Monthly Archives: September 2009
First Swine Flu – H1N1 Death in Barbados – Patients report no masks, no hand gel at Warrens Polyclinic!
Barbados Swine Flu Death “an adult and had underlying medical conditions” Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Joy St. John informed the media Wednesday night that Barbados has had 96 cases of H1N1 and unfortunately, its first H1N1 flu death. Dr. … Continue reading →
Barbados Family & Friends Club – Good idea, good start making it happen!
A friend directed our attention to the website of the Barbados Family & Friends Club – an initiative by the Barbados Tourism Authority to encourage Bajans abroad and people overseas (Bajan or not) who love Barbados to encourage their friends … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Family & Friends, Barbados Tourism
CLICO sold to CGI – Skeletons will be pulled out of the closet and buried deep
Consumers Guarantee Insurance Limited of Barbados is approved to purchase the assets of CLICO. The secretive committee formed by Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson to keep CLICO skeletons in the closet worked swiftly to sell the remaining assets before the … Continue reading →
Texas Billionaire Crook Sir Allen Stanford hospitalised after jailhouse attack. Can we get a deal on his yacht?
As of Sunday night, SIR Allen Stanford is still in hospital after taking a thumping last Thursday in a jail about 40 miles north of Houston Texas. His injuries are reported minor and there is no word why he’s still … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Business & Banking, Corruption, Offshore Investments
Tagged as Barbados, CLICO, Corruption, Ponzi Scheme, Sir Allen Stanford
Barbados Government & media focus on trees, coral and beaches. Wetlands are a forbidden topic.
“Wetlands” a banned topic in Barbados Media & Politics Our newspapers, television and radio media are never lacking in articles and reminders about the importance of our natural environment. If there’s not a story in the Nation about cleaning up … Continue reading →
Using World Tourism Day to build bridges between cultures and religions
Rome’s Holy See puts out an excellent short video marking World Tourism Day “Through tourism you have the chance to meet and to know people of different minds and opinions and religions and idiosyncrasies, etc. And this can be an … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados
Where did Denis Lowe get the money to pay for this Barbados Advocate advertisement?
The Public has no right in law to monitor any government expenditures – Once elected, MPs do as they wish The simplest questions are often the most awkward – but only if you have to answer them. Dr. Lowe and … Continue reading →
Push Pull Blog’s Tourism Study on Brass Tacks Radio, Sunday
Dear BU and BFP (as well as your respective readers!), Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone for assistance with my questionnaire. In total, I collected 405 valid responses. Secondly, as a result of some nifty networking on the part of … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Tourism impacts in Barbados
Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government.com links to Barbados Free Press over ACORN Scandal
The website that broke the ACORN prostitution scandal, Big Government.com, currently features a front page link to a Barbados Free Press story – and our hit meter is starting to go wild. Drudge Report editor, Washington Times journalist and Fox … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Corruption, Offshore Investments, Political Corruption, Politics, Politics & Corruption
Tagged as ACORN Scandal, Andrew Breitbart, Barbados, Barbados Free Press, Corruption, Infanticide
The Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry – Franchising Presentation with Regional Expert Mario Sabga-Aboud: Wednesday September 30th
Franchising – A Catalyst for Economic Development There are strong and opposing views in the Barbadian business community over the granting of a licence to open a franchise of the American fast food chain Subway in Barbados. Some members of … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Business, Consumer Issues, Offshore Investments
Tagged as Barbados Business, Barbados Franchising, Barbdos Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Tsunami of Swiss, European visitors to our Leroy Parris – CLICO articles
Hundreds of Swiss and other continental visitors are arriving at Barbados Free Press to read our articles dealing with CLICO and Leroy Parris. The trend started early last night and started to taper off about 11am Bridgetown, which is 5pm … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Corruption, Crime & Law
Tagged as Barbados, British American Insurance Company Limited Fraud, CLICO, CLICO Bailout, CLICO Fraud, Conflicts of Interest, Corruption, Leroy Parris
Report: Leroy Parris ‘may retire’ from CLICO. Question: Would they dare fire him?
CBC says it hears “reports” that the Chairman of CLICO Holdings will be retiring before the year end and that he made his intentions known to the board last Monday. That is the story from CBC where last time we … Continue reading →
Idiocy! Government Minister Hutson says “Look to Latinos”, but Barbados Tourism Authority failed to establish Spanish, Portuguese language websites despite 10 years of begging by hotel owners
Those leaders who can… do. The rest of the politicians and tourism officials talk, talk, talk and then do nothing. Minister of International Business and International Transport George Hutson gave a press conference last Sunday where he mused about the … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Offshore Investments, Tourism, Travel, Traveling and Tourism
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Investment, Barbados Tourism
Little Good Harbour getting ready for a Bajan Christmas
Dear Barbados Free Press, Andrew & Patricia Warden own and operate Little Good Harbour on our West Coast as a family-run hotel. “Family-run” means that they are hands-on people, not that you’ll think you’re still at home during a miserable … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Christmas Vacation, Little Good Harbour
Conflicts of Interest and Sinister Secrecy Continue in CLICO Scandal
Update: March 2, 2010 This article was originally published by us on September 22, 2009. In light of Afra Raymond’s excellent article published by BFP on March 1, 2010 CL Financial & CLICO Bailout – The Mystery of the Missing Billions … Continue reading →
Norman Borlaug is dead – I should have known who he was.
Our thanks to BFP reader Throckmorton for posting the link to this story as a comment. From the Globe and Mail Blogs by Andrew Steele… The death of the greatest human being who ever lived by Andrew Steele Norman Borlaug … Continue reading →
Filed under Agriculture, Barbados
Tagged as Ending poverty and famine, Nobel Peace Prize 1970, Norman Borlaug
There’s nothing like an exposed septic tank on the beach to impress the tourists!
Has Environment Minister Denis Lowe seen the exposed septic tank? If Barbados’ Minister of the Environment hasn’t seen this, we’d have to ask “Why not?” If he has seen it, we’d have to ask “Why hasn’t he done anything about … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Disaster, Environment, Offshore Investments, Tourism
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Environmental Disaster
When there is a lack of will to punish wrongdoers, the world pays attention
UPDATED: June 10, 2010 Friends, we’d like to mention once again that we are well into the third year of DLP Government and not a single person has been charged with any corruption-based crime. Therefore, it’s not going to happen. … Continue reading →
