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The Fear Of The Growing Ethnic Factor, Real or Imagined?
Submitted by Yakubu While we must be a tolerant society, Bajans must understand that Hindu immigrants, with their high fertility rates, and their dislike of miscegenation with the Negro, have already ...
Rickford Burke President Of the Caribbean Guyana Institute For Democracy Clears The Air
I shall be happy if my letter can receive due prominence on your blog. I have read some of the comments on your blog, in response to statements attributed to me in a press release issued yesterday by ...
Pursuing The Immigration Matter
Submitted by Lindsay Holder The following articles were submitted to the local press for publication. To date, three of these articles have been published. There are status statements at the end of ...
Responsibility, Fairness And The Media In Reporting The Guyanese Illegal Immigrants Issue In Barbados
Submitted by Yardbroom Recent lurid details of a female illegal Guyanese immigrant being apprehended, was disseminated by a major Barbados news outlet. The allegations if true are worthy of investig...
Don’t Blame Swine Flu For Everything
Dear Mr. Swine Flu. I do not think I need to ask how you are doing, because, from all reports, you are wreaking havoc across the globe. Women, men, black, white, Jack Sprat and his wife; who is not so...
How Can It Help Barbados If Its Interests And Prosperity Are DEGRADED To Benefit Other CARICOM Countries?
Submitted by Yardbroom I am not against CARICOM if it is possible to achieve its main purpose which I understand to be: …”promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to...
Corrupt Officials And Politicians
Submitted by BU family member ROK I see in the news today a call by the USA for Leroy King, The CEO of Antigua and Barbuda’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission, to be held pending an ext...
The 2009 International One Metre World Championship Regatta In Barbados
Click on the image to follow the event live at the Boat Yard! How many Barbadians are aware that the Barbados Tourism Authority has been able to attract the 2009 International One Metre World Champion...
Response To Lindsay Holder’s Immigration Exposition
I do not intend to be lengthy in this critique to Mr. Lindsay Holder’s contribution in the Advocate newspaper of 14-15 June 2009 . I am well aware that each of us brings our biases to any project. I...
Is Barbados Being Sold Down The River By The Media and Opposition Party On The Immigration Issue?
Over the last couple years BU has articulated, we hope dispassionately, on the issue of the open immigration policy which was practiced by the previous government. At no time have we supported xenopho...
Political Symbolism
There are several questions being raised in the current climate as it relates to the future of CARICOM and the future of Caribbean regional integration. In some quarters it is felt that the momentum f...
CARICOM Under Threat
It is ironic that it is the Prime Minister of Jamaica Bruce Golding who has been reported to say ‘there are a number of things that are happening now that are destabilising and threatening the exist...
Barbados Tourism Executives Bungle Negotiations With Airlines
Submitted by Looking Glass An article receiving lots of exposure in US and Canadian travel publications quotes John Lynch as saying any destination which is focused on growing its business must ensur...
The Immigration Issue Exposes The Divide Between The Academics And The PEOPLE
Prime Minister David Thompson’s new immigration policy which addresses the vexing issue of undocumented CARICOM workers living in Barbados takes effect from today albeit a national holiday. The poli...
Levelling the Playing Field
At a time when various Caribbean Ministers of Government have recently met and agreed to levy yet another tax on intra Caribbean air travel, its time perhaps for them to contemplate exactly the effect...
Caribbean Tourism Organization – Shame On You
Submitted by Looking Glass Caribbean Week in New York, June 8-12, 2009 At a time when the global recession is wreaking havoc with Caribbean tourism and visitor arrivals are down, when hotel occupanc...
Who Is Guarding The Guard As LIME Continues Its Monopolistic Ways?
Barbados Underground is fortunate to have Roosevelt King (ROK) and Chris Halsall as members of the BU family. They are better known in Barbados for the role of Intervenors when the Fair Trading Comm...
The People’s Business Is Paramount
In is no secret that the world is facing an economic and financial crisis of an unprecedented nature. It is now well documented that the crisis was precipitated by the indiscipline fueled by greed pra...
Activists Highlight Stolen Ethiopian Treasures
Submitted by Seymour Mclean of AFROMET: UNESCO sponsors Africa Week which starts May 25 – 29, the submission is published in recognition of the struggle by Blacks to reclaim their heritage On 13...
Time To Rally Around Prime Minister David Thompson
Prime Minister David Thompson promised when he assumed office that he would established a Cabinet sub-committee to investigate the Immigration problem which was visibly evident in Barbados. In keepi...
What’s In A Name In Barbados: Trafalgar Square, Heroes Square, Parliament Square
Submitted by Yardbroom It has been reported that the Minister of Community Development and Culture Mr. Steve Blackett has proposed to redesign and rename Heroes Square so that the statue of Lord Nelso...
Why Doesn’t Ricky Singh And Norman Faria Come Home To Guyana?
Freddie Kissoon’s article reproduced from the Kaieteur newspaper During the seventies, when I was a UG student, I pointed out a criticism that was made against Professor Clive Thomas. I was youn...
Is CLICO Being Used As Target Practice?
The expected deal between CLICO Holdings Barbados Limited and Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited seems to have gone off the boil. Terse announcements from ICBL and CLICO suggest that both parti...
Government Of Barbados Addresses The Illegal Immigrant Issue
Prime Minister David Thompson issued a ministerial statement in parliament today regarding the immigration issue. For some time now it has been apparent to sensible Barbadians that the national securi...
CARICOM And The “Illusion” Of Leadership
Submitted by Yardbroom A commenter recently stated on Barbados Underground, in reference to the Conference of The Americas: They [ Heads of State ] recently unanimously passed a motion of no-confidenc...
Guyanese Welcome In Barbados Says Union Head Sir Leroy Trotman
Submitted by Guyana Consul Norman Faria The Consulate is deeply honoured and pleased to be once again assisting Guyanese workers to show friendship and solidarity with the Barbadian people and govern...
BDS$93.73 In Taxes
Submitted by Adrian Loveridge Book a month in advance and the taxes on a ONE-WAY ticket with LIAT to St. Lucia from Barbados amount to BDS$93.73 alone, and that doesn’t include the US$16.75 fuel and...
LIME Continues To Squeeze
It is company with a long history of association with the Caribbean which reaches to the period when the islands were colonies of the then British Empire. Having operated under the name Cable & Wi...
Re-Discover The Caribbean
The business of tourism has been affected by the global recession precipitated by skyrocketing energy cost and the inevitable meltdown in world economies. Air travel has now become a very expensive un...
Summit of the Americas Must Focus On Guyana’s Failing Democracy
Submitted by Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) [Port of Spain] The New York Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) is calling on the Obama administration to “strengthen relat...
