George, as part of a wider tsunami early warning system to be established across the region. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: In another seven to ten days, authorities should be able to identify the remains of the 11 bodies found on a vessel drifting off the east coast of Barbados in April this year. read more.. |
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| Once again the Prime Minister of Barbados is grandstanding. Barbados is a nation facing many, many problems. The lone Government-run hospital in the island is in near chaos. read more.. |
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| In a recently released United Kingdom Tourism Survey, it was revealed that UK residents took a staggering 138 million overnight domestic stays in 2005. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  FirstCaribbean is investing US$9m in building a new state of the art Regional Business Centre in Barbados. This new building will house regional Operations, IT and Cards teams serving the Bank’s pan-Caribbean footprint from their location in Barbados. read more.. |
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| SANTA CLARA, USA (AFP): The United States pounded Barbados 91-0 here Saturday in a 2007 Rugby World Cup qualifier. The USA will meet Canada in the final match of the Americas qualifying group 3b. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Twenty-six men will soon go on trial for burning down Glendairy Prison in Barbados last year during an uprising at what was then the country's only adult penal institution. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AFP): Canada romped to an 11-try victory over Barbados on Saturday, beating the Caribbean island nation 71-3 (h-t: 45-0) in a 2007 Rugby World Cup qualifier. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Caribbean Court of Justice was on Tuesday due to consider an appeal brought by the Barbados government, that will seek to overthrow a legal precedent that blocks execution of murder convicts after five years of being sentenced. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The approval of a motion for the future resumption of commercial whaling could have disastrous effects on tourism in the Caribbean, says an environmental activist in Barbados. read more.. |
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| The Barbados Government, fresh from a crushing defeat of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, now has the legal precedent of the Pratt and Morgan ruling in its cross hairs. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Muslim community in Barbados has offered to bury the remains of the eleven bodies found onboard a vessel drifting off the island in April. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (AFP): Spanish police have launched an international manhunt for a human trafficker who left 47 African migrants on his boat to starve to death as they drifted across the Atlantic towards the Caribbean island of Barbados. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: HIV infection levels have remained stable in Barbados, but the number of AIDS deaths in the country appears to be on the decline, according to the UNAIDS 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Barbados government says it's spending at least BDS$500 a day storing the bodies of the 11 men found in a vessel floating off the coast of the island in April. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: More details are emerging about the circumstances surrounding the death of 11 people whose bodies were found on a boat off the coast of Barbados last month. read more.. |
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| It was with absolute incredulity that we recently received notification that the Barbados Tourism Authority has yet again resurrected the highly discounted Best of Barbados programme in our second largest market (United States) for this summer. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The new Plenipotentiary Representative of Barbados to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has pledged his country's "unwavering commitment" to the goals of CARICOM. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (AFP): A Senegalese boat carrying the mummified bodies of 11 passengers found adrift off the coast of Barbados may have set sail with as many as 37 African migrants on board, according to documents found on board. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Police in Barbados have nabbed two Americans in connection with the discovery of $1.8 million worth of pure cocaine on a yacht anchored on the West Coast of the island. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, says he believes Caribbean countries have adopted the right strategy for their economies to respond to the tough challenges which they're now facing. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Foul play has been ruled out in the deaths of eleven men whose bodies were found in a small unnamed boat off Barbados some ten days ago. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Barbados economy has grown by more than three per cent for the seventh consecutive quarter - a situation which Central Bank Governor Dr Marion Williams says is unusual for that period of time. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados : Autopsies have been conducted, but the mystery of what caused the death of eleven men found on a drifting vessel just off Barbados has not yet been solved. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Interpol has been called in to help local authorities with their investigations into the discovery of eleven bodies aboard a boat drifting off Barbados. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Local police and forensic experts are trying to determine the circumstances that led to the deaths of eleven people, whose badly decomposed bodies were discovered on a boat adrift off Barbados. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados' Prime Minister, Owen Arthur has given the European Union a failing grade for the way it has managed the change in its sugar protocol with the region. He made the comments as the fifth United Kingdom-Caribbean forum began at the Barbados Hilton. read more.. |
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| ROAD TOWN, BVI: The UK/CARICOM Security Cooperation Agreement is one of the issues being discussed as British Virgin Islands Chief Minister Dr Orlando Smith and other CARICOM leaders met in Barbados on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: West Indies pacemen, allrounder Ian Bradshaw and Fidel Edwards, are keen on playing in the upcoming seven-match One-Day International (ODI) series against Zimbabwe on Saturday. read more.. |
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| Your correspondent from Trinidad, Stephen Cummings, was quick to report on Wednesday April 12, "A long-running maritime law battle between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago has ended with a victory for Trinidad". read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: For the third time in as many years, the editors of Global Finance magazine have named FirstCaribbean “Best Bank in Barbados”. read more.. |
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| In its editorial column dated Friday 21st April 2006, Barbados’s largest circulation newspaper, the Nation, claimed that, after running various articles on recent industrial unrest, ‘the Nation Publishing Company was served by CLICO’s agents with cancellation notices of all advertising previously booked’. read more.. |
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| POINTE-A-PIERRE, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago defeated Barbados by 125 runs to claim the 2005-06 Carib Beer Challenge title at Guaracara Park on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados' Agriculture Minister says this country won't be giving up on the sugar cane industry as some of its Caribbean neighbours have done. read more.. |
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| For a long time I have questioned whether ‘we’ are spending the millions of dollars allocated to marketing Barbados in the most cost-effective way. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The multi-million dollar internet piracy case in which Barbadian broadcaster, Linda Walrond has been implicated is going ahead without her, but she isn't off the hook yet. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago have been told they have to work out an agreement to allow and govern the access of Barbadian fishermen to Trinidad waters. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A long-running maritime law battle between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago has ended with a victory for Trinidad. read more.. |
