Lies of Omission: Barbados Advocate article IDB “$400 Million Boost” doesn’t once mention word “Loan” !!!!

FREE MONEY!!!!
Oh Gawd, this is freaking hilarious!
The #1 government mouthpiece, The Barbados Advocate, does an entire article about the recent Inter-American Development Bank loan of US$200 million to Barbados and doesn’t once mention that it is a loan to be repaid. A loan that plunges the country further in debt.
Listen friends: I’m not debating whether [...]

CBC Employee writes about Richard Cox

Richard Cox was a tough man who, over the past forty years in Journalism, caused many admirers and detractors to come to light both here and overseas.
As a young Journalist he was sharp, fearless and brazen and one remembers well when challenged by one of his “bosses” to desist from “drinking on the job” his [...]

Barbados Advocate ‘Yellow Journalism’ Editorial Ignores the Truth: Hartley Henry carried out his threat at Barbados Underground

WARNING: MATURE CONTENT – Discussion of alleged intimate acts
Tell your neighbours, Tell your friends about the Lie in The Barbados Advocate

It is really very simple, folks. Let’s review what happened step by step…
1/ August 23, 2009 – An article at the Nation News is published accusing the PM’s senior advisor, Harley Henry, of threatening [...]

Murdered Canadian Tourist Terry Schwarzfeld Called “White Trash” – Senior Advisor to Barbados Prime Minister Publishes Articles on Same Racist Website!

Why Does Prime Minister Thompson’s most senior advisor publish articles at a website that calls Terry Schwarzfeld “White Trash”?
Early this year, readers from Barbados Free Press voted to remove the sidebar links to the Barbados Underground blog because that blog had become a racist hotbed – and also because they published reader comments containing threats [...]

Senior Advisor To Prime Minister David Thompson Follows Through With Threats Against Barbados Journalist

Hartley Henry Makes Public Allegations of Sexual Impropriety, Beatings, Attempted Suicide by Nation Newspaper Staffers
Uses Barbados Underground Blog
We told you on August 24, 2009 how Barbados journalist and editor Carol Martindale alleges that Hartley Henry threatened to turn Barbados against her if The Nation Newspaper did not print a story about a political poll [...]

Prime Minister Thompson and the Barbados News Media Agree That Some Things Aren’t Worth Talking About: Like Integrity Legislation, Freedom of Information, CLICO Conflicts of Interest etc.

Just a quick note before I head off to work…
Prime Minister Thompson and the Barbados news media had themselves a little party earlier this evening where the conversation was as carefully scripted as a Broadway play. You can read about it in the Nation (Hotel Help) and the Barbados Advocate (PM discusses economy) – but [...]

Cayman News Media Uses Freedom Of Information Request To Monitor Cayman Islands’ Ministry Of Tourism Expenses

“A trip to Washington, DC, for the first ever annual Caribbean Tourism Summit last June cost the Cayman Islands’ Department and Ministry of Tourism nearly CI$200,000.
And the Department of Tourism US sales meetings held in Miami in February cost $50,287.
The information comes from a recent Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Tourism. Although [...]

Source: Rape-Accused Roy Morris Bought Off Girl’s Family – About To Be Re-Hired By Barbados Nation Newspaper

Barbados Rapists Can Buy Their Way Out Of Jail – Larger Societal Interests Forgotten
While we compose our thoughts about the Roy Morris rape charges fading into the mist, we’ll print this letter received anonymously through an anonymous remailing service in Russia. We remind folks that the letter is anonymous and may contain falsehoods. We also [...]

Cry-Baby Barbados Nation News Staffer Uses BFP Blog To Hit Back Over Firings!

A Word From BFP Editor Marcus…
Oh, the delicious irony.

After years of being lapdog to the BLP government. After years of unethically suppressing news and stories that embarrassed the political and business elites of Barbados. After failing time and time again to fulfill a journalist’s duty to guard the public trust… a fired Nation News staffer [...]

Barbados News Media Refuse To Cover NUPW Press Release About Queen Elizabeth Hospital Doctors

Editor’s Note: The below was anonymously submitted to Barbados Free Press. If any of our readers have any reason to question its authenticity or the accuracy of anything it says, please speak up. That’s how we fact-check at BFP: we encourage our readers to become involved.
Thanks!
Robert.
Here it is as we received it, with the introductory [...]

Barbados Court Attempts To Have Closed Bail Hearings For Arrested Journalists

Power Of Numbers Prevails As Barbados Court Opens To The Public
On Monday, a Barbados judge changed an earlier decision to have a closed bail hearing for the two freelance journalists arrested last Saturday when they tried to take photographs of a police officer charged with dealing in cocaine. (See Nation stories: Journalists Show Support & [...]

