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Jay Merriman-Mukoro was on holiday with his wife when reported missing after swimming in the sea A BBC film-maker is feared dead after he was reported missing when swimming in the sea in Barbados. Jay Merriman-Mukoro, who worked as assistant producer on Andrew Marr's Bafta-winning History of Modern Britain, was on holiday with his wife when he went into the water at Accra Beach last Sunday. Continue...

The economic and social poverty of parts of the region are a lasting legacy of slave trading Caribbean heads of government gathered in St Vincent last week to discuss reparations from Europe for the enduring legacy of slavery . Professor Hilary Beckles, a Barbadian historian who chairs a reparations taskforce for these governments, wants to open talks with former slave-trading nations including the...

Tourists head to Barbados for the beaches and lush landscape, but without sugar cane the island would turn to scorched scrub. Now, with the EU about to slash prices in the name of free trade, local growers are fighting back. Joanna Blythman reports To the tourists who fly into Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados is pretty much heaven on earth. It has gentle bays of fine pinkish-silver sand,...

Lloyds TSB has come up with an attractive home loan that can also help you escape from the credit crunch. Rupert Jones reports We are used to mortgages that throw in a free valuation or provide help with legal fees - but how about a home loan that comes with a free return flight to Barbados? Lloyds TSB this week cut through some of the homebuying gloom with the launch of its Airmiles Mortgage. It is...

Country Life magazine has agreed to pay substantial damages and legal costs to the former deputy prime minister of Barbados for falsely suggesting that she assaulted another woman. Mia Amor Mottley QC, former deputy prime minister of Barbados, launched a libel action against Country Life publisher IPC Media after the glossy weekly magazine ran an article, Treading the Boards in Barbados, in its April...

Villas of Simon Cowell and Andrew Lloyd Webber among those PM tries to save on island reliant on UK tourists It was planned as the most lavish millionaire's hideaway yet on a Caribbean island already crammed with spectacular beach-front mansions. ...

s complaint about Panorama and remained hopeful that it might be able to broadcast the programme, which was scheduled to air last month. "We are still looking at the facts behind the complaint made by Harlequin and hope that the film will be broadcast in due course," he said. Harlequin alleges that Chapman had attempted to "induce [Harlequin consultant] Mr [Sean] Ghent into disclosing information about...

anger In the bars and on the bulletin boards of Barbados the word Merricks is frequently mentioned. A village on the island's blustery south-east coast, it is also home to the eponymous "luxury" resort being developed by Harlequin Property. The football pundit Andy Townsend, who acts as a Harlequin ambassador, oozes on the company's website: "Until now Barbados has boasted only one five-star resort....

s alleged conduct and failed to provide any evidence to support these allegations." Harlequin added that it appreciated the BBC's swift reaction to its the complaint and launching an investigation. The company also published the email it alleges that Chapman sent to Ghent, who is described in an email reply as "global head of security and risk", on 13 March and includes what it claims is "an attempted...

s most wanted men. Scotland Yard last night flew out copies of Biggs's fingerprints so that the Barbados authorities can confirm his identity. If the result is positive, the Director of Public Prosecutions is expected to begin extradition proceedings. The Deputy Commissioner of Police in Barbados, Mr Orville Durant, said that his prisoner wanted to be returned to Brazil, where his seven-year-old son...

Couple from Suffolk were shot during a port call to the island as part of an 85-day world cruise Two men have been arrested in Barbados following the shooting of a British couple on a cruise who were robbed during a stopover on the island. Ann Prior, 59, and her 72-year-old husband Philip, who are from Suffolk, were shot on Sunday during a port call to the island as part of an 85-day world trip with...

A man and woman attacked by robber in Bridgetown while on a P&O Caribbean cruise, according to reports The Foreign Office is investigating reports that two Britons have been shot by a robber while on holiday in Barbados. The pair – believed to be a man in his 70s and a woman in her 50s – were attacked during a stopover while on a Caribbean cruise, it was reported. A Foreign Office spokesman said:...

s police chief suggested they might not have recognised their rapist because he was "a different race". Dr Rachel Turner, 30, an academic from Hertfordshire, and Diane Davies, 63, a retired teacher from Anglesey, were forced to waive their anonymity as rape victims and helped organise the defence of the accused, the Barbadian Derick Crawford, before the case against him was dropped last month. He had...

s innocence, the two fought a year-long public battle for his release, which ended in victory when a magistrate formally dismissed both charges. As Crawford walked free, his lawyer, Andrew Pilgrim, said: "They are extremely gutsy women, extremely brave and I am completely amazed at what they have done." Turner, a research associate working on marine resource management at the University of the West...

s The West Indian , satirised planters as drunken layabouts in ostentatiously buckled shoes and hats. Behind the great wealth of planters lay the "triangle merchants" who motivated the slave trade between Britain, Africa and the West Indies. A typical "triangle voyage" carried trading goods from England to Africa, then slaves from Africa to the Caribbean, and finally sugar, coffee, cotton and rum on...

s location by 4.30am today but was released after the rowers' rescue. Earlier, a coastguard spokesman said: "The shore contact for the Sara G managed to get through to the crew of the boat via satellite phone and ascertained that the boat had capsized and they had abandoned to the life raft, which was tethered to the capsized vessel." The Atlantic Odyssey website names the crew as captain Matt Craughwell;...

s very own four-minute mile". Writing on the crew...

í faith in his work. Clive's compassionate, open-minded approach found an outlet at the Maudsley hospital in south London, where I worked with him on an admission ward for disturbed people who were often brought in by the police. Clive was notably calm and resourceful in such situations, and he unobtrusively expressed principles of "spiritual unity" in seeking communication with even the most angry...

s cricket ground bearing $20m, US diplomats were so concerned about rumours of "bribery, money-laundering and political manipulation" surrounding Allen Stanford that they avoided contacting him or being photographed with him. The extent of the widespread concern among embassy staff in Bridgetown, Barbados, where Stanford invested millions of dollars in Caribbean cricket before his empire came crashing...

the end of history' unless action is taken to stop sea levels rising Every country in the Caribbean faces huge economic losses caused by rising sea levels over the coming decades, losing hospitals, airports, power plants, multi-million dollar tourism resorts, roads, bridges and farmland, according to a UN report. Diplomats from the 43 Caribbean, African and Pacific nations grouped as Aosis (Alliance...