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.
Garfield’s might just be the only place in the city that would look equally at home in Barbados, but the menu is eclectic here, featuring French, Italian and American fare, with hints of North Africa and Asia along the way.
BARBADOS’ ONLY CRICKET MUSEUM is going down under. The Cricket Legends Of Barbados Inc. has renovated the basement of its Herbert House headquarters with designs of permanently moving the museum, the memorabilia and its artefacts downstairs within the next two months.
Nearly five months after Ottawa’s Terry Schwarzfeld was killed during a robbery on a Barbados beach, the preliminary hearing for the man accused in her death was set to begin Monday.
The increased enforcement highlights deep economic divisions in a region where poor Dominicans, Haitians and Jamaicans seek better lives on more affluent islands such as the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbados.
The increased enforcement highlights deep economic divisions in a region where poor Dominicans, Haitians and Jamaicans seek better lives on more affluent islands such as the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbados.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Residents in The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands were yesterday warned that they should follow the path of a tropical wave that had the potential for further development over the next two days.