Stories about Barbados from January, 2011
Barbados: Thompson Wins Late Husband's Seat
Barbadian bloggers report that David Thompson's widow has won the parliamentary seat left vacant by his death.
Barbados: Concerned About The Elderly
Barbados Underground is concerned about the plight of the country's senior citizens.
Barbados, U.S.A.: The Republicans
“Trust the Republican machinery to make you start feeling nostalgic for Dubya”: B.C. Pires blogs about She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named.
Barbados: By-Election for Late PM's Seat
“The by-election in the parish of St. John is in full swing, with the usual bickering and personal attacks that have come to personify Bajan election campaigns”: Cheese-on-bread! can't wait for the whole thing to be over and done with.
Jamaica, Barbados: Caribbean Tales in Bim
Geoffrey Philp reports that Barbados will host this year's CaribbeanTales Film Festival.
Barbados: “Provoked” to Murder?
Barbados Free Press and Barbados Underground are outraged that a dangerous precedent has been set by the Director of Public Prosecutions’ recent decision to “[drop] a charge of murder to manslaughter because the murdered woman had refused sex and therefore ‘provoked’ her killer.”
Barbados: Mara Thompson Enters Politics
There's already a lot happening in Barbados for the New Year, one of the most interesting of which is that the late Prime Minister's widow plans to contest his seat – Cheese-on-bread! weighs in.
