I recorded four unnatural deaths for the month of May. Two of them were shooting related (Winston Trevor Bynoe, 51 and Nicholas John Blagrove, 34), while the remaining two have been classified as unnatural (Trudy May Nicola Lowe, 45 and Trevor Clavier Marshall, 60). Total number of deaths recorded from Jan 1 to May 31…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics May 2018I recorded four unnatural deaths for the month of February. Three were shooting related (Terrence Brathwaite, 25, Kesmar Shaquille Codrington, 23 and Adrian Griffith, 34). Shirley Rogers, 73, was a victim of a knife-related attack. Total number of deaths recorded from January 1 to February 28 = 4. A few words on the data collection…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics February 2018Massy and ANSA McAL are two of the largest conglomerates operating across the Caribbean (and beyond in some cases). In 2016, revenue for Massy was $1.7 Billion US Dollars with a total of 12,000 employees. ANSA McAL’s revenue and head count for the same period was $892 Million USD and 6,000 employees respectively (revenue figures…
Read More If Conglomerates Were Countries: Comparing Massy and ANSA McAL with the CaribbeanThe price of gasoline and diesel in Barbados changed effective December 4 2017. Based on the historical data I collected, this was expected. Fuel prices have changed every month over the last few years and usually within the first week of a new month. For December 2017, gasoline moved from $3.19 BDS to $3.27 BDS…
Read More Fuel Price Change in Barbados for December 2017The objective of today’s post is to locate, explore and compare/contrast historical data re: Public debt as a percentage of GDP for several Caribbean countries. First, we have to find the data: The Google query “debt to gdp imf” brings us – ironically – to the IMF (Barbadians take note). In particular, the query leads us…
Read More Barbados Public Debt as a Percentage of GDP 1980 to 2012