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The 2010 Barbados Reggae Festival starts on April 18th with the Beach Party.

In total there are now 4 events to choose from, here are the details:

Reggae Beach Party — Sunday April 18th, 2010

The Reggae Beach Party is to be held at the Carlisle Bay Centre, Bay Street from 3pm to 10pm. Artists include:

• Mr. Vegas
• Konshens
• Ding Dong
• Pumpattae
• Kirk Brown
• Omar Mcquilkin
• Ruby Tech
• Psycho
• Most Wanted
• DJ Jon Doe
• DJ Peter Coppin

Vintage Reggae Show & Dance — Friday April 23rd, 2010

The Vintage Reggae Show & Dance is to be held at Garfield Sobers Gymnasium. Artists include:

• Fab Five
• Marcia Griffiths
• John Holt
• Ernie Smith
• Ken Lazarus
• DJ’s Lil Rick
• Admiral Nelson

The Reggae Party Cruise — Saturday April 24th, 2010

Reggae lovers, tick off another date on your calendars, as the Digicel Barbados Reggae Festival 2010 expands, and its taking patrons to the high seas. Another event has been added to the ever-popular festival. Chairman of FAS Entertainment, Al Gilkes announced that a Reggae Party Cruise is in the making as negotiations are being done with Tall Ships. During the Festival’s press launch on Wednesday. Gilkes Explained that visitors to the island for the festival, complained of having too much spare time. Gilkes said” they go to Vintage on Friday, the Hill on Sunday but they have nothing to do on Saturday.

The Reggae Party Cruise is schedules to take place on the 24th of April on the M.V. Harbour Master and will give patrons a chance to mingle with the stars who are part of the Reggae on The Hill line up.

Reggae on the Hill — Sunday April 25th, 2010

Reggae on the Hill is the grand finale of the festival held at Farley Hill National Park from 10am to 8pm. Artists include:

• Richie Spice
• Maxi Priest
• Luciano
• Tarrus Riley
• Etana
• Busy Signal
• Romain Virgo
• Supa Ruben
• Buggy Nhakente
• Hotta Flames
• LRG
• Brimstone
• Albert Olton
• Ras Al-I
• Orakle
• Daniel

Tickets are available from the following box offices:

• CS Pharmacy – Bridgetown
• Warrens Ticket Centre – Super Centre Warrens
• Digicel – Sheraton
• Cooyah 246 – Prince William Henry Street, Bridgetown
• Mount Gay Visitors Centre – Spring Garden

You can also find more information by visiting the official Barbados Reggae Festival 2010 website: thebarbadosreggaefestival.com. You can also follow event organiser Fas Entertainment on Twitter and Facebook.

Barbados is 80-90 percent ready to stage the local leg of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Twenty20, West Indies, tournament.

Word of this has come from Events Coordinator and Acting President of the Barbados Cricket Association, Conde Riley. He was speaking Monday at a press briefing and unveiling ceremony at Kensington Oval, of the first of six bats to be placed at strategic locations around the island.

Caribbean Net News: Barbados getting ready for ICC Twenty20.

Breast Cancer Golf Event

Hi All,
I hope you are all aware by now that I have entered the RW Ladies Open in support of The Barbados Breast Scrteening Programme.

The tournament starts tomorrow, I will be dressed as above, and with legs and armpits waxed (DONE).

Please support this cause if you can (i know times are tough for everyone):

Breast Cancer affects 1 in 8 women in their lifetimes. Its the most common cancer in women and the leading cause of cancer mortality.

Effective screening, and as a result early detection, increases survivability to 95%. So supporting the Barbados Screening Programme is a vitally important cause.

As a married man and a father and a son I wanted to support this cause in support of my female family members before the fact. Boys don’t be shy, get involved.

Any support you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Donations can be made to:

*’Barbados Cancer Society B.S.P’ * ( Last bit stands for Breast Screening Programme and its important otherwise chqs go into the general fund)

Facebook | Marcus Clarke playing in RW Ladies Open for Breast Screening Programme.

A friend of mine moved to Barbados from the UK recently, and one of the first things they asked was how the recycling works here. Unfortunately, most islanders do not recycle and are more than happy to send their waste to the now full landfill site. A fact which often shocks folks from overseas who have been conditioned into recycling from birth. It’s even more surprising, when you realise (took me about 2 years to discover B’s) that it’s actually pretty easy to get down to B’s Bottle Depot and drop off a bag of rubbish to one of their many helpful staff.

B’s Bottle Depot was founded in 2001 by Andrew and Paul Bynoe, with the mission of maximising the diversion of waste from landfill towards recycling. The core business of the company is the collection and recycling of plastic and glass bottles, aluminium cans, metals, vehicle bumpers and batteries from hotels, restaurants, schools, community groups and households.

Since inception, B’s Bottle Depot has expanded to accomodate increasing volumes of waste. Bottles are processed on site and made ready for major dealers like R.L. Seale & Co. Ltd. Aluminium cans are baled and exported overseas for recycling. B’s Bottle Depot also recycles card; a ton of paper made from recycled stock saves up to 17 trees and uses 50% less water. Batteries can also be collected or delivered to the depot for safe disposal.

There is also the opportunity to earn revenue from glass and plastic bottles. With funds generated from recycling bottes, the St. James Secondary School was able to purchase new benches for the school children all thanks to B’s Bottle Depot.

Recycling 1 aluminium can saves enough energy to keep an 100-watt bulb burning for almost 4 hours or run your television for 3 hours.

B’s Bottle Depots
Cane Garden, St. Thomas — Mon – Sat — 8:00AM – 4:30 PM
Bosvigo Road, St. Micheal — Mon – Sat – 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Tel: 438-9285
Fax: 438-9248
Email: bsdepot@caribsurf.com
B’s Bottle Depot PDF brochure

In extreme heat and humidity and racing right-handed on a baked turf course, Sterwins, under expert handling by champion jockey Patrick Husbands, swung wide into the homestretch of the 1 1/8-mile event. He was up in the final sixteenth to win by about half a length over Bribon, last year`s Metropolitan Handicap (gr. I) winner.

Owned and bred by Melnyk, a Canadian pharmaceutical entrepreneur who lives in Barbados, Sterwins ran the distance in a scorching 1:48 4/5, just one-fifith off the course record.

via Melnyk Celebrates Sterwins’ Win in Gold Cup | BloodHorse.com.

I’m one of those who thinks that voluntary measures would have been appropriate much earlier, if only to put into people’s minds that the situation was grave some weeks ago, could get very serious, and that would require stiffer responses, including mandatory daytime shut-offs.

Living in Barbados: Watering Down The Response To The Drought.

Sandy Lane Gold Cup

Sandy Lane Gold Cup horse racing in Barbados – Telegraph.

West Coast wave

Always worth keeping an eye on Tarik’s surfing photography: Flickr: TarikB’s stuff tagged with surf. A lot of his more recent surf shots are not tagged as surf, so check the main photostream too.

More Barbados video porn for you…

Anyone recognise the song?

It’s impressive to see how much the Bajan Fire Fighters have embraced the internet recently. Blogging and tweeting updates and news on house fires, cane fires and traffic accidents. One wonders if other public services would welcome such scrutiny of their work?

Bajan Fire Fighters