Category Archives: Island Life
Private Barbados Tourism Impact Study highlights concerns with policing, environment and housing costs
Tourism Impacts – The Good, the Bad and the “Oh Oh” Amit Uttamchandani of Pull! Push! blog recently completed his online study of Resident Perceptions of Tourism Impacts in Barbados with over 400 people taking the time to participate. The … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Crime & Law, Environment, Island Life, Police, Tourism
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Barbados Tourism Impact Study, Royal Barbados Police Force
Nex Generation Magazine Looking For Bajan Writers
Nex Generation Magazine is a new publication dedicated to empowering the Caribbean family. Based in Jamaica, the magazine is keen to get stories from Barbados and several other English speaking Caribbean islands on issues that effect family life from a … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Island Life, Jamaica
Tagged as Barbados, Caribbean Family Life, Jamaica, Nex Generation Magazine
When Your Neighbours Take 3 Years To Build A House…
We are currently dealing with Town and Country Planning and hope to get satisfaction, but we would like to share our problem with any readers here. We built and occupied our small bungalow eight years ago, on a spot with … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Crime & Law, Island Life
Barbados Crop-Over Used To Be About This…
Crop-Over Used To Be A Time For Thanks And Celebration Wuking-Up was unheard of. Weeks would pass without seeing a motor car drive by Grape Hall. And at this time of the year folks would celebrate Crop-Over – but not … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Island Life, Religion
Courtesy …
Hey … unlike the people of Bim and the CWC, at least these fans were given the option to decline the rectal exam for their free tickets … Odd Baseball Promotion: Free Tickets For Fans Who Receive a Rectal Exam … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Cricket, Island Life
Does Bizzy Williams Know How To Party? For Sure!
Courtesy of Kadooment.com
Filed under Barbados, Island Life
Barbados In Focus Is At It Again
Some Folks Have The Eye, And Some Don’t Our photographer friend over at Barbados In Focus is blessed with talent. We have no idea who he is or if the rest of his life is beautiful or in chaos, but … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Island Life
Let Me Win, But If I Cannot Win, Let Me Be Brave In The Attempt
Well Folks, Just received a letter from a reader, chastising us for failing to mention the Special Olympics events that have been taking place over the last week and a half. I could make excuses about the World Cup occupying … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Island Life
Sweet Little Girl Needs Surgery To Correct Cleft Lip – Barbados Hospital Won’t Operate Unless Paid Up Front
All Kinds Of Government Money For Cricket, Flyovers & Election Bribery House Painting – But None For Nicollet SHOW ME where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what is important to you. That goes for any government too … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Health, Island Life, Politics & Corruption
Lives of The Rich and Unfaithful In Barbados: Holders Plantation House and Those Wacky Kidds!
Really, Darling, I must sell the polo ponies and leave my wife for a Hollywood showgirl who is younger than our daughter … Bye the way, Darling, we must set aside the country mansion for the weekend so members of … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, History, Island Life
Contemporary Slavery In Haiti… And Around The World
Lest We Forget… A few excerpts from an archived 2004 BBC WorldService special (link here) that I listened to last week. Unbelievable on one level sitting at your kitchen table with your family. Once again, I thank God that I … Continue reading →
Filed under Africa, Barbados, Crime & Law, Culture & Race Issues, History, Island Life, Politics & Corruption, Religion
Barbados Death Boat – Mass Burial Brings Us Together
Ten unnamed travellers from Senegal who set out to make new lives and help their families back home ended their sad journey on Wednesday when they were buried in a joint Muslim – Christian ceremony. Some 40 others who perished … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Culture & Race Issues, History, Island Life
How About Urban Vegetable Gardens For Barbados?
Temas Blog Tells Of Urban Gardening Experiment In Venezuela As most of our BFP readers know, we’re not big fans of dictatorships, communist governments or cradle to grave socialism. Nor do we support social structures that destroy individual initatives and … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Environment, Island Life
Barbadosed Boy Lonely On A Friday Night – Shoots Cat
New semester. Way ahead in my reading. Been working too hard and January is not yet finished. Did you know that “Barbadosed” use to be a verb? I feel that way. (Look it up here) I’m taking a well earned … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Island Life
Barbados Advocate Deliberately Erases The Past – “Disappears” Water Park Article!
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” “And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Blogging, History, Island Life, News Media, Offshore Investments, Politics & Corruption
Barbados Sanitation Service Authority – “Friends Are Coming, Let’s Clean This Place Up”
January 29th – Get Rid Of Old Appliances, Mother-In-Law etc. We received this press release from the Sanitation Service Authority about a big pickup of appliances and other large items – to happen on Monday, January 29th. We think it … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Environment, Island Life
Barbados Music Awards Need A Little Credibility Boost
The Bajan Reporter blog continues asking questions about the judging process of the Barbados Music Awards – and the bloggers aren’t the only ones raising eyebrows. According to Ian Bourne at Bajan Reporter, some Barbados entertainers are grumbling too. Like … Continue reading →
Filed under Barbados, Island Life, Politics & Corruption
Blogging Around Barbados: BIM Has A Tough Day, Downtown Smells, and Sir Roy Says “Make Sure Your Local Merchant Has Dark-Enough Skin”
I have been lazy lately and didn’t post this last night even though I promised the others that I would put something up. Didn’t even get to church on Sunday let alone to the big ceremony. Too tired. My other … Continue reading →
