Barbados and Palm Island Vacation 2015
Clips from our April 2015 vacation to Barbados and to Palm Island, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Includes scenes from Infinity on the Beach (on Dover Beach), Oistin's pier and fish fry, Calabaza catamaran trip to snorkel with turtles, Welchman Hall Gully, Hunte's Gardens, Bathsheba beach and Barbados Wildlife Reserve, as well as landing on Union Island in the Grenadines, and scenes around Palm Island Resort, Happy Island, Mayreau and the Tobago Cays
Music in the video is by Melvv via free download on SoundCloud:
The beach in Barbados
Our little piece of heaven for the day.
Viagem para Barbados - Dia 02: Conhecendo Accra/Rockley Beach
Sunset Crest St James Barbados
Put a cap on it. Barbados
Drinking rum in the back seat and trying to get out of Massy's Dome supermarket parking lot.
Sept, 2014
Tosha Jones
I pray that my photos will inspire another cancer patient to always look their best even when they're sick & not feeling well because we are FABULOUS LADIES with or without hair!!
Fantasy Barbados Persian Empire 2014
The Wedding of Harold and Caroline
From the historic Hastings Town Hall to the peaceful Ewhurst Green to their home town of Robertsbridge, Harold and Caroline got married!
Clean Up Barbados 2009
Jack In The Box Gully was accomplished thanks to the help of the Public Workers Sports Club and Lester Vaughans Secondary School.
History of Barbados | Wikipedia audio article
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History of Barbados
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Barbados was inhabited by Arawaks and Caribs at the time of European colonization of the Americas in the 16th century. The island was an English and later British colony from 1625 until 1966.
Since 1966, it has been a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, modelled on the Westminster system, with Elizabeth II, Queen of Barbados, as head of state.
Humanitarian response by national governments to the 2010 Haiti earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:32 1 Americas
00:01:42 1.1 North America
00:14:10 1.2 Central America and the Caribbean
00:22:42 1.3 South America
00:30:56 2 Europe
00:59:10 3 Africa
01:04:56 4 Middle East
01:13:37 5 Asia
01:13:46 5.1 Central Asia
01:14:38 5.2 South Asia
01:16:19 5.3 East Asia
01:19:49 5.4 Southeast Asia
01:23:30 6 Oceania
01:25:08 7 Other entities
01:26:27 8 See also
01:26:36 8.1 2010 Haiti earthquake
01:27:12 8.2 Humanitarian response
01:27:40 8.3 Benefits and fundraising
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The humanitarian response by national governments to the 2010 Haiti earthquake included numerous national governments from around the world pledging to send humanitarian aid to the Haitian people. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and ReliefWeb are coordinating and tracking this aid.More than six months later after the earthquake, less than one-tenth of the money that was pledged by foreign governments to the United Nations special fund for the Haiti quake was actually received. As of 20 July 2010 of all the nations that had pledged money to this fund only 20 countries had actually sent any money: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States. Others have sent supplies and/or personnel instead of money, and/or they pledged or sent money outside of the UN channels.
Initial pledges of assistance were tracked by the US Congressional Research Service. In 2015, the United Nations reported that US$13.34 billion had been earmarked for Haiti through 2020, though in the two years following the quake, less than half of that amount had been deployed.
Automotive industry in New Zealand | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:24 1 First automobiles
00:05:11 2 Early indigenous cars
00:08:35 3 Level of car ownership
00:09:32 4 Impact of legislation
00:10:44 4.1 America's domination
00:13:10 4.2 Cars from Britain
00:14:54 4.3 Australia and Japan
00:17:42 4.4 Used imports
00:18:28 5 Assembly process
00:19:39 6 Assembly plants
00:22:03 6.1 1922 Colonial Motor Company
00:23:48 6.2 1926 General Motors
00:26:53 6.3 1931 Rover
00:29:20 7 Government action
00:30:51 7.1 Completely knocked down
00:32:10 7.2 Import quotas by value
00:37:33 8 Assembly plants continued
00:37:43 8.1 1935 Todd Motors
00:40:23 8.2 1936 Ford Motor Company
00:41:12 8.3 New Zealand Motor Corporation
00:42:31 8.3.1 1936 Motor Assemblies
00:45:33 8.3.2 1937 Seabrook Fowlds
00:47:05 8.3.3 1939 Austin South Island
00:48:10 8.3.4 1939 Dominion Motors
00:50:50 9 Second World War
00:53:35 10 No-remittance licences
00:54:53 11 Assembly plants continued
00:55:03 11.1 1946 Austin Distributors Federation
00:55:28 11.1.1 1946 Associated Motor Industries and Austin Distributors Federation
00:56:13 11.2 1958 Motor Holdings
00:57:40 11.3 1964 Steel Brothers
01:00:19 11.4 1964 Campbell Motor Industries
01:03:09 12 New Zealand Motor Bodies
01:03:19 13 1970 Nissan
01:03:34 14 Components industry
01:04:38 15 Location of assembly plants
01:05:12 16 A snapshot of the industry 1966
01:11:20 17 Japanese Cars
01:13:54 17.1 iOther makes/i
01:15:07 18 New Zealand assembled 1967
01:15:45 19 NZIER review 1971
01:17:39 19.1 Demise of the assembly plants
01:19:11 20 Second Hand Imports and Left Hand Drive vehicles
01:20:58 21 Local manufacturers
01:21:07 21.1 From Trekka to date
01:24:54 21.2 Alternative fuel vehicle development
01:27:29 21.3 Kit cars and replicas
01:30:53 22 New vehicles registered and used imports registered
01:31:09 23 Museums and collections
01:31:47 24 See also
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The automotive industry in New Zealand supplies a market which has always had one of the world's highest car ownership ratios. The distributors of new cars are essentially the former owners of the assembly businesses. At the dealership level they have maintained their old retail chains in spite of the establishment of the many new independent businesses built since the 1980s by specialists in used imports from Japan. Toyota entered into direct competition with those used-import businesses refurbishing old Toyotas from Japan and selling them through their own dealers as a special line. The nation's car fleet is accordingly somewhat older than in most developed countries.
New Zealand no longer assembles passenger cars. Assembly plants closed after tariff protection was removed and distributors found it cheaper to import cars fully assembled. Cars had been assembled at a rate nearing 100,000 a year in 1983 but with the country's economic difficulties their numbers dropped sharply. Towards the end of the decade the removal of various restrictions as part of the nation's restructuring of its economy made available low-priced old used cars from Japan. These used cars met the local need for high ownership levels in a financially straitened world but since that time continue to arrive in such large numbers they substantially increase the average age of the nation's fleet.
Toyota, Ford, and General Motors Holden division still dominate the new car market. The tiny home market—the size of a large city— and distance from potential export customers worked with first-world pay rates against the formation of any significant indigenous manufacturers. Only small boutique kit and replica car firms were able to survive. They produce original kit and replica cars using locally-made car bodies and imported componentry for both the local and international markets. Several ...