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Showing posts with label barbados. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barbados. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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Port St. Charles Residential Marina Development St. Peter, Barbados:
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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Barbados from my iPHONE
The high cost to hang out:
We don’t mean to be spoilsports, but how are Barbadians able to attend the myriad high-profile entertainment shows that have proliferated the cultural landscape in the last three months and still make ends meet from day to day?
With an economy that is being buffeted by rising oil prices and the knock-on effect of slow economic growth in our major trading partners Britain and the United States, followed by not-too-favourable ratings by Moody’s Investment Services, is it unreasonable to expect Barbadians not to splurge?
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
The high cost to hang out
Historic Caribbean capital leads latest inscriptions to UN World Heritage List:
Historic Caribbean Capital latest To World Heritage List
The historic section of the capital of Barbados today became the Caribbean country’s first entry on the United Nations-managed World Heritage List after a committee of experts approved its inscription and that of two other sites.
The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Paris, said Bridgetown and its garrison deserved a place on the List, which is comprised of more than 900 cultural or natural sites around the world regarded as having outstanding universal value.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported that the committee found the Bridgetown site — comprised of a well-preserved old town and a nearby military garrison — to be an outstanding example of British colonial architecture.
“With its serpentine urban layout, the property testifies to a different approach to colonial town planning compared to the Spanish and Dutch colonial cities o
f the region, which were built along a grid plan,” UNESCO said in a press statement. Read more.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
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Bajan food @ Wisers Brandon beach restaurant. De food was nice but de waitress had no manners…
Mullins Bay, Barbados
Barbados is stuck with the unfortunate problem of what to do when conservation efforts go wrong. The construction of sea walls and other measure to prevent erosion have ironically led to increased erosion. However, this is not the only threat to these beaches as rising sea levels are also a concern. The eastern side of the island has experienced less detrimental construction, so beach goers might want to begin their visit there.
Source: Yahoo!Travel
A lovely bunch of Coconuts
Friday, June 24, 2011
Jamaican woman killed in Barbados domestic violence case. Cue nationlistic bullshit.
Who doesn’t? When that soca gets thru ur veins there aint no turning back
beach by nate compton
Bathsheba
Over her dead body: Nationalist rhetoric as (erasure of) violence against women Natoya Ewers, a Jamaican woman, was hacked to death by her intimate partner, leaving behind three children. I came across this Jamaican facebook page where the occasion of this woman’s death was used to denounce the fact that Bajans did not like Jamaicans. Many users asserted that the woman should not have left Jamaica to travel to that third world full-stop of an island Barbados. Absolutely no mention of violence against women. No mention of the Jamaican women who lost their lives at home in Jamaica at the hands of intimate partners during that same week. No mention of how increasingly violent Caribbean societies had become. I told myself it’s just one facebook page. Surely that is not most people’s reaction. Then I saw the Jamaica Observer cartoon above and it confirmed my initial fears. Caribbean feminist scholar, Alissa Trotz, has outlined how “women’s bodies [become] the site on which group loyalties are enacted.” Not to be outdone, on the Nation News (Barbados) facebook page comments were also nationalistic as readers alleged that the man who committed the murder and subsequently killed himself was Vincentian. They quickly moved from the nationalistic to the sexist: But lets face the truth. Bajan women take and take and take and just take too much from men. Its not like the men can afford to give so much. Men feel compelled to give because its the only way they can keep these selfish bajan women. Bajan women have become a society of beggers. Just say ” hello” to a bajan women and she wants a top up. Of course, the other facebook users moved to correct the commenter quoted above, not to chide him for his sexism but to remark that the woman in question was not Bajan but Jamaica. The stereotype of Caribbean women as mercenary, materialistic and financially dependent on men and these “facts” in and of themselves being presented as a justification of murder went unchallenged. While the recent tensions surrounding the treatment of Jamaican nationals at the Barbados airport and the rape of a Jamaican woman in police custody explains in part this recourse to an unthinking nationalism, it does not explain why all the “talk” following this woman’s brutal death made absolutely no mention of the similarity with so many other murders of Caribbean women and displayed very little feeling for the woman herself. Reports are that she had confronted her partner about sexually abusing her daughter. On local television one of her neighbours reported watching the woman’s murder from the safety of his bedroom window. Women’s bodies are used as boundary-markers in what has become an asinine Barbados versus Jamaica beef played out at the highest and lowest levels. Wasted time, talk and energy that could be put towards fighting against what is really at issue here: men’s violence against women, society’s sanctioning of it, incest and child sexual abuse. image source: Jamaica Observer CODE RED is a feminist collective of Caribbean women and men. Join us on facebook.
