2018

Another oil discovery for Guyana as reported by nationnews.com yesterday. Excerpt from Exxon’s website: The gross recoverable resources for the Stabroek block are now estimated to total more than 3.2 billion recoverable oil-equivalent barrels, including Liza, Liza Deep, Payara, Snoek and Turbot Let’s look at some basic calculations: At the time of this post, the…

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Yesterday I looked at historical election data for Barbados. Today I’m focusing on voter turnout across the Caribbean. Using Caribbean Elections (C.E.) as my source, I focused on recent election results across several Caribbean countries and zeroed in on voter turnout. I also included voter turnout values for recently held elections in the US, UK and…

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Barbadians will be going to the polls in 2018 with one media outlet suggesting that elections will be called in May. Curious about past election results – for Barbados – I searched around and found the Caribbean Elections website. This site features a treasure trove of election related data for Barbados as well as several…

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Terrence Brathwaite was Barbados’ first reported shooting victim for 2018. He was 25 years old. According to Barbados Today, the body of Brathwaite – who was missing for 3 days – was found in Silver Hill, Christ Church. During January 2017 there were was one murder: Romario Lewis who was 20 years old (the Nation reported…

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