Moody’s downgrades Barbados bond rating to brink of junk (This doesn’t sound good to us)

How much did that Cricket Party cost us?

Was it half a billion or a billion? I’ve forgotten, and I’ve forgotten what fun it was too!
Barbados Gets A Downgrade
Barbados may have gotten a high quality of living stamp but its bond rating was yesterday downgraded to the brink of junk.
Moody`s Investors Service on Tuesday lowered [...]

What Henry Kissenger and the FBI knew about Cubana Flight 455 Bombing

33 years after the terror bombing of a Cuban airliner, the United States continues to protect the guilty
On October 6, 1976, anti-Castro terrorists murdered seventy-three people on Cubana Flight 455 off Barbados.
Declassified letters and reports (like below from FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley to Henry Kissenger) show that the United States Government knew [...]

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 the gullies, there will be a piece in the Barbados Advocate about the bleaching of coral [...]

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 it?”
Our friends over at Mullins Bay Blog have the story: Owner hits the Internet to clear up [...]

Barbados Police Allow Thieves To Take Home Stolen Fish – No Charges

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Poachers Caught and Released by Police
On Saturday, August 15, 2009, a group of about 15 fisherman were found in the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary fishing illegally for its rare tarpon, the largest and most popular exhibit fish in the Graeme [...]

Barbados Police Again Fail To Uphold Law At Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary & RAMSAR Protected Wetlands

Barbados Deliberately Neglects Enforcement of Wildlife Laws on RAMSAR Treaty Protected Wetlands
On Saturday August 15, Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary personnel reported at least 15 people boldly fishing in broad daylight from the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary boardwalk.
The Royal Barbados Police Force were called but as usual they didn’t respond for hours. I guess the [...]

BICO Ice-Cream Complex Fire – Million dollars or more damage

Much of the BICO dairy complex was destroyed in a major fire last night.
What a tragedy for BICO employees and their families. No time would be a good time for a fire, but the world economy and job market are pretty tough right now.
Many of our visitors from North America or the UK will not [...]

Will Canadian Philanthropist Peter Allard Take Over Failing Barbados Tourist Attraction Ocean Park?

“We have run out of funds needed to push forward to a sustainable position.”
… Ocean Park manager Tracy Johnson
Ocean Park Aquarium Shutting Down August 30, 2009
The Barbados marine exhibition known as Ocean Park has been dying a slow death and bleeding investors since shortly after it opened in 2005. Everyone had hopes that the tourist [...]

Barbados Government Continues Cover-up In Archcot Building Collapse Deaths – Five Killed and No Inquest!

Home Affairs Minister Freundel Stuart continues cover-up of Codrington family deaths
“Government will be demolishing three properties at Archcot Terrace Britton’s Hill St Michael, as it moves to get the area to return to normalcy. This is in the wake of the collapse of apartment buildings there in August 2007.
Home Affairs Minister, Freundel Stuart says [...]

Barbados Government Steals 2/3 Of Parkland For Developer Friends – Graeme Hall Environmental Disaster Continues

After being elected in January, 2008 one of the first acts of the David Thompson DLP Government was to change the law protecting 265 acres of parkland at Graeme Hall to allow developer friends to profit from these public lands. To make this happen, David Thompson and the DLP Members of Parliament had to set [...]

Cover-Up In Barbados: Inquest Into Deaths Of Hugh Springer & I’Akobi Maloney – But No Inquest Into Codrington Family Deaths

Too Many Big Names Involved So No Inquest Called: Family Died When Home Collapsed Into Known Cave
An inquest, however unsatisfactory, was held into the death of I’Akobi Maloney while in police custody. An inquest has been announced into the death of Hugh Springer – an innocent passerby shot in the back of the head by [...]

Swine Flu Cruise Ship Refused By Grenada – Heading For Barbados… Now What?

UPDATE: Ocean Dream Denied Barbados Entry – 43 Crew Ill With “Flu-like” Symptoms
A LUXURY CRUISE LINER carrying 43 crew members exhibiting “flu-like symptoms” was denied entry into the Bridgetown Port yesterday. (snip)
When contacted, Minister of Health Donville Inniss said: “The situation was drawn to our attention this afternoon [yesterday] that the vessel was heading to [...]

Shell Pays Up In Nigerian Human Rights & Ken Saro-Wiwa Execution Case

In the lawsuit, the families of the Ogoni nine alleged Shell conspired with the military government to capture and hang the men. Shell was also accused of a series of other alleged human rights violations, including working with the army to bring about killings and torture of Ogoni ­protesters.
The company was alleged to have provided [...]

