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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Barbados Underground suggests that the doctor who examined the minor brutalised by Guyana police “was complicit in the torture…the concealment of a crime against humanity and…he possibly committed obstruction of justice.”
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Barbados Free Press and Barbados Underground question the vision of the island being transformed into another Monaco.
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Barbados is the least corrupt among nine Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries surveyed by Transparency International (TI) in its Corruption Perception Index (CPI) this year.
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
International credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's has lowered Barbados' outlook from stable to negative and warned of a further downgrade if government doesn't take steps the right steps to reverse the current situation.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
“it is most regrettable when an officer or former officer of the law becomes a crime victim”: Keltruth Corp. is saddned to learn of the death of Barbados' oldest surviving police officer.
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I Thought a Think (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Watch this, then make a firm resolution to yourself that we won't allow the coming debate in Washington State to go that direction.
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The Barbados government is moving swiftly to have the much-touted Financial Services Commission, (FSC) in place by next year.
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Barbados government has agreed to hire a consultant to seek new areas of employment for Barbadians overseas.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
“Jamaica's government kicked up a terrific stink with Standard and Poor's (S&P) after the rating agency again downgraded the country's debt”: Living in Barbados wonders how “Barbados' normally more polite and circumspect politicians” will react to more downgrades.
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
NATIONAL indoor skipper Kelly Billingy will be making her regional debut on the sand today when Trinidad and Tobago will be represented by six pairs in the second and final leg of the Sizzling Sand Beach Volleyball Series in Barbados.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Barbadian bloggers are all over the story of a man claiming “he woke up in the morgue of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after being declared dead”: Barbados Free Press: “It would be nice if Barbados reporters started asking some questions instead of ingesting and regurgitating whatever garbage is tossed their way”; Barbados Underground: “The bigger [...]
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As Trinidad and Tobago's National Security Minister makes an inaccurate statement about the processing time for machine-readable passports, B.C. Pires is irritated that the media did not ask questions: “I’ve seen Trinidadians in action so I understand ‘boldfacity'. I don’t understand the people on the other side going along with the lie; because they are [...]
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Former Deputy Governor at the Barbados Central Bank, Dr DeLisle Worrell, has returned to the institution to take up the post as its sixth Governor.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
“We seem determined to deny our history, rather than learn from it. Why else would we, who have been so wounded by the whip, venerate it'” B.C. Pires puts in his two cents' worth on the recent flogging of schoolchildren in Barbados.