World Attention On Barbados Journalist Arrests

Harvard Law School’s Global Voices, Reuters, Taking Interest In The Threat To Journalistic Freedom In Barbados

The Global Voices website at Harvard Law School receives millions of visitors each day and provides information and stories to major media around the world in conjunction with Reuters News.
Today they published a feature article on the arrests of Barbados [...]

Reader Calls For More Professionalism From Barbados Nation Newspaper

Over the years, the level of accuracy coming out of the Nation Newspaper as it relates to major and minor stories has been diminishing.  Most recently was the report that the Giant African Snail was breeding with local snails, with a photograph to prove this.
My disappointment comes with the obvious lack of basic investigation before [...]

Roy Morris Rape Charge Fading Into The Barbados Mist

UPDATED: April 19, 2009
We read Dr. Leonard Shorey’s latest article in the Barbados Advocate with some sadness and not a little amusement. In Perspectives: Different Strokes For Different Folks – Why? Dr. Shorey rightly highlights and condemns that the Barbados Justice system and society have little concern for the rule of law. Members of various [...]

“Wicked Bajan Blogs” Vex Racially-Prejudiced Citizen Who Is Happy With No Integrity Laws

NOTE FROM BFP’s ROBERT: Without going into the details, I am off the island on one of my trips. By the time I return I will have flown entirely around the world “the long way”.
“Oh,” you say “It is the same distance around the world one way as the other.”
You are wrong. To fly around [...]

Thousands Of News Outlets Worldwide Mention Barbados Free Press, Credit Our Tiny Snake Story – Associated Press, CNN, Newsweek, NBC News, New York Times…

Welcome To The Thousands and Thousands Of New Visitors To Barbados Free Press
At the time I am writing this, the Associated Press story Barbadians slam discovery, naming of tiny snake is less than five hours old, yet an online search shows that thousands of news outlets worldwide have published the story. The online issues of [...]

CNN.com Links To Keltruth ‘VECO Barbados Jail Fraud’ Story – Big Step For Little Barbados Blog

CNN Links To Keltruth Blog For The Fourth Time!
Every day millions of blogs all over the world link to major news sites like BBC, Fox, CNN, NY Times, Sky and others as the bloggers write their own takes on the day’s happenings. Huge news organisations like CNN sometimes have hundreds or even thousands of blogs [...]

Barbados Advocate Lies To Bajans – Deceitfully Portrays Paid Advertisement As Independent Journalism By Foreign Affairs Magazine!!!

You Can’t Get Much More Like Propaganda Than This, Folks!
The Government of Barbados – Barbados Tourism Authority took out a paid advertisement in the prestigious magazine, Foreign Affairs Journal, published by the Council on Foreign Relations. The feature piece on Barbados quite clearly states that it is a purchased advertisement, a “sponsored publication” – yet [...]

Fox News Television Deliberately Alters Photos In News Segment

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“Professional” News Media Has A History Of Lies And Manipulation

Once again critics of blogging like Mia Mottley and Ezra Alleyne are reminded that the so-called “professional media” often distorts, lies and manipulates the news to suit corporate, political, religious and individual agendas.
That is reality, folks. Reporters and editors are people like all the [...]

Newest Nation News Journalist Is Robin Gregg – The Famous Plagiarist? THAT Robin Gregg?

Did The Nation News Publish An Article By THE Robin Gregg – The Plagiarist?

Perhaps there is more than one man named Robin Gregg who works as a freelance journalist… but we can’t find two!
Our online searches reveal a female author named Robin Gregg and a male author named Robin Gregg.
A male journalist & author named [...]

Nation News Exclusive!!!! Mango Tree Crashes Into Yard!!!

“I was in the toilet when I heard it and all I could say was: ‘Lord, have mercy.’
… from the Nation News breaking story Mango Tree Crashes Into Yard
Friends, we have tears running down our faces. Cliverton is rolling on the floor hyperventilating. We have been trying for an hour to write a clever and [...]

University Of The West Indies Construction: Caribbean Companies Squeezed Out By Chinese Government

This story was leaked to the Nation News and CBC a week ago. Why hasn’t the Barbados news media covered this story?
Our thanks to a special friend who sent us the following letter. For the record, none of the people named in the letter had anything to do with delivering this letter to Barbados Free [...]

Daniel May Holiday Murder In Barbados – Family In Pain As Killer Is Sentenced – Barbados News Media Cover-up

2005 Robbery Turned Into Murder Of British Tourist
A July 2005 holiday in Barbados turned into a tragedy as a British couple watched their only child shot to death by armed thugs who had broken into the family’s villa. Daniel May was 19 years old when he went to help his father who was being beaten. [...]

Nation News Covers Up For Queen Elizabeth Hospital In Radioactive Iodine Scandal

Back on March 23, 2008, Barbados Free Press took exception to the Nation News coverage of an important health story: the Queen Elizabeth Hospital had run out of radioactive iodine used to treat cancer patients… and that Barbados cancer patients had been without treatment for several months. (Nation News March 23, 2008)
Our story Your Daily [...]