Barbados Death Boat Inquest Starts – Senegal Migrants Starved When Abandoned By Smugglers

“I would like to send to my family in Bassada (a town in western Senegal) a sum of money. Please excuse me and goodbye. This is the end of my life in this big Moroccan sea,”
… victim Diao Souncar Dieme wrote his goodbyes. (Times Online: Mystery of death boat that drifted 3,000 miles off [...]

Swine Flu A Laboratory Creation Let Wild? World Health Organization Launches Serious Investigation After Roche Tamiflu Scientist Report

Tamiflu Scientist Adrian Gibbs Says Swine Flu Might Be Lab Escape
From Bloomberg.com …

Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim (Update1)
By Jason Gale and Simeon Bennett
May 13 (Bloomberg) — The World Health Organization is investigating a claim by an Australian researcher that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created [...]

Barbados Cave-In Deaths: Codrington Family Cries Out – Wants Justice, Not Cover-Up

No Inquest Called: Family Died When Home Collapsed Into Known Cave
There are many villains who must bear responsibility for the deaths of an entire Barbados family whose members died after their house fell into a collapsing cave at Arch Cot. Horrifically, we know that members of the Codrington family did not die all at the [...]

Harry Roberts Says Goodbye To Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary… Hello Banks Beer! (Can’t be all bad)

Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary, one of Barbados’ premier natural treasures and tourist destinations, is shut down and going to waste due to the corrupt relationship between government elites and their land developer friends. Among the hundred or so employees leaving is sanctuary manager Harry Roberts. We received this press release from the sanctuary a week [...]

Shell Oil Pollutes And Runs In Barbados. After 15 Years Government Has The Answer: Committee Of Politicians

1/ Fifteen Years Ago, Shell Spilled At Least A Half A Million Gallons Of Jet Fuel Into The Barbados Water Table. Shell Has Not Cleaned Up The Spill Or Compensated The Immediate Victims

2/Barbados South Coast Water Table Is Contaminated By Jet Fuel. Our Beaches Are At Risk.

3/ After 15 Years, It Is Now A Proven [...]

Seasonal Flu Samples Shipped To Vaccine Manufacturer Were Contaminated With Live Avian Flu Virus (Bird Flu Virus)

Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus
By Helen Branswell, THE CANADIAN PRESS
The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses.
And an official of the World Health Organization’s European operation said the body is closely monitoring the investigation into the [...]

Barbados Government Cover-Up – No Inquest Into Codrington Family Deaths – Home Collapsed Into Known Cave

(click on photo to download 500k pdf article)
Another Major Article Appears In Barbados Advocate Newspaper
The Barbados Advocate newspaper has published another major article on the August, 2007 deaths of five members of the Codrington family. The couple and three of their children died when their home collapsed into a known cave as they slept.
The majority [...]

How The Barbados Government Is Stealing Graeme Hall National Park From Our Children – With The Help Of The News Media – Part 1

The only difference with the DLP government passing this “urban corridor” instead of the BLP government is that now the DLP friends will profit from the move instead of the BLP friends.
CLICO Will Develop On The Natural Heritage Conservation Area – With Prime Minister Thompson’s Blessing
One of the first actions taken by the Thompson DLP [...]

Barbados Advocate (Finally) Publishes Prof. Machel’s Investigation Of Arch Cot Cave-In Deaths

I then submitted this letter for publication to both THE BARBADOS ADVOCATE and THE DAILY NATION. Neither of them dared to print my submission, even though one of them had at first indicated to me in no unmistaken terms that they were intent on printing it word-for-word in their Jan 30  edition. I have [...]

Former Barbados Government Minister Liz Thompson Writes BFP – “I deny that I was involved in any way” with Arch Cot Collapse

The following comment which purports to be from former BLP Government Minister Liz Thompson was posted today on our previously published story Readers Say Barbados Arch Cot Cave-In Construction Was A C.O. Williams – Gregory Hazzard Project For Liz Thompson. We at BFP will save our comments until after the submission by (apparently) Liz Thompson [...]

Ping Yark Hammers Barbados Government – Online Petition Demands Inquest Into Codrington Family Cave-In Deaths

Worldwide Online Petition Calls Upon Barbados Government To Hold An Inquest
The February, 2009 issue of the U.K. basted (or based?) Bajan newsletter Ping Yark is out and can be downloaded in PDF format here. (3.9mb)
Although still full of the naughty humour and cartoons you’ve come to expect from this irreverent offering, the latest comes down [...]

Readers Say Barbados Arch Cot Cave-In Construction Was A C.O. Williams – Gregory Hazzard Project For Liz Thompson

FEBRUARY 28, 2009 UPDATED: Former Barbados Government Minister Liz Thompson Writes BFP – “I deny that I was involved in any way” with Arch Cot Collapse
“Barbados Free Press, this is the second time I am asking you to publish my comments. You very quickly published lies about my association with Arch Cot but I cannot [...]

