For the past few weeks, Barbadians have been staring out to sea. However, it’s not boats that have caught their attention, but the antics of one of Mother Nature’s biggest marine creatures frolicking in the island’s waters. The article below is from yesterday’s The Nation News here in...

I sat on a heated toilet seat yesterday. It wasn’t the highlight of my Alaska vacation but, coming in from the cold, it was memorable nonetheless. Greg and I are in Anchorage visiting family. The ways Alaska differs from my home of Barbados are stunning, stretching far beyond facilities in the...

I live on the beach in Barbados but am a 4th-generation Coloradan. In the late 1800s, my ancestors traveled across the U.S. in a covered wagon and settled just outside Boulder, Colorado, where they homesteaded 160 acres of land. They and subsequent generations ceaselessly worked the land and today the...

If the BP oil spill had occurred in Barbados …. well, it pains me to think about it. What are the people of the Gulf of Mexico in the US going through? What does it feel like and look like to have one’s beautiful beaches defaced? “If It Was My Home” gives a good idea.  Scroll down...

Where’s the Love? Erosion in Barbados on Valentine’s Weekend Instead of kanoodling, some Barbadians spent Valentine’s Day weekend battling ten-foot waves crashing against the shoreline of our small island. The normally calm Caribbean Sea bashed the shoreline of the usually idyllic Mullins...

Witnessing the magnificent race horses run around the oval grass track at the Garrison is a beautiful and memorable experience. Our six-furlong grass track and the high standards of Barbados’ horse racing are sources of immense pride in Barbados. The garbage left there after a race is not. The Barbados...

“Paper or plastic?” is not a question asked in Barbados.  Here, it’s all plastic, all the time. Never have I seen people more fond of plastic bags than Bajans. I go to Big B grocery store and I watch as small items are slipped into small polythene bags and then put into larger polythene...

Can you help me?  I just returned from Miami Beach, where high rise buildings (hotels and condos) line the beach.  Here in Barbados we clearly have a height limit on buildings along the shore – but I’m having a difficult time finding what that limit is and how it came to be.  I see in Warrens...