Part 1 of our new series: Freedom of Speech on the Barbados Blogs
Jeff Cumberbatch of the Barbados Advocate confessed to posting comments (HORRORS!) on two anonymous blogs: Barbados Underground and Barbados Free Press.
(That’s ok, Jeff! We’ve had government ministers posting on BFP – so don’t worry about it. Your secret is safe with us.)
The confession [...]
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Tags: Barbados, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Speech on the blogs
Media Release
Friday, September 11, 2009
6:10am – Somewhere near Grape Hall, Barbados
Barbados Free Press (BFP) today announced that WordPress.com removed one of BFP’s published stories as a result of an official complaint from the Barbados Association of Non-Governmental Organisations.
WordPress.com is the blogging software and hosting destination utilized by Barbados Free Press. Barbados Free Press wishes to [...]
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Tags: Barbados, Barbados Politics, blog wars, Blogging, Freedom of Speech, Politics
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 [...]
Filed under Barbados, Barbados News & Media, Barbados Tourism, Blogging, Canada, Corruption, Culture & Race Issues, Ethics, Freedom Of The Press, Guyana, Human Rights, Immigration, Political Corruption, Politics, Politics & Corruption, Race, Religion, Tourism, Travel, Traveling and Tourism
Tags: Barbados, Barbados Free Press, Barbados Politics, Barbados Racism, Barbados Underground, Canadian Tourist Murdered, Canadian Tourist Murdered in Barbados, Canadian Tourists Attacked, Corruption in Barbados, Freedom Of The Press, Hartley Henry, Human Rights, Immigration, Politics, Prime MInister David Thompson, Race, Race Issues, Religion, Threats on the Internet, Tourist murdered in Barbados
Welcome to BFP’s 3,000th Article!
Barbados Free Press published our first article on January 17, 2006, and right away we let the world know where we stood on Integrity, Transparency and Accountability of elected and appointed public officials in Barbados.
In that article, Prime Minister Owen Arthur Opens a New Can of Paint – To Cover Old [...]
Hello Friends,
This is a little note to let our readers know that we’ve added The Trident discussion forum to our sidebar links under “Bajan Blogs & Chats”.
See you there!
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Tags: Barbados, Barbados Blogging, Barbados Online, The Trident Discussion Forum
Newspapers and TV broadcasters are falling like flies. News media advertising revenues are down in some cases by 70% from just a few years ago as the old-style media and the old-style media managers are left behind by the internet.
Meanwhile, sharp business managers and the rest of the world discovered long ago that online delivery [...]
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Tags: Barbados, Barbados Tourism
Unbelievable But True!
WordPress.com has millions of blogs online, including some of the biggest (CNN & Fox News are pretty big!)…
Have a look at the February 21, 2009 statistics provided by WordPress.com HERE.
This is what they say…
Out of the millions of WordPress.com blogs online…
Top Blog Posts Of The Day – February 21, 2009
#1 CNN
#4 NFL.com Blog
#6 [...]
Thanks to our tens of thousands of new visitors over the last 24 hours – a new world’s record at BFP with well over 40,000 new visitors in the last 24 hour period. (We’re not sure, but as we write this it looks as if we might touch 59,000 or more in the next 24 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Not Bad For A Nothing Little Part-Time Blog From Barbados…
Excuse us for bragging a bit, but we’ve just welcomed our four millionth visitor since we started Barbados Free Press in January of 2006.
Yesterday at 8:18:33pm, our special visitor arrived from Madrid, Spain via a link from Google where they had searched the term “Barbados accounting [...]
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Keltruth Blog Throws Down The Gauntlet – Says “Here’s The Name & Address, Sue Us If We Aren’t Telling The Truth!”
The most amazing scenario is playing out in the world of Barbados blogs…
Civil charges of fraud against a group of defendants that includes some of the most powerful and public figures in Barbados have been [...]
“We na affiliated wid de bajans dem”
About We
We (two of us) have been long time Guyanese readers of the Barbados Free Press, and we always wished they had one for our home country. So we decided ..why not do it ourselves? It looks easy enough, right ? Right.
Good Luck To Our Friends From Guyana!
Guyana Free [...]
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 [...]
“I Will Never Drink Again” says our Clive
After missing in action for more than a week, BFP’s bad boy Cliverton came home to find that he is single again. Frankly I can’t blame either Clive or his girlfriend because everybody knew they were wrong from the start, but they could have chosen a classier and less-public method [...]
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Keltruth Blog Transforms From Boring To BLAST!
We don’t know what has happened to our friends at Keltruth Blog, but they have transformed their image from “stuck on a single issue boring” to a hard-hitting Barbados political and social blog that presents well-researched, take-no-prisoners articles on a wide range of interesting topics.
