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Major dollars in eco-tourism
BARBADOS has the resources to increase its foreign exchange earnings by promoting the island as an eco-tourism destination.
'92 a good year for fishing
The sea yielded more fish for Barbados in 1992 than it did in the previous year.
'Greener' cheaper cars by year end
BY year end, Barbadians could be driving cars which are powered by fuel which is cleaner, cheaper, and environmentally friendlier than gasoline. It is natural gas, which is "greener" than unleaded petrol and about 20 per cent cheaper.
'Poisoning us in our own beds'
After nearly a year of relative silence, Arch Hall and Bennetts residents are once again begging for relief and the immediate removal of the landfill at MANGROVE POND.
'Rubbish'
THE DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY (DLP) has described Government's decision to inject $3 million into the landfill at Greenland as "illogical, absurd and a case of misplaced priorities".
A bank holiday beauty
It was one of the most surprising and unusual community clean-ups every staged in Barbados. While others were picnicking and frolicking on Errol Barrow Day, Barbados’ busiest fishing community, Six Men’s, had raked up 10 tonnes of garbage from its small s
Agriculture - room for growth
Some of the view of Dr Attlee Brathwaite on "Constraints and Required Actions in Local Agriculture".
Alert
A MAJOR DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK which has for the first time included the Type Three virus has prompted senior health officials to devise a national action plan to combat the sometimes deadly disease.
America gets into clean up drive
A massive anti-litter campaign is in force across America as litter starts to pile up for the first time in decades. The city of Nashville transformed 120 vacant lots, once a magnet for graffiti, illegal dumping into affordable housing for families.
Anchors "away"!
AUTHORITIES are investigating damage to a sizeable area of coral reef suspected to be in the Folkestone Marine Reserve by two visiting yachts. The Blue Leopard and the Virginian dropped anchor on top of reef-building corals.
BAMC moving into non-sugar crops
AN AMBITIOUS new plan will see 3 500 acres of land planted with various crops under the supervision of the Barbados Agriculture Management Company (BAMC).
Barbados to host 2nd AIDS meeting
ANOTHER major meeting on AIDS is to be held in Barbados at month-end. The meeting was initiated by the World Bank and is a follow-up of the international conference on AIDS/HIV infection held in here in September last year.
Belle water study in the works
THE IMPACT of Glendairy Prisons and the Barbados Community College on water wells at the Belle, St Michael, will be looked at closely during the Belle Environmental Study.
Big-foot moves - THE LOWDOWN
FRIENDS, Bajans, pork-lovers! All glory, laud and honour to the Almighty who brought us victory last week. E'en now the Bajan battle-cry of freedom rings out: "Ikkidore, ikkidore, here I stand, the Queen's still the queen and Owen is de man.
BNFL may lose weapons contract
British Nuclear Fuels, the company which ships nuclear waste through the Caribbean Sea, faces a government review into whether it should be banned from managing Britain's stockpile of nuclear weapons.