Project I did in my last year of school
Code Red beat me in commenting on the curious reaction among some in Jamaica and Barbados to this recent murder-suicide, which could’ve either been a result of domestic violence and rape, or plain old ‘Barbados hates Jamaica’ bullshit. It’s been said so perfectly, I have nothing else to add.
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Over her dead body: Nationalist rhetoric as (erasure of) violence against women
Natoya Ewers, a Jamaican woman, was hacked to death by her intimate partner, leaving behind three children. I came across this Jamaican Facebook page where the occasion of this woman’s death was used to denounce the ‘fact’ that Bajans did not like Jamaicans.
Many readers asserted that the woman should not have left Jamaica to travel to that “Third World full-stop of an island, Barbados.” Absolutely no mention of violence against women. No mention of the Jamaican women who lost their lives at home in Jamaica at the hands of intimate partners during that same week. No mention of how increasingly violent Caribbean societies had become. I told myself it’s just one Facebook page. Surely that is not most people’s reaction. Then I saw the Jamaica Observer cartoon above and it confirmed my initial fears.
Caribbean feminist scholar, Alissa Trotz, has outlined how “women’s bodies [become] the site on which group loyalties are enacted.” Not to be outdone, on the Nation News Facebook page comments (which have since been removed) were also nationalistic as readers alleged that the man who committed the murder and subsequently killed himself was Vincentian. They quickly moved from the nationalistic to the sexist:
But lets face the truth. Bajan women take and take and take and just take too much from men. Its not like the men can afford to give so much. Men feel compelled to give because its the only way they can keep these selfish Bajan women. Bajan women have become a society of beggers.
Just say ” hello” to a Bajan women and she wants a top up.
Of course, the other Facebook users moved to correct the commenter quoted above, not to chide him for his sexism but to remark that the woman in question was not Bajan but Jamaican. The stereotype of Caribbean women as mercenary, materialistic and financially dependent on men and these “facts” in and of themselves being presented as a justification of murder went unchallenged.
While the recent tensions surrounding the treatment of Jamaican nationals at the Barbados airport and the rape of a Jamaican woman in police custody explains in part this recourse to an unthinking nationalism, it does not explain why all the “talk” following this woman’s brutal death made absolutely no mention of the similarity with so many other murders of Caribbean women and displayed very little feeling for the woman herself. Reports are that she had confronted her partner about sexually abusing her daughter. On local television one of her neighbours reported watching the woman’s murder from the safety of his bedroom window.
Women’s bodies are used as boundary-markers in what has become an asinine Barbados versus Jamaica beef played out at the highest and lowest levels. Wasted time, talk and energy that could be put towards fighting against what is really at issue here: men’s violence against women, society’s sanctioning of it, incest and child sexual abuse.
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CODE RED is a feminist collective of Caribbean women and men.
Bridgetown, sunday evening.
My pool
Bridgetown, sunday evening.
Best time to go in town, had a great time with my friend T that day:)
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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i want to go back! the entrance to the most beautiful house in the world.
Plumeria tree blooming in Barbados, can’t get enough of these
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Barbados Board Walk (by Matt Anderson Photography)
EVA PIGFORD LINKED TO CRIMINAL FRAUD . . . WANTED FOR QUESTIONING IN BARBADOS!!!
Barbados Board Walk (by Matt Anderson Photography)
Kadooment. Google it.
New Rupee :I AM A BAJAN [2011 Barbados Crop Over][Slam City Studios] (by julian18249)
Yes, yes, yes and YES!
Kadooment. Google it.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
51: Drift wood by archers30 on Flickr.
Accra Beach 06/06/2011
Rooney and Carroll in Barbados, have a nice holiday!
1. I’m mixed-race half English, half Nigerian
2. I wish my hair was curlier
3. I get called Rihanna every time I go clubbing
4. anything with a reggae beat is worth dancing to.
5. I pose the same in every photo
6. I had red hair
7. I’ve been on TV.
8. I’m determined to get famous (watch this space yall)
9. To me, Barbados is the most beautiful place on earth
10. I believe aliens will land in 2012
Barbados’ finest (and my all time favorite West Indies singer) Jackie Opel. Version.
Romantic waterfalls and spitting fish fountains, oh my! #hotelpr0n of Sandy Lane resort spa in Barbados http://bit.ly/mrqrRD
New Lil’ Rick: WORK [2011 Barbados Crop Over][Rich Boy Riddim, Platta Studios]
51: Drift wood by archers30 on Flickr.
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And on a lighter note, this is my afternoon.
