By: Kemar A. Roberts, Attorney-at-law Introduction This article will examine the Regulatory Sandbox policy that has been implemented in Barbados and contrast its establishment and subsequent treatment of digital currencies, and other FinTech operations with international attempts to regulate the cryptocurrency phenomenon. In so doing, it is posited that regulators within Barbados are attempting […]
I’m not a “new year, new me” kind of person but this year you could say I slightly took on that culture. Over the years I have been through a lot and each year I picked myself up and never stayed down, these last two years I would say were the hardest so far in […]
BTS interview with Jemeul G. of Shop8ighti
Every year, some alluring façade is exhibited in Barbados by scammers selling the promise of “Getting rich quickly” thus captivating the interest of many gullible minds. Talented salesmen urge many to believe that accumulated wealth and riches can be easily acquired. Some are driven by the desires of pure greed or lust whilst few are […]
In this life, promises are the lifeline for some of us – we often rely on promises to ourselves and from the ones we love. We promise ourselves to overcome, to keep going, to be understanding, to get better, to believe in our abilities and intuition; promise to not hold onto past mistakes beyond the […]
Nightlife in Copenhagen is set for a heavy blow as one of the city's main clubs, Culture Box, will lose a substantial amount of funding from 2017. Since 2005, the Danish government has provided the club with €240,000 (1,800,000 Danish kroner) per year, but that'll end at the end of 2016. The club describes the [...]
San Bernardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford said Tuesday she will place an item on the May 24 board agenda calling for an end to rave-style events at the San Manuel Amphiteater in Devore. Rutherford’s decision came amid continued and growing complaints from Devore and Crestline residents about excessive noise generated from electronic dance shows at [...]
Like any music, jazz has its revolutions; its sudden incidents in infrastructure; its disruptive presences of unprecedented sound. Mostly it's slower than that, though, with years and generations of accretions before it seems to call for new vocabulary. That's one way to look at Winter Rockfest, whose latest incarnation occupied a dozen or so venues [...]
At 9 p.m. on a Friday in February, Watson was standing outside of La Casa, a micro-church and community center — whose main chapel is the size of your parents' spacious living room — nestled next to a tienda in Washington, D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Inside, a hardcore punk band called Unknown Threat had just [...]
Price, 57, has played music nearly her whole life, starting with piano when she was five years old. But in the fall of 2009, the guitar was still something of mystery to her. She had been playing for only a couple of months and was struggling a bit with the new challenges. Yet, instead of [...]
