Live in Barbados

Did you know that as a tenant, you can achieve 10% off of your electricity bill, once you transfer the account into your name?

We’ve been renting for the last 4 years only to be advised by a rep at BL&P that the advantages of transferring the account into your name is the discount you get each month off of your bill.  Until fairly recently, the rep advised that if in the property manager’s name, BL&P ranks the property under ‘General Service’ and this discount becomes null and void.

However, the rep also advised that they changed this rule a few months back so that the property management company can now change their ‘General Service’ accounts to ‘Domestic Service’, allowing tenants to be eligible for the 10% discount.

Considering how high the fuel charges are these days and the fact the price per joule has doubled, we could really have done with this knowledge, say, 2 years ago?!

Many of you might have been aware of this already, but for those of you who weren’t, either demand that your property manager switches the tariff bracket that you are in or take the time to go in and transfer your BL&P account to your name…

For more information on Barbados Light & Power Electricity Rates, click here.

There are already many tourist guide websites for Barbados, but Barbados Guide is a new one that has just come to our attention, although it seems to have been operating for some time.

The Barbados Guide is your comprehensive guide to “Little England” – one of the most diverse islands in the Caribbean. From influence of British forebears to the shopping and nightlife that make it famous, learn more about the hidden gem that is Barbados.

I really like the home page on this website as a lot of the information is available at-a-glance.

In June, Toute Bagai Publishing launched its first issue of MPeople, an avant-garde, artsy, cutting edge tabloid magazine featuring glamorous, inspirational and controversial personalities in Barbados.

Unlike its sister publication MACO Caribbean Living, MPeople targets a larger readership on island and aims to be affordable and easily accessible.

MPeople is distributed for FREE at the locations listed on the media kit.

Issue 2 of MPeople is due out mid September and rack rates (In BARBADOS dollars) are as follows:

Banner Advert – $500
Half Page – $1300
Full Page – $2500
Double Page Spread – $4500
Inside Front Cover – $5000
Outside Back Cover – $6000
Inside Back Cover – $4000
FRH Opposite Contents – $3000

Email MACO or call 266 8491 if you’re interested…

Click here to download MPeople Barbados Media Kit!

It seems like there are a lot of new advertising opportunities here in Barbados. Bajan Sun has just come to our attention offering local advertising options online and in print.

Check out their pitch:

It’s 9:00 a.m. and already your phone has started to ring. New customers are calling to inquire about your services and asking you to quote their jobs. Further inquires are coming in by fax.

In the meantime your front counter is becoming a hive of activity as prospects go out of their way to visit your shop. Sound too good to be true? These are precisely the results you can expect from this powerful marketing company.

Advertising with us will increase your sales and profits. Call us and let Bajan Sun Market your Business today and put our skills to work for you. You will notice a dramatic increase in sales.

Tel: +1 246 429-7784
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BaJanSun
Email: ba.jansun@live.com

The Bajan Sun

Pilates is a series of movements and exercises designed by Joseph Pilates to assist the body with muscular imbalances and bad postural habits that we are either born with or develop over time through our daily routines.

Pilates is the perfect antidote to the pressures and strains of modern living. If you play a sport regularly, work in front of a computer and/ or do a lot of driving, Pilates will improve your life.

I take regular lessons from Lana Sealy, a very experienced and respected Pilates instructor working locally in Barbados.

Lana orginally trained as a dancer at the New World School of the Arts, after graduation she worked professionally as a member of the Repertory Understudy Group with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, New York. During her time in the States, Lana started studying Pilates, a natural fit for a full-time dancer. Lana now has several Pilates qualifications including one from the Kane School of Core Integration.

After returning to Barbados in 2007, Lana now teaches Dance and Pilates at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination as well as Surfside Wellness Centre and Artsplash Barbados, focusing on alignment, rehabilitation, injury prevention and toning.

Last year, Lana attended classes in New York focusing on Pilates for people with Osteoporosis. In July she travelled on a luxury yacht throughout the Mediterranean as the Pilates instructor on board and in September she returned to the vessel by special request for the season in the South of France.

Lana is currently pursuing teaching hours towards her Pilates Method Alliance Exam in 2010 for her accreditation as a Master Pilates Instructor.

Pilates can be used as a tool to strengthen the core, realign anatomical structures to assist with rehabilitation, as well as prevent injuries and pin point muscular imbalances or just to tone and develop long lean muscles.

