St. Lucy project launched

"St. Lucy project launched

6/20/2010

The Pickering Housing and Town Centre development project launched yesterday in Pickering, St. Lucy will generate US $800 million in revenue and stimulate the social and economic development of the entire northern section of Barbados.

Delivering the feature address at the groundbreaking ceremony of one section of the centre, Pickering Court, Prime Minister David Thompson said that this project, conducted under North Ridge Development Company Ltd., will bring “enormous benefits at a time when foreign investment is desperately needed”.

“This project will generate US$800 million of which US$500 million will be from sales to non-residents. The project will employ 600 persons at the peak of construction and provide sustainable employment opportunities to support residential and business aspects of the development,” said Prime Minister Thompson.

He said that this private sector investment by local and overseas investors is one of the largest residential projects to be undertaken on the island..."

Read more - The Barbados Advocate - St. Lucy project launched

What's with Rihanna's hair ... again?

Photo courtesy DailMail.co.uk

"After their performances at last night's Capital FM Summertime Ball it was a quick change of clothing for Rihanna and Pixie Lott before they headed off to Mahiki for a star-studded afterparty.
But Rihanna, who wore a futuristic-looking white top over a black leotard and fishnet tights on stage, was unusually coy about what she was wearing, covering up in a large black pashmina as she arrived at the London nightclub. 
Perhaps coming from Barbados, the singer was feeling the cold in London..."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1284582/Its-cover-Rihanna-strangely-shy-singer-loses-limelight-daring-Pixie-Lott-Summertime-Ball-afterparty.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz0qAYyP6oD
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: The real thing

Click here =>> Fisherman held hostage by pirates | NationNews - Barbados

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Things Just Got Interesting In Jamaica & Trinidad

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Happy Mother's Day

Proud mom, Juls, shows off her Mother's Day frock next to her shiny car

"Sometimes the census man comes round to count the population,
And mother always says to him: "housewife's my occupation".
But housewife means a lot of things, at least it does to mother..."

Unfortunately, those are the only lines I can still remember from a poem I had to learn and recite for a Mother's Day Sunday School Program when I was a child of about 7 or 8 years old.  It went on to list several things that mothers do as housewives, some of them quite herculean in scope.  My own mother passed away several years ago but her presence is still enduring in a lot of ways.  So to mothers everywhere I say Happy Mother's Day - whatever that means to you.

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Picture Perfect Mullins Beach Barbados

Mullins Beach, Barbados May 6,2010 (click image to enlarge)

So, I was "liming" on the breakwater after eating my lunch at Mullins Beach yesterday and snapped the above photo of what still is for this blogger what is truly one of my favorite spots on the planet.  It probably has something to do with the fact that I was born just across the road from this location on a spot now occupied by a "LIME" (the main telecommunications company on the island) - no pun intended.  Back then the whole area was still called Bayfield after the sugar plantation which owned the lands.  But beyond being around where my navel string was buried it always brings a sense of pride when the tour buses and cabs slow down so others from all over the world can catch a glimpse of this magical location.  It remains one of the last locations on the west coast of Barbados where one can peek at the white coral sands and the world famous Barbados Blue Caribbean Sea from Route 1 which was the main "highway" on the island up to about twenty years ago.

Double murder shocks Grenadian district

"A double murder, one of the most gruesome killings in Grenada in recent history, on Monday evening sent shock waves through the Balthazar area and throughout the rest of the island.
The heads of former police officer and farmer/proprietor Clyde Greenidge of Birchgrove in St Andrew's and labourer Christopher Stafford of Byeland, also in St Andrew's, were brought into the Grenville Police Station by their alleged slayer at about 6:15 p.m.
Informed sources told Grenadian newspaper New Today that Steve Gorrie rolled out the heads of the two men, from a white bucket, onto the counter of the Grenville Police Station, sending officers into shock and disbelief. A policewoman was reported to have fainted..."

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