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Air Canada are offering great fares to Sun destinations, including Barbados.

Eligible travel dates for this promotion are from now up to Wednesday 23rd of June 2010. The lowest sale fares are for departures on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Seats are limited and subject to availability, therefore the offer may no longer be available on all eligible dates. Flights can be purchased up to March 16th 2010. All fares are each way and subject to taxes and fees.

aircanada.com – Special Offers.

Crop Over in Barbados is where we Trinis, at least those who are not doing the North American summer jaunts, head after Carnival to continue having a good time. The festival took its name from the days of slavery when the end of the sugar harvest would take place. Crop Over, having been reintroduced in 1973 by the then Board of Tourism, after it had been absent for many years, is the second largest economic activity after Christmas to reap the island a handsome revenue each year.

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Virgin Holidays is set to launch a new concierge lounge in Barbados to help holiday makers get the most from their time away. The stylish lounge at Waves Resort in St James will offer a relaxing space for Virgin Holidays customers to speak to their concierge team and plan a memorable time in Barbados. The Virgin Holidays team in Barbados are local experts who know the island inside out and are on hand to share their knowledge and help arrange days out, restaurant bookings and all kinds of special requests.

via Barbados’ Premier Business & Investment Resource • Business Barbados.

Barbados will soon have a direct non-stop flight from South America.

Starting Summer 2010, GOL, the second largest airline in Brazil, will operate a Boeing 737 from Sao Paulo to Bridgetown once a week on Saturdays, with same-plane connections to Buenos Aires, Argentina and connections to Rio de Janeiro at no additional cost.  This will be the second scheduled service from Sao Paulo in Barbados’ history. In the mid-nineties, BWIA operated a flight from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago through Barbados to Sao Paulo.

The new service was born out of meetings which the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA), aided by Hon. Consul to Brazil, Jorge Nemr, held with GOL in Sao Paulo and in Barbados in August and September last year. Since then the parties have been in constant contact via e-mail and telephone. The flight will be promoted from March, 2010.

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Some of you were enquiring whether locals could apply for the field volunteer position being offered by The Barbados Sea Turtle Project and I have received the following information from the Field Director, Darren C. Browne:

 Locals can most certainly apply. The process is much simpler than that for international volunteers, and the two-month time period does not apply. Simply complete the attached form and send the data back to this email address, along with a copy of your CV. You will be considered along with our other local applicants.

Please click here to download the Field Volunteer application form for The Barbados Sea Turtle Project and please email your completed form along with your CV to: thebstp@yahoo.com

The Barbados Sea Turtle Project is looking for volunteers. This position would suit English speaking students. All you need is the cost of a flight to Bim, acoomodation and cooking facilities are provided.

Field volunteers required for nesting beach monitoring programme for hawksbill turtles – Barbados – The Barbados Sea Turtle Project – environmental jobs at Stopdodo.com.

For our friends who are facing the cold Winter in Canada, come on down and visit us in sunny Barbados! Thanks for sending this in Rach!

I have generated this report, which is actually just a list of facts about each of the listed Caribbean islands, just something interesting for everyone.

Antigua is an island but this is also a word, do you what this means? Antigua is a Spanish word and means Ancient, it received its name thanks to Columbus, who named it after a church in Santa Maria!

Do you know what the National Flower of Barbados is? This flower was thought to only grow on Barbados, and it is called the “Pride of Barbados” it is a form of Hibiscus flower.

St Lucia now known as the luxury island of the Caribbean, used to be a land of war and battle. The British and the French went to war over this island at least 14 times, earning it its name “Helen of the West Indies”.

How many people do you think live on Jamaica, just a rough guess, and I bet that you get it completely wrong. There are many more people living here than you think i bet? I doubt that you were very close, the number you are trying to find is somewhere in the region of 3 million!

Cuba, the state stuck in the 60’s, well I want to shed something more interesting on this place for you. Bearing in mind the regime and all the restrictions set on this island, it is by far the most culturally diverse of all the Caribbean islands!

Grenada is a sovereign state, and has taken advantage of its natural beauty as much as possible to exploit tourism heavily. However Grenada has another name like Zanzibar, it is known as the Spice isle. This island produces much of the spice in the whole of the Caribbean, including items like Nutmeg from mace.

Finally we have Bermuda, well without stating the obvious superstitious stuff about this place, let’s find out something else. Bermuda may be referred to as the singular, but it is in fact made up of more than 130 smaller islands, the mainland is usually called Bermuda.

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For all you Virgin Atlantic fans coming to Barbados, see this video showing off the newly improved Virgin lounge at Gatwick airport.