Brass Tacks Radio Discussing Barbados Blogs – Carl Moore: “Barbados Journalism Has Been Floundering For Decades”

Journalist Ricky Singh… “The local media gave a free ride to the governing party…”
The Brass Tacks radio show is now over. Here are our notes written while listening to the show…
Listen in on Brass Tacks Right Now!
International listeners can hear the show at www.vob929.com
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Journalists Carl Moore, David Ellis, Ricky Singh, CBC’s Head of News Richard [...]

The Spin By The DLP And The Barbados Media Starts…

Why Did The DLP Win?
Why Did the BLP Go Down In Flames?
Everybody is entitled to their opinions, folks… at least now that an oppressive government has been removed from the reins of power.
But how quickly the news media and the DLP have worked to twist the issues and the outcome of the election to [...]

Former Nation News Journalist Angry At Barbados Free Press

Pretty Girl Rips Out Cliverton’s Heart, Stomps It Into The Dirt
“Naive”
“crass sensationalism and irresponsible journalism”
“careless and cowardly”
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Cliverton is in agony. He fell in love with blogger Caribbean Lionesse last winter as the snow was whipping through his dormitory window in the US of A. Much like a convict in jail looks at [...]

Roy Morris Rape Charge In Court Thursday

Veteran Bajan journalist Roy Morris is in court tomorrow on a rape charge. Morris was the Nation News Associate Managing Editor in July when the alleged rape occurred. He was arrested and charged by police on August 14th after Barbados blogs refused to let the story die.
The story was broken by the Barbados Free Press [...]

Nation News Wants Banned Barbadian Journalist Adrian Loveridge To Write Column

David at Barbados Underground and Friends at Barbados Free Press
Earlier this week I met with Hartley Henry at his request. He has asked me to write a column which will replace his Thursday half page in the Nation every other week.
I have tried to remain politically impartial and have never actually been a party member [...]

Misleading Headlines In The Barbados Advocate

Regular BFP reader and commenter Bush Tea wrote the following and sent it to us for publication. BFP has not edited the article at all…
I may be picky, or just plain paranoid, but I have noticed that the Barbados Advocate News has developed the practice of featuring the worse of crime in the Caribbean in [...]

Don Mitchell CBE, QC Picks Up On The Barbados Government’s Suppression Of Free Speech

Corruption-free Anguilla is a blog authored by Don Mitchell CBE, QC. Lately Mr. Mitchell has been looking at the efforts of Anguillans as they prepare for independence and he often features articles about corruption in government service, social issues and the environment.
Today he has picked up on the government of Barbados claiming that Barbados Free [...]

Voice Of Barbados Radio Paid $65,000 To Politician From Slush Fund – Source

Which government politician extorted the money this time? Was in Gline Clarke, Noel Lynch or some other thief? So many candidates!
For the full story on this disgusting practice by the yellow-bellied cowardly crawling Barbados media, head on over to Barbados Underground (link here)

Myanmar Cuts Internet To Shut Down Bloggers and Independent News

The government of Myanmar (Burma) is killing people on the streets again this morning, and they have shut down all internet service to the country.
You see friends, despots everywhere fear a free news media, but most of all they fear ordinary people discussing corruption, freedom and democracy.
That is true in Myanmar, and it is true [...]

Where Is The Barbados Media On Corruption, Fly Over Investigation And So Many Other Issues?

“In my travels across the region I have found the Barbados newspapers to be the absolute worst — insipid, uninspiring and devoid of any of the passion that one normally associates with journalism. Reading them brings on feelings of suffocation, suppression and suspicion…“

… Jamaican businessman F. Wade writing on his Moving Back To Jamaica [...]

Barbados Underground Publishes 2nd Print Edition – But The Article Misses The Point (IOHO)

“…Thompson And The DLP Appear Hapless And Helpless…”
Barbados Underground has published their second print edition, which can be read and copied by clicking on the photo above or here.
BU updated an important article that is becoming more important with every day that the political opposition leader and his party prove they are incapable, [...]

Brass Tacks – David Ellis Has One Hand Tied Behind His Back While Interviewing Clyde “I Know Nothing About That” Mascoll

Everybody In The Media Is Afraid To Ask Real Questions Of Government Members
Radio Host David Ellis was obviously under so many constraints during his interview of Clyde Mascoll today that he should have called off the show.
But I suppose that Ellis couldn’t do that either… not with a mortgage and a family. So he went [...]

Barbados Free Press Now Moderates All Comments – A Necessary Change After Weeks Of Cyber Attacks By Barbados Government

For Almost Two Years…
Since January 17, 2006, Barbados Free Press has been not only a publisher of news and information, this blog has been an open forum where Bajans and others have enjoyed the freedom to discuss issues and information that is censored from public discussion in the mainstream Barbados media.
We and our readers [...]