Posted by Craig Harewood on Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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The Caribbean as a whole has been experiencing severe drought, although the severity of the situation seems to elude many including the intellectuals at UWI, Cave Hill (Barbados), government contractors in Trinidad and the tourism sector in Jamaica. All of the aforementioned and many more examples show the complete disregard of the term severe drought.Barbados - Worst drought in 100 years and UWI Cave HillWhile attending the University of the West Indies many students have reported their abso... Continue reading...
Posted by Taken from Campus Notices on Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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There has been major water shortages and problems in Jamaica since 2009 December. We just found it interesting to post the different responses from the two major university to the Jamaica water crisis following this i.e. their responses as of Feb 1st 2010.University of Technology, Jamaica ResponseResulting from the acute water shortage in the corporate area, the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) is finding it increasingly difficult to provide ample water supply on its Papine campus. T... Continue reading...
Posted by Craig Harewood on Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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“WASHINGTON (AP) - A Barbados-based company on Tuesday recalled about 635,000 cribs sold by Kmart, Sears, Wal-Mart and other stores after the death of a 6-month-old boy and multiple reports of injuries.The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of 20 models of Dorel Asia cribs with both drop sides and fixed front rails.Some of the Chinese- and Vietnamese-made cribs were recalled because their drop sides can detach, creating a space where a child can be trapped and suffocate... Continue reading...
Posted by Craig Harewood on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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CARICOM – Caribbean Common MarketTHE CARIBBEAN Community’s emergency aid mission to Haiti, comprising Heads of Government and leading technical officials, failed to secure permission Friday to land at that devastated country’s airport, now under the control of the United States.Consequently, the CARICOM ’s assessment mission’, that was to determine priority humanitarian needs resulting from the mind-boggling earthquake disaster of Haiti last Tuesday, had to travel back from Jamaica ... Continue reading...
Posted by Craig Harewood on Thursday, January 14, 2010
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Many of us are quite unaware as to the true reason that Haiti is as poor as it is. And it certainly has nothing to do with simply bad management of government or the natural disaster that frequent the country all too often. Some 200 years ago Haiti was forced to pay France to be able to claim its sovereignty and peace from France. Haiti paid 90 million Francs (21 billion now) to their colonial powers to secure their Freedom.Many of us only know half of that story that is that the Haitian peop... Continue reading...
Posted by Craig Harewood on Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Fantasia woes fans Two days before the release of fantasia show on BET the star treated Barbadians to an hour long performance that rocked the Sir Garfield Sobers Gymansium. Fantasia got into a rhythm and worked the crowds as she showed she was still that down to earth girl by getting up close and personal with her fans as she sang favourites such as ‘When I See You”. She even sang Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ an appropriate gesture as the Barbadian celebrity could not make the event. Fanta... Continue reading...
Posted by Craig Harewood on Sunday, January 3, 2010
Apologies for not wishing you a happy new year sooner. I (and all our other contributors) have been very bit busy entertaining guests and probably consuming too much food and drink, so we haven’t been able to post as much as we should. For all I know an asteroid the size of Texas could have slammed itself into the other side of the earth today and I wouldn’t know or be able to post about it. So let me take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year to all Kiss Barbados visitors. May t... Continue reading...
Posted by Craig Harewood on Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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The facts that would enflame China:China has a GDP of $ 5.5 billion (US figures) yet is treated much like a small child in the international arena with up to now very little say in global policies. If you ignore a country for so long then when they get some political clout they will flex it against you. I am actually surprised that so many people thought Copenhagen would have gone so well. The article circulating twitter right now (by Mark Lynas) shows our lack of understanding on China’s ... Continue reading...
Posted by Craig Harewood on Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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An American Airlines Boeing 737 overshot the runway while landing at the international airport at Kingston, Jamaica on Tuesday night. A US Federal Aviation Authority FAA spokeswoman said the plane was American Airlines flight 331 from Miami to Jamaica. Jamaican information Minister Daryl Vaz said at least 40 people were injured but there were no reported fatalities on Tuesday night. Updated reports indicate that 91 people have been injured. Many observers (mainly newspaper journalists) on the... Continue reading...
Posted by Craig Harewood on Saturday, December 19, 2009
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Copenhagen DebacleThe last couple of months marked a notable shift in the climate change debate from “is it real” (mostly an American debate) to what can we do about it. Excluding the minor blimp of a few hacked emails there was a consensus – global warming is real. In that respect many saw Copenhagen as the turning leaf in moving from the debate on climate change to the action on climate change.
Emission TargetsEven the emission targets expected (brought forward from the Kyoto Agreement... Continue reading...
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