In Depth (OneWorld)

3 July 2008, 11:08 am

OneWorld has not yet published a guide for this place. If you'd like to help create one, contact the OneWorld guides editor at A policymaker who advocates population and gender issues, Dame Billie Antoinette Miller of Barbados, and a New York-based NGO that helps save women’s lives in developing c... read more

Her excellency's Fab WardrobE (Manila Bulletin)

3 July 2008, 9:27 am

In the history of Philippine-American relations, up until 2006 that is, we never had a lady ambassador from Washington, D C. Not just peddling products Early last year, marketing executives at Totes Isotoner, a Cincinnati company that had spent the previous 30 years churning out a reliable lineup of... read more

Departing CEO Isdell Awarded High Marks (Beverage World)

3 July 2008, 6:34 am

Neville Isdell left retirement in Barbados four years ago to return to a Coca-Cola Co. searching for leadership and trying to recover from two waves of job cuts. He heads back to semiretirement this week after improving employee morale and returning Coke to strong growth.... read more

Prince William helps naval shipmates carry out major drugs raid (hellomagazine.com via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

3 July 2008, 5:58 am

Second-in-line to the throne Prince William has been praised for his part in a major drugs bust carried out by the navy vessel on which he is currently serving in the North Atlantic. The 26-year-old royal, who's on a five week attachment with the British Royal Navy, helped HMS Iron Duke crew mates t... read more

Navy snipers seize £40m of cocaine off Barbados (Belfast Telegraph)

3 July 2008, 2:35 am

The Navy is using Special Boat Service snipers to intercept cocaine shipments heading to Europe from producers in Colombia and Bolivia, it emerged last night.... read more

Beneath Independence Mall, story of early free black America (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

2 July 2008, 10:34 pm

Robert Venable most likely came to Philadelphia a slave, shipped from Barbados as a little boy and ultimately bought and used by merchant Hugh Donaldson in the late 1740s.... read more

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