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This Resort Is the Best Dive Destination in The Bahamas, With Shark Encounters, Blue Holes, Coral Walls, and No Crowds

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The boat leaves the marina and heads into open Bahamian water. Below the surface, the bottom falls away into a wall, reef sharks pass through the blue and the visibility stretches far beyond the edge of the dive group. On another excursion, the destination is a blue hole. On another, a wreck. At night, the […]

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Barbados PM Stuart Heads to China

Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart (BGIS) Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart began a one-week official visit in China yesterday, accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxine McClean and other officials. Stuart is set to sign two bilateral agreements with China, along with discussing sustainable energy, infrastructure and education. The visit comes after a high-profile visit […]

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New Jamaica-Barbados Controversy

Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding (JIS Photo) Following the controversial treatment of a Jamaican national at Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados, Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding questioned the alleged detention of a Caribbean Airlines plane in Barbados. “What I am told took place two days ago when a Caribbean Airlines plane was held up,” he […]

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Barbados PM Adjusts Cabinet

Clockwise from left: Freundel Stuart, Denis Kellman and Denis Lowe Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has modified his Cabinet, giving himself the additional responsibility of Urban Development, while retaining two ministers, Denis Kellman and Denis Lowe. Kellman has been given the responsibility of the Ministry of Rural Development, and Lowe is the country’s Environment Minister. […]

New Jamaica-Barbados Controversy

 Caribbean governments are encouraging citizens to plant their own gardens, in an effort to mitigate the impact of soaring food prices. Beatrice Buchanan, who lives in Kingston, Jamiaca, said her new garden is helping her to combat rising costs of food. “Believe me, if I didn’t’ start up this garden I’d be sruggling a lot […]

U.N.: Caribbean Foreign Direct Investment Fell 18 Percent in 2010

ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile By the Caribbean Journal staff A report released yesterday showed Latin America with a larger increase in foreign direct investment than any other region last year, but the Caribbean did not fare as well, according to the U.N.’s Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean. While Haiti saw a […]

Inter-American Development Bank Begins Barbados Visit

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Eleven counsellors of the Inter-American Development Bank are in Barbados looking at local projects funded by the bank. Representatives of the bank, which last week warned that the region was in danger of significant effects from rising food prices, are meeting with Barbados’ Housing and Neighborhood Upgrading Programme and the […]

Barbados PM Stuart Discusses Impact of Osama Bin Laden's Death

 The Barbadian government has responded to the death of Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden with caution, following the country’s historical foreign policy of “friends of all, satellites of none.” Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said he hoped the situation would resolve itself quickly, and that the global political fallout would not be too great. “Barbados does […]

Four Seasons Project Restart Leading Renewed Foreign Investment in Barbados

 Four Seasons Residences, Clearwater Bay, Barbados A slew of new projects in Barbados, including at Four Seasons, Beachlands, Cost-U-Less and Fort Ferdinand, could mean a big boost in foreign investment in Barbados, according to Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler. “People have held back on their investments but we are now beginning to see a slow […]

Barbados Chamber of Commerce Signs Agreement with Prince Edward Island

 Andy Armstrong, president of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce Following the Bahamas’ lead in looking to Canada for investment opportunity, the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry signed a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday with the Chamber of Commerce of the Greater Charlottetown Area, which is in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. “What we […]

Barbados Tourism Board Looks to Rihanna

 Barbados’s Board of Tourism is looking to capitalize on international music star Rihanna’s Bajan heritage, with the board’s new chairman, Adrian Elcock, saying a Barbados appearance by the singer must happen on his watch. “We have to have a relationship with Rihanna,” he said. “Rihanna has to do a concert in Barbados at some point […]

Former Barbados PM Owen Arthur: Caribbean Integration Essential

 Removing trade barriers is “essential” for the advancement of the Bahamian economy, former prime minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, has said. “The Bahamas can play an integral role in the development of the Caribbean region and the economies of its member states if they understand and maximize their full potential in the ways they can […]