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| It’s a shame when such an esteemed newspaper loses its objectivity! In a front page Barbados Advocate headline on 29th March ‘Tourism industry bouncing back’ and again in an article dated 1st April ‘Tourism bouncing back’ are classic examples. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: One man has been charged with manslaughter and five others are facing violent disorder charges as police continued their investigations into the altercation outside a City nightclub that left brothers Justin and William Greene dead. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Two brothers were snatched from a Barbados family over the weekend when they were stabbed to death outside a nightclub. read more.. |
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| I am writing to make you aware of a website with a very disturbing article from a former inmate at Glendairy and Harrison Point prisons here in Barbados, West Indies. read more.. |
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| Bold front page headlines carried in the Thursday March 16 edition of the Barbados Advocate scream ‘Hoyte wants to unseat BLP’, referring to the governing Barbados Labour Party. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  The Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) already has a full programme planned for 2006, but is willing to do whatever it takes to win the upcoming Stanford 20/20 Tournament, including shuffling some of its domestic cricket activities around. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: A new report on money laundering is suggesting that money may be leaving Barbados in aid of terrorism, without the authorities knowing about it. read more.. |
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| With the Barbadian opposition party seemingly in disarray, it’s difficult to comprehend why the Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, made such a malicious verbal attack on Harold Hoyte, the Editor-in-Chief of the largest circulation daily newspaper, The Nation, recently. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Barbados' top male sprinter and lone Olympic medallist in an individual event, Obadele Thompson, said his decision to skip this month's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, was to give his aching body enough time to recover from the injuries he's been suffering from. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Prime Minister Owen Arthur has launched his Barbados Labour Party (BLP) election campaign. He threw down the gauntlet and officially declared the election season open, warning that the gloves would be off and the BLP is prepared to go to the mat with anyone who wanted to get into a fight. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Cabinet reshuffle which took effect Monday in Barbados is being seen in the Opposition camp as an attempt by Prime Minister Owen Arthur to reaffirm his status of maximum leader of both his party and the country. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, has announced some major changes in his Cabinet, including the creation of new post for former Opposition Leader, Clyde Mascoll, who just weeks ago joined the ranks of the Barbados Labour Party read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: An arrest warrant has been issued in the United States for the Barbadian broadcaster who American authorities say was part of a cyber group that pirated over $12 million in movies, computer software and games. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: By 2008, members of the clergy should be among those included in the category of people allowed free movement across the region, and a framework for a single economy is also set to be completed by that time. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, has decided to take the administrative lead in the redevelopment of the Kensington Oval for Cricket World Cup 2007. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: A five wicket haul from man-of-the-match Mervyn Dillon anchored Trinidad and Tobago to their first regional first-class title in 21 years after completing a comprehensive 264-run victory over Barbados on the fourth and final day of their final preliminary match in the Carib Beer Series on Sunday. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (AFP): The Church of England Wednesday apologised for its historical role in the slave trade, accepting it was directly implicated in it through its Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and the properties it owned overseas, notably in Barbados in the West Indies. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: US Federal authorities are set to extradite a Barbadian woman to face charges stemming from her alleged involvement in a pirate group's internet theft of movies, computer software and games. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  It's official! Former Leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has made history by becoming the first Opposition Leader in Barbados to switch sides and join the Barbados Labour Party (BLP). The BLP's General Secretary, Dr. William Duguid announced in a press release that the ruling party has accepted Clyde Mascoll in its ranks. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Days after resigning from the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and sitting in the House of Assembly as an Independent MP, former Opposition Leader Clyde Mascoll has indicated he is almost certain he'll be joining the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP). He says he has been approached by the BLP. read more.. |
Thursday, January 19, 2006
 BRIDGETOWN,
Barbados: After postponing his Economic and Financial Statement on two
occasions, Prime Minister Owen Arthur has delivered the news of some relief for
low and middle-income earners. And he has also revealed a major effort to cut
energy costs, proposing a plan that could save the country BDS$65 million to $90
million...
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Barbados opposition leader cuts ties with party
Thursday, January 19, 2006
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The former Barbados Opposition leader has severed ties
with the Democratic Labour Party, as four of his parliamentary colleagues
indicated they no longer have confidence in him...
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Letter:
Tourism comparisons - How are ‘we’ doing?
Thursday, January 19, 2006
According to a news report carried by Caribbean Net News (source: Shervon Alfred), the Minister of Tourism for St. Lucia, Phillip J. Pierre and the island’s tourism director, Hillary Modeste are predicting a more than doubling of long-stay
visitors for 2006 when compared with last year...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
BROOKLYN, USA: The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has expressed deep disappointment over the recent deportation of Barbadian Construction worker, Mr. Roger Braithwaite, from Guyana on his arrival at the Timehri
International Airport...
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Friday, January 13, 2006
When so many other carriers are increasing their flights to the Caribbean it
seems like a tragedy that Continental Airlines are totally ceasing operations to
Barbados...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
It’s interesting to hear representatives from Standard and Poor’s, the financial
rating agency reiterate what many of us in the tourism industry have been saying
for years...
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Monday, January 9, 2006
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Police in Barbados are investigating an explosion that
claimed the life of a man as he defused fireworks left over from Old Year's
Night celebrations...
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Fuel prices go up again
in Barbados
Monday, January 9, 2006
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: For the second time in nine months, petrol prices in Barbados are going up. The Energy Ministry has announced that from next Monday, Barbadians will pay as much as 25
percent more to put gas in their vehicle tanks...
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Monday, January 2, 2006
No one can blame any trade union for actively pursuing above inflation wage
increases for their members, but I really feel strongly that it is long overdue
for tourism policymakers to sit down with them and carefully explain exactly how
the industry works...
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