NAH WORRYS, NUH HAFFI LET GO….IT JUZZA BAJAN TING….NOW NUK IFFI BUK :P
Ethnic Minority Dominance in a Small-Island-Developing-State and the Implications for Development: The Case of Barbados:The plantation system in the Caribbean has been likened to a total institution, which created its own cultural, political and economic ethos. A clear-cut, well-defined hierarchical structure, based on race, class and caste flowed from the plantation system.
Plantations became total institutions because they imbibed a dichotomous relation of dominated and dominant, whereby just as in a prison or a mental institution the inmate is resocialized into a new set of values, so too the African slave was ‘seasoned’ to remove his culture and basic self. Therefore, modern Barbadian society is a direct consequence of the plantation system’s all-encompassing value system which brought together several culturally and racially different groups of people, meant to coexist in order to satisfy Barbados’ incorporation into the world capitalist system as a plantation hinterland.
- Haajima Degia, June 2007
A fascinating read.
Sir Charles Williams, one of the richest men in Barbados and the single-largest landowner on the island, claims to be a self-made multi-millionaire, who has benefited in no way from his race in a society whose most affluent also happen to be white. This UK-produced documentary excerpt adequately kisses his ass.
Navy Diver 2nd Class Ryan Arnold snorkels on the surface to monitor multinational divers below. by Official U.S. Navy Imagery on Flickr.
New Problem Child: WAISTLINE [2011 Barbados/SVG][Tite Choonz Riddim, Prod. By Kirk Arthur]
New Mr. Dale: WOW [2011 Babrados Crop Over][Tite Choonz Riddim, Produced By Kirk Arthur]
A photo I took on my last trip to Barbados
Shout out to all these people visiting from around the world!
“The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.” - Bahá’u’lláh
#BulletBxtch
Bathseba, Barbados (by garyegarye)
Kids soccer game Barbados by Trini D on Flickr.
My home away from home…
DSC09833 on Flickr.
DSC00203 on Flickr.
DSC00417 on Flickr.
Rihanna - Rude Boy
Both my mom and my cousin think I’m an idiot for wanting to experience the flavors of the Bajan Fridays.
”You gon lef America fuh go all de way to Barbados fuh try Friday’s, sucks teeth*.” -my dear sweet mother verbatum(sp?)
Bridgetown, Barbados
It seems like just yesterday that I wrote on the alleged failure of multiculturalism in the UK and the British government’s new immigration controls, conveniently ignoring my personal views on the fatally-flawed notion of freedom of movement within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Barbados has taken the lead, and the bulk of criticism, for its critical stance on the freedom of movement regime, but it now appears that there is some political will within the Community - at least from incoming CARICOM chair, Dr. Denzil Douglas - to revisit the framework.
“Barbados’ tough immigration policy that triggered a crescendo of criticism across the region seems to be becoming better understood and increasingly accepted.
Essentially, Barbados’ message that it simply can’t afford the cost of opening doors to all CARICOM nationals who wish to live in the country under the original freedom of movement regional plan, has apparently got through to some prime ministers and presidents.
Dr Denzil Douglas, St Kitts-Nevis’ prime minister, who is to become CARICOM’s next chairman on June 30, gives Barbados high marks for the way it approached the thorny issue by pointing to the financial costs of absorbing so many people at a time of economic difficulties.
He suggested that when Heads of Government meet in his country in less than three weeks, they should review the list of categories of people who could move without restriction.”
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out, especially considering the countervailing views of St. Vincent & the Grenadines’ Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves, and Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo.
Still, Prime Minister Douglas has proven himself to be an independent leader within the Caribbean Community, having also taken a key role in advocating for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in CARICOM member states, another equally-uncomfortable political stance.
#BulletBxtch
Wynter Gordon by BajanPaparazzi on Flickr.Via Flickr:
The view outside my patio
This photograph of the Combermere Abbey library was taken in 1891 by Sybell Corbet. The figure of a man can faintly be seen sitting in the chair to the left. His head, collar and right arm on the armrest are clearly discernable. It is believed to be the ghost of Lord Combermere.
Lord Combermere is connected to another well-known paranormal story: the famous “Moving Coffins” of Barbados. The coffins inside the sealed vault of the Chase family are said to have been moved about by unnatural forces. The heavy coffins were repeatedly put in proper order, but often when a new coffin was added to the vault, the coffins were found strewn about. Lord Combermere, while governor of Barbados, had ordered a professional investigation of the mystery.
Picture of myself. Knew you guys were waiting for one.
Wynter Gordon by BajanPaparazzi on Flickr.
I wish I had the accent. I can mimic it though. I’m a generation removed. My dad’s side are the ones from Barbados. I do have that “talking fast and being incoherent” problem often though.
photo I took in BARBADOS!
idk when; but wen its done ill post ah pic of it =)
Wynter Gordon by BajanPaparazzi on Flickr.
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