Monthly Archives: January 2012
Barbados Tourism Authority ignores TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice awards
‘Unlike any other hotel honours, TripAdvisor Travelers Choice winners are based on millions of valuable reviews and opinions from travellers around the world’. Tourism MATTERS Up until the time of submitting this column, well over 500 major news organisations and … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados Tourism
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados award-winning hotels, Barbados Hotels, Barbados Tourism, Barbados Tourism Authority
Reader: NIS should invest in Barbados Four Seasons project
Lest we forget some of the reasons for this project… Submitted by BFP reader WL Me thinks that people have perhaps become a little too bogged down in the trees of politics and grandstanding and everyone is tired from looking … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Economy, Offshore Investments
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Four Seasons Barbados
Canadian Muslim family guilty in mass honour killing
Keeping women in their place. Words of the father… “May the devil shit on their graves,” “They committed treason themselves. They betrayed humankind. They betrayed Islam. They betrayed our religion…they betrayed everything.” “I say to myself, ‘You did well.’ Were … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Culture & Race Issues, Human Rights, Religion
Tagged as Honour Killing, Islam, Religion
Bajan Reporter oversteps criticism of Barbados news media
Journalist Ian Bourne of the Bajan Reporter breaks many news stories and covers subjects and perspectives that the old school news media can’t or won’t touch. He’s been inside the professional news industry and knows about the agendas, ethical trade-offs … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados News & Media, Ethics, Freedom Of The Press
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Journalism, Barbados News & Media
Crime and Punishment: Drug smuggler LIAT pilot gets only a fine for 65 pounds of weed
International drug smugglers usually rot in prison for years. Why was the court so easy on Keith Allen? Admitted drug trafficker and smuggler Keith Richard Otway Allen (above) is a lucky man today because he’s walking free when all reason … Continue reading →
Filed under Crime & Law, Human Rights, Police
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Drug Smuggling, Barbados Justice, Drug smuggling
Muslim yells “allahu akbar” as he shoots up The Pentagon. News media says motive unclear.
Let’s see here… American Muslim puts on a facemask, drives along with Muslim prayers playing on the car stereo and shoots his 9mm pistol at US military facilities while yelling “allahu akbar”. Why, whatever could be his motivation? What a … Continue reading →
Idiocy: Criminal charges, $10,000 bail for streaking at cricket match.
Where are the priorities? Where is the common sense? That’s Michael Arthur Francis Marshall you’re looking at, and a dangerous fellow he is too. On Errol Barrow day the 20 year-old student had one rum too many and decided it … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Crime & Law, Police
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Crime, Streaking
Barbados wants to know about the Organo Gold legal fight
A Caution to my fellow Barbadians by Barbados Free Press reader “T.C.” Many of you have lost your jobs or seen your hours cut back like I have. Money is scarce and you can see and feel how hard life … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Business, Consumer Issues
Tagged as Barbados, Multi level marketing, Organo Gold
Barbados prisoner Raúl García vows hunger strike until death
Pinned to top until Raul Garcia dies or is freed. Scroll down for other stories. painting by Raul Garcia Completed 20 year sentence in Barbados prison – held illegally for 2 years since then! May 26, 2012: Day 101 since … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Crime & Law, Human Rights
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Hunger Strike, Human Rights, Raúl García
Tripadvisor: Boscobel Toll Gang still frightening tourists
Barbados Police unable to stop gang for seven years With 27 million unique visitors a month, TripAdvisor.com is the world’s most popular travel website – and right now a very active topic of discussion on the Barbados forum is (once … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Crime & Law, Police
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Crime, Barbados Tourism, Boscobel road toll gang
Muslim riots in Maldives – A Barbados vacation looks better all the time!
Hundreds riot in support of Islamic Sharia law Rioters say Government under the influence of “Jews” and “Christian priests” to weaken Islam in the Maldives. (It’s the JEWS!!! JEWS!!! JEWS!!! I tell you! And those damned infidel Christian beer drinkers … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Human Rights, Religion, Tourism, Travel, Traveling and Tourism
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Islam, Maldives, Maldives Honeymoon, Sharia Law
Barbados mother says “I’ll breed ‘em. YOU feed ‘em!”
Story #1,243 in a continuing Nation Cultural Series… by BFP reader Passin thru Jacqueline Blunt is 40 years old and has five children (by how many different men we’re not told). She’s long-term unemployed and lives with her mother; who … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Culture & Race Issues
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados culture, Unemployable single mothers
Huffington Post says avoid Barbados… if you’re gay or lesbian
Huffington Post: Anti-gay laws a legacy of “outdated British colonial laws” Barbados’ criminalization of buggery continues to attract attention in human rights and tourism discussions. In 2010 Ethical Traveller Awards slammed Barbados for our anti-gay love law, and in 2011 … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Crime & Law, Culture & Race Issues, Ethics, Human Rights
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Gay Marriage, Human Rights
Genetically modified food: What’s it doing to humans?
Farmer discovers that his GMO corn contains Estrogen-mimicking compounds, causes false pregnancies in animals. by Green Monkey “This is bothering our pigs, bothering our cows: what’s it doing to humans?” A self-described former “cutting edge, “advanced technology” American farmer fed … Continue reading →
Filed under Agriculture, Barbados, Consumer Issues, Environment
Tagged as Barbados, GMO Agriculture, GMO Foods
Wally Serote on the International Monetary Fund, Fox News… and your life
“I will therefore not allow myself to be trapped in Western thinking, which has presided over thought and ideas and has dictated to the world what to think.” Wally Serote’s article in the Thinker 31 poses serious questions: “We can … Continue reading →
Filed under Africa, Barbados, Consumer Issues, Culture & Race Issues, Economy
Tagged as Africa, Barbados, International Monetary Fund abuses
Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association CEO: “worst crisis we have ever faced”
Alec Sanguinetti says tourists want more than beaches – they want history. The director general and CEO of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association says the region has to address serious problems with competitiveness. And to do that, more consideration … Continue reading →
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation porn weather forecast goes viral
Oh baby!!! Oh Oh Oh OH OH BABY!!! A YouTube video of a CBC Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation weather forecast has gone viral in the Caribbean racking up almost 60,000 views in a few days. YouTube shows a segment of the … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Caribbean Media, Freedom Of The Press
Tagged as Barbados, Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, Donville Inniss
A suggestion about the Alexandra School crisis
by Michele Robertson I have been reading of the controversy regarding the Principal and teachers of the Alexandra School and the Ministry of Education. I cannot understand why the people are not looking for a solution but seem to be … Continue reading →
