During a recent conversation with longtime friend Esther Tross, a Guyanese-American who’s active in Brooklyn’s civic, community and political scene, our talk turned to politics.
During a recent conversation with longtime friend Esther Tross, a Guyanese-American who’s active in Brooklyn’s civic, community and political scene, our talk turned to politics.
Scientists have found a rare species of algae that is tolerant of stressful environmental conditions and that proliferated in Caribbean corals when the corals’ more-sensitive algae were being expelled during the sea-temperature warming of 2005. The research is one of the first times that anyone has had the opportunity to conduct a community-wide study of corals and algae before, during and after …
TOURISM STAKEHOLDERS are going all out to ensure the United Kingdom market remains vibrant. For the past few days the Barbados Tourism Authority has been feting travel agents from that market, giving them first-hand information of the product they have been selling.
West Indian cricket has plummeted the depths of self-destruction, greed and incompetence.
Scientists take advantage of ‘experiment of nature’ to discover new insights into coral bleaching.
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine Supreme Court has upheld the government’s $150 million deal with a Barbados-based firm to automate the 2010 general election, dismissing a petition from a lawyers’ group to cancel the contract.
TWO OF BARBADOS’ most celebrated senior athletes, Pearl Yearwood and David Craigwell, recently returned home from a successful outing at the Summer National Senior Games in San Francisco, California, last month.
BUSINESSMAN Desmond Blades, former chairman of the Musson Group of companies, is dead. He was 80 years old. The Barbados-born Blades, who had made Jamaica his home, died Wednesday night in the United Kingdom where he was on vacation. He was ailing from colon cancer.
It must be a slow news day at the Torygraph. Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand took his family on a £400 caravan break in North Wales, snubbing more expensive holidays to St Tropez, New York or Barbados.