Ginny thinks she’s watching a movie with her brother. She doesn’t know that the trailer is something else!
(Hey darlin’ – I know I didn’t make any movie trailer for you…
… but Auntie said she’ll collect up the boys for dinner on Monday evening. See you later!) 🙂
Filed under Spark of the Day!
PM Stuart talks “Global Sustainability” while destroying the last mangrove forest on the island
National Geographic VP John Francis fooled into thinking words equal action
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart just returned from the third Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability where he rubbed shoulders with Nobel prize winners and famous and not so famous environmentalists and world leaders.
Not only did PM Stuart attend the conference in Stockholm, Sweden – he played an active role with the UN High-level Panel on Global Sustainability and conducted an open discussion with the crowd. Former US President Bill Clinton listened to our Prime Minister quote Martin Luther King: “There is no deficit in human resources, the deficit is in human will.”
National Geographic quoted Freundel Stuart like he really meant what he said and would back it up with action.
We at Barbados Free Press say…
“Our plea to National Geographic: Come to Barbados and see the destruction for yourself. Examine the reality, then write. Don’t empower those who say fine words but are really selling out our natural environment for money.”
While Freundel Stuart mouthed his fine words, back home his Democratic Labour Party government is conducting a strategic campaign to destroy the last remaining mangrove forest on the island so it can be commercially developed. Money has always trumped the natural environment in Barbados and Stuart’s DLP is continuing the practice. Continue reading
Filed under Barbados, Barbados Tourism, Environment, Nature, Wildlife