Barbados Newspapers Refuse To Print Letter Revealing Secret Government Report Into Cave-In Deaths. Professor Machel Will Name Names

“I found out many more things that the public has a right to know but that have been hidden so far. I encountered an atmosphere of frustration and intimidation, nourished especially under the previous BLP government. I met several individuals who were afraid to speak out for fear of loosing their jobs, bodily harm, or [...]

Barbados Environment Minister Denis Lowe, DLP Government – Plan To Build On Graeme Hall Wetlands

We were sitting around as usual on Friday having a few beers and solving all the world’s problems over a late lunch when Robert asked the question, “Can someone tell me one positive environmental action actually accomplished in the first year of the Thompson administration?”
After some scratching of heads we were unable to come up [...]

Barbados Awards Oil Rights To Company Responsible For Worst Environmental Mining Disaster!

“Every (year) over the past twenty years, the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has dumped 80,000 tons of waste into the Ok Tedi and Fly Rivers. The result has been an environmental disaster that has destroyed thousands of square kilometers of rainforest and caused terrible hardship for local people…

Australian mining giant BHP [...]

Taking A Break From Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic: Mugabes’ US$92,000 Weekend Fashion Spree!

What’s The Use Of Being First Lady Of Zimbabwe If You Can’t Buy A US$3,000 Purse Once In A While?
You know how it is… all that cholera and famine is just sooooooo depressing that one must simply take a break from the white colonist oppressors who are causing the national crisis for Zimbabwe. And what [...]

Expert: Barbados Apartment Collapse Deaths Were Caused By Gross Negligence. Why No Coroner’s Inquest?

Cover-Up By Barbados Government, Police & Coroner
Professor Hans Machel, a specialist in earth and atmospheric sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada, says that the Arch Cot apartment collapse that killed five of the Codrington family was caused by “gross negligence” of people who could probably be identified by a properly-conducted inquest. He said that [...]

Barbados Boycotts Abusive Irresponsible Oil Company: TO HELL WITH SHELL!

Boycott Barbados Shell Stations!
We the People, Declare…

1/ Fifteen Years Ago, Shell Spilled At Least A Half A Million Gallons Of Jet Fuel Into The Barbados Water Table. Shell Has Not Cleaned Up The Spill Or Compensated The Immediate Victims
For the last fifteen years, since 1994,  Shell Oil has been avoiding responsibility for a pipeline leak [...]

How Much Did It Cost Shell Oil To Buy Two Barbados Governments? Without Election Financing Laws, We’ll Never Know

Fifteen Years Of Shell Pollution + Fifteen Years Of Shell Campaign Donations = Environmental Rape
There is no question that Shell Oil bought and paid for two successive Barbados governments. How else can we explain the actions of both the BLP and DLP governments in allowing this negligent and abusive company to walk away free from [...]

Caves Of Barbados: Wonders and Dangers Underground – Expert To Talk About Apartment Collapse Into Cave

Professor Hans G. Machel Featured At Barbados Museum & Historical Society Evening
“Straight-talking, outspoken and entertaining” would be an accurate description of Professor Hans G. Machel, so his presentation next Wednesday, January 14, 2009 should be a smasher – especially since his talk will include information about the Codrington family who died when their home fell [...]

Large Dangerous Snake Alert In Barbados: “DO NOT allow your children to venture into the gullies…”

“I urge the Mt. Hillaby residents to exercise caution in remote areas, and DO NOT allow your children to venture into the gullies that surround you without an adult – and certainly not at night.”
16 Foot Burmese Python Foolishly Released Into Barbados Gullies
Barbados Free Press Article by Damon Gerard Corrie
Caribbean Herpetological Society
I did not intend [...]

Was Corrupt Barbados Police Sargeant Paul Vaughan Extorting Bribes From Codrington Family’s DVD Store?

Way back in August of 2007, Barbados lost an entire family as their apartment collapsed into a giant cave. Once a response got moving (which took some five hours) rescuers tried their best, but five bodies were eventually pulled from the hole. Dead were Cassandra Codrington 27 years old, Donavera 30 years old (husband), Shaquonda [...]

Not A Single Chartered Engineer In The Entire Barbados Civil Service!

“Do you know the principal reason why Barbados is experiencing so many flooding problems in 2008?  Perhaps this can help. In the 1970’s there were several Chartered Engineers working in the Ministry of Public Works. Today, there is not a single Chartered Engineer in the entire Civil Service of Barbados. It is a lack of [...]

Safety First: Barbados Government Does The Right Thing

Cracks At Wilkie
CRACKS have been found at Wilkie Cumberbatch Primary School and the Ministry of Education has decided to relocate the students and teachers.
Minister of Education Ronald Jones said yesterday the ministry was taking no chances with the “superficial cracks” found in the eastern block, and will be relocating the students so that remedial work [...]