Special modifications are made for people with arthritis, osteoporosis, spinal injuries, pregnancy and many more.

Classes are done in six week sessions and are conducted in small groups to ensure individual attention.

Pilates is good for athletes and anyone with injuries or just looking to get in shape and tone up.

Classes are open to both men and women!

Contact Lana today on either 246-822-3376 or lanasealy1@gmail.com

Would you like to advertise in MACO People Barbados?

Statistically this magazine is read by people between the ages of 21 to 50 and is circulated in bookstores, supermarkets, gyms, airports, banks, coffee shops, restaurants, lounges, select retail stores, doctors offices, polo clubs, special events and that’s just a start.

MACO People Barbados is published quarterly and the rack rates are as follows:

Half Page – $650 USD
Full Page – $1,250 USD
Double Page Spread – $2,250 USD
Inside Front Cover – $2,500 USD
Outside Back Cover – $3,000 USD
Inside Back Cover – $2,000 USD
FRH Opposite Contents – $1,500 USD

Email MACO MAG to find out more info!

Following the recent launch of its Toyota Prius, the first environmentally friendly hybrid vehicle to be marketed in Barbados, Nassco Ltd. has scored yet another first as a sponsor of Future Trees, an initiative of the Future Centre Trust that aims to benefit Barbados’ environment through tree planting.

Nassco’s Sales Director, Roger Moore, recently visited the area of Wildey Main Road, St. Michael where the tree planting is slated to start, and viewed the 20 trees including Frangipani and native Mahogany plants, with Nicole Garofano, Administrative Director of the Future Centre Trust.

via The Barbados Advocate.

Government is spending close to BDS$9.5 million to have three major roundabouts in Barbados completed.

Speaking today at a tour, Minister of Transport and Works John Boyce said they had heard the pleas of residents and Highways users to have these areas fixed.

He was at the time at the starting point of the tour – the contentious intersection at Lancaster on the Ronald Mapp Highway where quite a few motorists have lost their lives.

The tour also visited the Boarded Hall Roundabout and that at Coral Ridge in Christ Church, which has met a few challenges.

At Lancaster, C O Williams workmen were busy on the site, which is contracted at $BDS3.2 million and expected to be finished within the next five months.

Boyce in assessing the work being undertaken, said they understood the kind of urgency in transiting East-West at this junction, noting it was difficult at the best of times, and near impossible during peak traffic.

via Nation News – Home.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados BGIS — Reliance on chemicals and pesticides could soon be a thing of the past if organic farming in Barbados continues to make its way into mainstream agriculture.Organic food market in BarbadosPresident of the Organic Growers and Consumer Association OGCA, Michael Bradshaw, made these comments on Tuesday at the second in a series of lectures on Sustainable Living – Organic Farming, Foods & Lifestyles, held at the Ministry of Agriculture.

via Stabroek News – Organic farming in Barbados charting a way forward.

There are a few things that make Cobblers Cove Hotel one of a kind and keep visitors coming back for more.  I’ve listed below what may be worth noting:

• In order to keep the hotel fresh, a selection of rooms (usually 10 out of 40 a year) are re-upholstered by fabric suppliers such as Colfax & Fowler every year
• All medical supplies are supplied by St John’s Ambulance from the UK and all staff are trained by St John’s Ambulance in First Aid, and then have to take the refresher course every 3 to 4 years
• Cobblers Cove has many ‘old school staff’ who have been there for about 10, 15 and even 20 years
• The head Chef is an Irish guy, Brian Porteus. Brian is a classically French trained chef who has collected his invaluable international playing experience in and on some of the world’s most exclusive restaurants, hotels and cruise liners, as well as was head chef and proprietor of Pordylo’s Restaurant his homeland in Kilkenny, Ireland
• Cobblers Cove also has a Pastry Chef, Jennifer Gerbis from the USA responsible for an array of delicious treats that will delight your palette

If you’ve stayed at this boutique hotel before, let us know your feedback in the comments section below.

For Cobblers Cove Hotel contact info:
Tel: +1 246 422 2291
Fax: +1 246 422 1460
USA / Canada: +1 800 890 6060
Email: reservations@cobblerscove.com
Relais & Châteaux: cobblers@relaischateaux.com