Barbados

IISD RS @ COP 14 and COP/MOP 4 Highlights, Monday, 1 December 2008 - Poznan, Poland

COP 13 President Rachmat Witoelar (Indonesia) opened the meeting, describing it as an important “bridge from Bali to Copenhagen.” UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer highlighted recent progress and the “assembly paper” from...

Wayne Rooney & Coleen Rooney buy £5million home in Barbados

Wayne Rooney and Coleen Rooney are reportedly having a £5million luxury holiday home built in the Caribbean. The couple are said to have picked the exclusive estate in Barbados after it was recommended by Wayne’s Manchester...

Brit kid uses kung-fu skills to floor machete-wielding raider!

London, Dec 1 (ANI): A teenager, who is an expert at kung-fu, proved to be too much of a match for a machete-wielding raider, who was threatening his little sister in their holiday flat. The crook barely escaped with his life...

Nigeria: Ankara Collections From Nitex 2008

Nigeria's eclectic fashion further received international glory recently when the first-ever Nigeria Tourism Expo, designed to promote tourism traffic and foreign investment in Nigeria, held its second and third edition of...

Barbados: Happy Independence

“There is a lot to be said about the shocking series of events in Mumbai that finally–too late–drew to a bloody and violent close”: Jamaican blogger Annie Paul may eventually get around to articulating her own feelings about...

Welcome to Wayne's world

THIS is the view Wayne and Coleen Rooney will get from the luxury £7m holiday home they are having built in Barbados - rolling emerald fairway, pristine bunkers and the blue Caribbean. The couple have bought a one-acre plot on...

First Uranium signs deal with Gold Wheaton

VANCOUVER — First Uranium Corp., a Toronto-based uranium company with gold operations, has signed a deal to sell gold output from its South African business to Gold Wheaton Gold Corp., a precious metals company focused on gold...

INDEPENDENCE DAY MESSAGE: Much to be proud of

by Mia Mottley, Leader of the Opposition Fellow Barbadians, as we celebrate our country's Independence, we have many achievements of which we can be proud. We have witnessed tremendous growth and development as a nation that...

Kuwaiti leadership congratulates Barbados on nat'l day

KUWAIT, Nov 30 (KUNA) -- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable of congratulations on Sunday to the Governor General of Barbados Clifford Husbands on the occasion of his country's national...

Who's who on honours list

At midnight last night, Government announced the 2008 Independence Day Honours List. Today we publish the names of those who received honours in the following categories: (a) Knight or Dame of St Andrew. (b) Companion of Honour...

               

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