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• High Freight Costs Blame For Weak Caribbean Growth

  
  Bajan Global Report — Authority: 127
  A new report that explores the reasons for weak growth in Latin American and the Caribbean have blamed high transportation costs for undermining trade and having harmful impacts on the productivity of the entire economy. It says the region’s ports aren’t efficient enough either. The Inter-American Development Bank ...
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• UNICEF Study – Rising Child Sexual Abuse In Eastern Caribbean

  
  Bajan Global Report — Authority: 127
  A landmark study on child sexual abuse in the Eastern Caribbean has discovered that the problem is escalating in the sub-region and identified emerging forms of abuse, including the use of boys in an organised network to service cruise ship passengers.The first of its kind study in the region, commissioned by UNICEF ...
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• Bus vs taxi?

  
  Cruise Critic Message Boards — Authority: 178
  Well be on Barbados in a couple of weeks. We want to visit The Washington House. From what Ive read it sounds like the Barbados Museum and St. Michaels Church are both nearby. Can we easily walk to all three if we get dropped off by taxi or take the bus? From there we would like to visit a beach and enjoy a drink ...
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• Rihanna flew around the world for new album

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Nov 27 (IANS) Singer Rihanna has revealed she jetted all over the globe to find inspiration for her new album “Rated R”.The Barbados-born singer was determined to make her fourth studio album her best yet and she discovered her influences for the same while travelling the world to find talented ...
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• Happy Friday: Dubai State Corporation defaults on interest payments, Barbados borrows another couple of hundred million US$

  
  Barbados Free Press — Authority: 497
  Fire Sale on Dubai Condos! Real estate developments are collapsing and the markets are shivering as Dubai World announced yesterday that it is unable to meet interest payments. British Banks immediately lost almost 14 billion pounds in value on fears they are exposed by their Dubai investments. (Times Online ...
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• Professing To Know About Financial Regulation: A Bajan In The Lead

  
  Living in Barbados — Authority: 421
  Barbados is fortunate to count among its current citizens several very talented economists. Im lucky to know a few of them as friends. Peoples eyes pop at the kudos that flows to this small island from Rihannas successes on the world stage, with or without provocative glimpses of her body and with or without more ...
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• Vita Chambers Upcoming Barbadoss Singer Interview

  
  UwidoNews - Submitted news — Authority: 171
  Vita Chambers is an upcoming rocker from Barbados She had her music uploaded on MySpace
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• Win The Race – Ruin Your Health?

  
  Bajan Global Report — Authority: 127
  Pushing it to the limit during exercise increases ones chance of breaking down with the flu, and with Swine Flu among us this year is it worth the risk? Individuals who take part in running races have higher flu and injury rates than their counterparts who trained for the race but did not run it [...]
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• WHO/Big Pharma Link In Swine Flu Scam?

  
  Bajan Global Report — Authority: 127
  Danish journalists who expertly examined the links between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, who gained wealth by selling drugs to counter the disease have reached the conclusion that the Swine Flu Pandemic may be the most ambitious scam and corruption of our time. ...
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• Iran Seizes Nobel Winner Shirin Edabi’s Medal

  
  Bajan Global Report — Authority: 127
  Iran has confiscated the Nobel peace medal and diploma of Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer who is one of the hardline regime’s most outspoken critics. Her bank account has also been frozen on the pretext that she owes almost £250,000 in tax.The seizure of the award, unprecedented in its 108-year history, ...
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• British Government’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) Causes Airline Cancellations

  
  Barbados Underground — Authority: 473
  ‘Industry insiders are worried it could add to the 76 routes already cancelled since March last year.’According to Ryanair’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, ‘Gordon Brown’s tourism tax will see Britain lose over 10 million passengers, 10,000 airport jobs and more than UK Pounds 2.5 billion in tourism ...
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• We Support Paradise FM

  
  Barbados Underground — Authority: 473
  Recently there was an exchange on a BU blog which debated the merits and demerits of issuing a TV license to the Starcom Network. Perhaps there is another debate which Barbadians need to have as it relates to the tedium an applicant to the Barbados Broadcasting Authority (BBA) to procure a broadcasting license must ...
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• Do Good Things Come To Those Who Wait?

  
  Living in Barbados — Authority: 421
  I love the fact that a public debate on economic issues is now going on that involves a good number of people who call themselves professionals in the field. I have said on several occasions that I felt that those who should be able to engage well on this topic seemed to have decided that relative silence was the line ...
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• How much will holidays cost in the next 2 years?

  
  The Last Minute Travel Fact Center — Authority: 128
  There are going to be some obstacles placed in our ways when we prepare to go on our holidays, and it’s not the environment. Is putting prices up really going to save the environment, or is it just going to get people all riled up, clearly Brown knows he can’t win any popularity contests now. Mr Brown knows that ...
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• Glass bottom boats to see turtles - details please!

  
  Cruise Critic Message Boards — Authority: 178
  Ill be traveling with two other adults and my two year old son and would like to take a glass bottom boat out to see the turtles and shipwreck. This way, two adults could snorkel while the other adult and DS could still see the turtles and fish through the glass bottom of the boat. Ive read through several threads ...
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• Paradise FM has been waiting 74 months to get a decision from the Government of Barbados re: Broadcasting License

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 434
  You can find Paradise FM on Facebook . Please show your support by emailing the Prime Ministers office! Mr Terry Bent - Having finally calmed down from speaking to the Secretary of the Broadcasting Authority yesterday, I can now give you the latest update on our progress, or lack thereof. Paradise FM Ltd ...
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• HEALTHWISE - Barbadian Chiropractor Dr Dawn Maddalone: "Win the race, ruin your health"

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 434
  Pushing it to the limit during exercise increases ones chance of breaking down with the flu, and with Swine Flu among us this year is it worth the risk? Individuals who take part in running races have higher flu and injury rates than their counterparts who trained for the race but did not run it according to current ...
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• "Caribbean Curatorship and National Identity" - November 29th to December 2nd, 2009

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 434
  CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS NATIONAL IDENTITY Caribbean Curatorship and National Identity is the theme of an exciting conference being held in Barbados November 29th to December 2nd, 2008 at the Accra Beach Hotel, Christ Church. Caribbean Curatorship and National Identity will examine how history is interpreted ...
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• BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS EXTENDED FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-2011

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 434
  The deadline for applying to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Chevening Scholarship scheme has been extended to 31 December 2009. Would-be postgraduate students from Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean who are looking for funding for their courses of study have an extra month in which they can make ...
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• Understanding Reverse Mortgages - What every Senior Citizen should know

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 434
  “ Understanding Reverse Mortgages ” was a panel discussion hosted by the Barbados Association of Retired Persons ( BARP ), and everyone agrees it was a resounding success. Scores of persons packed the lecture hall of the University of West Indies to hear expert panelists speak on the benefits of this financial ...
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