In the last week alone, [...]
Filed under Barbados, Blogging, Corruption, Crime & Law, Freedom Of The Press, Offshore Investments, Police
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 Free Press Supports Barack Obama… However…
Long ago, Barbados Free Press announced our support for Barack Obama as the next President of the United States of America.
Not that any of us can vote for Mr. Obama, but if we could, we would. Nobody is perfect, and we disagree with Barack Obama on several key issues, [...]
A young man hangs himself at his home and a local photographer is passing by when family members find the body. The photos show the distraught family members and the face of the hanged victim. The partially cut rope still looming over scene in the background. The horror. The grief. The calls to the Almighty. [...]
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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 [...]
Worldwide News Media Shows More Faked Photos
Once again the news media of the world is caught printing fake news and photographs. Last year alone, Reuters News was forced to admit that over a thousand of its news photos and stories in the last two years were false, faked or entirely staged to “create” news. (BFP [...]
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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 [...]
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“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 [...]
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Suppose You Google “Mia Mottley” While In Dubai Or China…
… or in San Francisco, Zurich or Madrid – it all comes back the same and the result was a big surprise to me.
Out of over twelve thousand returns on Google, articles from Barbados Free Press are #1 and #2. (!)
Wikipedia is #3, while articles from [...]
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“We spent about $2 million doing the marketing and promotion, producing literature and so on to send out to the companies, to attract them as well as in consultancy fees. We have made about BDS$8 million so far.” …former Minister Liz Thompson talking about the Oil Bidding Process in November 2007.
Where Did The “Consulting Fees” [...]
Yesterday at about 3:14:17pm, Barbados Free Press welcomed visitor number 3 million since we started our blog in January of 2006. Our special guest visited from Barbados – unlike visitor number 2 million who arrived from Switzerland on January 1, 2008.
Interesting visitor curve: 2 years to reach 2 million visitors, but only another 6 months [...]
We’re Doing Some IP Research…
Hi folks. As you will see when we post the article after this one, the death threats against Adrian Loveridge and others continue – so we are doing some research into the internet source of the death threats and look at the amazing coincidence that we found about IP Number 72.22.157.140…
The [...]
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Broadcasting BFP Radio Every Tuesday Morning
Hello Friends,
Welcome to the first programme at Barbados Free Press Radio as broadcast on YouTube. We’re looking into some other options including having an MP3 available for downloading as a podcast.
Shona (electronically enhanced) will be doing the reading.
Let us know what you think.
Take it [...]
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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. [...]
Who broke the story of Holetown Chefette being sold over a month before the Barbados newspapers?
Barbados West Coast Blog, that’s who!
We have a feeling that the writer of West Coast Blog might be in a different income level than the folks who live around Grape Hall, but just as it takes all of us to [...]
Barbados Underground Exclusive Interview: Barbados Light and Power Representative Talks About The Future
Last Sunday we listened to the pathetic squealing of “professional journalists” on Down To Brass Tacks radio show – complaining that the Barbados blogs are destroying newspaper advertising revenues and upsetting the media’s control over what people are allowed to know and talk [...]
Filed under Barbados, Blogging, Energy, Environment, Freedom Of The Press
“There was a time when the Attorney General moved from Attorney General to Chief Justice. That was a big deal. It was a very big deal. We’re still feeling the ramifications of that big deal today. And you guys (Barbados news media) were mum. You said little. You did little. And if you were challenged [...]
Looking around the net this morning we found some excellent articles – including some we really disagree with. Here’s a sampling…
Bajan Reporter has the story of a cowardly pit bull that is regularly beaten up by a chicken – but on another story we have to strongly disagree with Ian Bourne, who seems to admire [...]
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Blogging, Cricket, Crime & Law, Cuba
Bermuda Government Kills Advertising Contract With A Newspaper That Won’t Keep Quiet
The Bermuda Government has axed subscriptions and advertising contracts with The Royal Gazette – a newspaper that describes itself in this way…
“The Royal Gazette aims to cover the whole community fairly and accurately ands to act as an independent voice. It is not [...]
With our jaundiced “news” eyes, we and other media-literate bloggers are continually spotting the absurd lies that are published every day in the worlds so-called “legitimate” news media. (A cynic would point out that here on Barbados we have had much more practice than in some other countries in spotting horse-manure published as news!)
The [...]
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Original Song On YouTube – 16 Million Views – Guest Appearance On Jay Leno – Television Commercials
Tay Zonday is a 25 year-old Ph.D candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. In his spare time he records original songs and posts them on YouTube. Last July his YouTube song about racial prejudice “Chocolate Rain” [...]
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