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Say hello to these new faces in familiar places. TheWilmingtonMagazine. (The Morning Star)
Carter says Blair subservient to Bush Aug 28, 2006
Euan,22, was reported Friday Aug 25 2006 to have been hospitalised in Bridgetown, Barbados where the Prime Minister and his family have been vacationing but his condition is not believed to be serious. Carter says Blair subservient to Bush The Associated Press. (Bakersfield Californian -- Politics)
Blair 'causing party uncertainty' Aug 27, 2006
Ms Jowell was speaking as the prime minister returned to Downing Street after his holiday in Barbados. The prime minister is also facing renewed criticism about his handling of the conflict in Lebanon. (BBC News -- UK)
Gusts from tropical wave injure four in Trinidad Aug 25, 2006
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Strong gusts from a tropical wave injured four people in Trinidad and damaged the roofs of several homes as the storm moved across the southeastern Caribbean, officials said yesterday (Jamaica Observer)
PM returns to questions Aug 25, 2006
Mr Blair's eldest son, Euan, has remained behind in Barbados, after being admitted to hospital with stomach pains, according to Downing Street. Cherie Blair stayed back with her 22-year-old son at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, near Bridgetown, where Professor Andrew Zbar, a doctor at the hospital, said it was "a bit of a non-story". (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Kenya ready to fete Obama return Aug 25, 2006
Blair's son in Barbados hospital. Product sabotage' helps consumers. (Yahoo News -- Kenya)
H.O. Financial Limited: Information Regarding Proposed Directors Aug 23, 2006
As indicated in HOF's management information circular dated July 11, 2006, Mr. Rimer, who is proposed as a new director of HOF, is a director of Cidel Bank & Trust Inc. (Barbados) ("Cidel") and serves as Chairman of Cidel's investment committee. HOF and Mr. Rimer own or control 20. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
- Andrew Rawnsley: It's make your mind up time for Blair Aug 20, 2006
His allies are keen for the world to know that he will return from Barbados 'buzzing with ideas. Someone who spoke to him very recently says: 'He doesn't sound to me like a man who has spent his last summer as Prime Minister. (Guardian Unlimited)
- Oona King Aug 13, 2006
What is Tony Blair thinking on his yacht off the coast of Barbados. Whichever way the Prime Minister turns, he confronts obstacles, some of his own making, some not. (Guardian Unlimited)
Paddy Power Launches Online Bingo Using Parlay Entertainment Technology Aug 8, 2006
Parlay is headquartered in Oakville, Canada with offices in Bridgetown, Barbados and Valletta, Malta. About The Gaming Network. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Postcards from the edge: Wish you were here, Mr Blair? Aug 6, 2006
Mr Blair's decision to delay his holiday in Barbados was, say senior Downing Street officials, because "he didn't want to spend nine hours incommunicado". The implication, that the weeks of telephone diplomacy are reaching a particularly critical phase, helps smooth the embarrassment of the holiday U-turn. (Independent)
Blair turns attention to the home front Aug 5, 2006
The Prime Minister is expected to fly to the Caribbean today for a three-week summer holiday in Barbados, leaving John Prescott in technical charge. However, Mr Blair made it clear at his monthly press conference he had no qualms about leaving his scandal-prone deputy minding the shop and, given modern communications, stressed he would be in regular telephone contact with other world leaders. (The Herald)
Lawmakers take fewer trips Aug 3, 2006
One trip, for four nights, was to Barbados with the National Bar Association, a group of black lawyers. Tubbs Jones recalls one of her first trips as a House member, to Israel in 1999. (USA Today -- News)
Fighting terror breeds terror Aug 2, 2006
If you doubt that culture makes a difference , just compare the average annual income of the citizens of Barbados (called ittle England since the English gave it independence) with the average income of the inhabitants of Haiti. Years ago a Black citizen of ittle England enjoyed an annual income of 4,000 while the annual income of a citizen of Haiti was an unbelievable 100 or so. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Today in history: July 30 Jul 30, 2006
Actress Claudette Colbert died in Barbados at age 92. Five years ago: Robert Mueller, President Bushs choice to head the FBI, promised the Senate Judiciary Committee that if confirmed, he would move forcefully to fix problems at the agency. (MSNBC -- Race)
Blair's experience provides a lesson on how to play the leadershipgame Jul 16, 2006
The Blairs, tested beyond endurance by this rigmarole, finally throw up their hands and admit they are staying with Cliff Richard in his Barbados mansion. Then everybody goes home tired but happy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Across the great divide May 19, 2006
As a child of empire - my parents left Barbados in the early 60s for England, where I was born - I was ambivalent about both the growing tides of Euro-bashing and anti-Americanism on either side of the pond. I came less in the tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville than that other great chronicler of American civilisation, the Trinidadian socialist CLR James. (Guardian Unlimited)
Governor keeps low profile in effort to spur bond package May 8, 2006
News flash: Mayor Gavin Newsom's ex-wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, is about to tie the knot again -- and this time on the island of Barbados, with furniture store scion and onetime Calvin Klein model Eric Villency. Word of the pending "I do's'' comes just two months after her on-again, off-again divorce from Newsom was finally finalized. "That's how it is,'' confirmed Guilfoyle's dad, Tony, when we contacted him Friday, shortly after he spoke to his daughter. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Not only has our long-suffering team combed the globe to find 20 perfect beaches, and jumped on board the world's largest cruise ship for a sneak preview, Carole Cadwalladr has been rubbing shoulders with the Kidd family in Barbados to sample high society, Caribbean-style. I feel for them, I really do. (Guardian Unlimited)
Latin America briefs May 2, 2006 'It's woman time now' in Jamaica Mar 20, 2006 Coke chief Isdell's compensation dips Mar 11, 2006 525,600 minutes until the final bell rings Mar 4, 2006
BRIDGETOWN - Authorities began a series of tests Monday to determine the cause of death of 11 people -- possibly migrants from West Africa -- found on a boat drifting off the coast of Barbados. Police spokesman David Welch said authorities were also still trying to determine the origin of the people, who were found in the cramped cabin of a 20-foot wooden boat about 80 miles east of Barbados. (The Miami Herald)
Pertierra:Posada Carriles Apr 19, 2006
More than three months before CU-455 was blown out of the sky over Barbados on that sunny Wednesday afternoon of October 6, 1976, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) informed Washington that a Cuban exile extremist group planned to place a bomb on a Cubana de Aviacin flight ... Freddy Lugo and Hernn Ricardo boarded the CU-455 flight in Trinidad at 12:15 PM bound for Barbados ... Lugo and Ricardo got off the plane during its brief stopover at Seawell Airport in Barbados. (Zmag.org)
It is yet to be seen how this will play out for women in general, but we are optimistic," Webster says. A career politician who represents some of Jamaica's poorest citizens, Simpson-Miller has been a party member for 34 years and has held several ministerial positions. Simpson-Miller is not the first female leader in the region. Barbados, Dominica, Haiti and Guyana have had female presidents. In Chile, Michelle Bachelet was sworn in March 11 as that country's first female leader. In Peru,... (USA Today)
Isdell was retired and living in Barbados when he was tapped by Coca-Cola's board to run the beverage giant. Other key executives also received pay boosts. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Mine have been good, as they go: Belize, Barbados, tropical drinks with umbrellas, sunburn and suntan, cheesy souvenirs and duty-free alcohol. But none of them have been trips of a lifetime; they've all just been ways to break up the dreary monotony of winter in New Haven. (Yale Daily News, CT)
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