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Rihanna
Adrian Elcock, Chairman of the BTA

What is the connection between Adrian Elcock, Chairman of the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA) and Rihanna?

Does it have anything to do with her being given a 3 year contract to market Barbados the terms of which have not been made public?

Does this connection have anything to do with the big Rihanna concert here 2 years ago?

Does it have anything to do with her concert here later this year?

Is this why we cannot get financial results for the concert 2 years ago which we taxpayers paid for… Is there what the Trinidadians call “bobol” going on at the BTA with Chairman Adrian Elcock in place?

Why after all this Rihanna expenditure and promotion  is St. Lucia still receiving more visitors than Barbados for 2013 so far.

Read the news story in the Barbados Today which names Adrain Elcock as agent for Rihanna :

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218 responses to “Adrian Elcock Rihanna Partnership”

  1. alvin cummins Avatar
    alvin cummins

    @Look et al like him the following refers to Kamau Brathwaite: I will come back to Rihanna again

    3rd Annual Critical Caribbean Symposium 2013: Celebrating the Life and Work of Kamau Brathwaite
    by ivetteromero

    kamau-brathwaite

    The 2013 Critical Caribbean Symposium will be held at the College of The Bahamas in Nassau, Bahamas, on November 22-23, 2013. The symposium is dedicated to Barbadian thinker and writer Kamau Brathwaite—“A Splice of Space and Time”: Celebrating the Life and Work of Kamau Brathwaite. The deadline for submissions is October 4, 2013.

    Description: Since the early 1950s, Kamau Brathwaite has been one of the leading producers of Caribbean cultural and intellectual discourses. Not just an award winning poet, the richness of Brathwaite’s verse is paralleled only by the depth of his scholarly essays in literary criticism, cultural theory, and history. With groundbreaking works including Four Plays for Primary Schools (1964), Rights of Passage (1967), Black an Blues (1976), Roots (1993), The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820(1971), History of the Voice: the Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry (1986)), Braithwaite’s place as a major contemporary poet, philosopher and original literary voice of the Caribbean has been well-established.

    The 3rd Annual Critical Caribbean Symposium will not simply honor the legacy of Edward Kamau Brathwaite, the man, but we will also grapple with the grand themes presented within the body of the Brathwaitian oeuvre, including issues of Afro-Caribbean identity, nation language, history, tidalectics, creoleness, and the Caribbean African heritage, among others.

    The organizers of the symposium encourage interdisciplinary papers that analyze Brathwaite’s contributions to Caribbean politics, art, culture, language, gender studies and histories.

    100-200 word paper abstracts or panel proposals, including 100-200-word panel description along with individual abstracts for up to 4 papers should be submitted to criticalcaribbean@gmail.com

    The organizers also invite proposals for alternatives to traditional panel sessions; they particularly encourage submissions of creative work (visual arts, short films, performance pieces, and creative writing) exploring the theme of the symposium.

    For more information, please contact the organizers at criticalcaribbean@gmail.com

  2. Well Well. Avatar
    Well Well.

    Alvin……….Kamau is truly a one of a kind, naturally gifted intellectual who has taught as US universities, last i heard he was at NYU, he should really be nominated as a laureate.

  3. alvin cummins Avatar
    alvin cummins

    @Look
    BQASED ON YOUR WRITINGS, YOU DON’T KNOW ZILCH ABOUT Barbados DESPITE WHAT YOU TRY TO PORTRAY AS KNOWLEDGE. yOU ALSO DON’T KNOW ZILVCH ABOUT rIHANNA; WHAT SHE HAS ATTAINED IN THE MUSIC industry the fashion industry, her popularity with leading fashion magazines such as Vogue, and other areas.Where ever she performs all over the world she draws huge crowds. I have spoken with many young people in Canada who purchased tickets and went to her concerts that she is extremely popular among them. Older people who do not understand that the world is constantly changing and setting and accepting different standards. What was good for us older folks is not acceptable to these young people, so while older folk are shocked by some language in today’s world it is acceptable.

  4. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ alvin cummins | August 13, 2013 at 12:39 PM |
    “What was good for us older folks is not acceptable to these young people, so while older folk are shocked by some language in today’s world it is acceptable.”

    Alvin, is that you talking? Is this the same dye-in-the-wool fogey that got on his septuagenarian high horse and downright condemn the use of marijuana in any form whatsoever?

    Don’t you Alvin, the moral pedant on drug taking, know that marijuana usage is rampant among the youth especially in Barbados and is their drug of choice even ahead of alcohol?
    You need to get with the programme and not cherry pick the moral menu for the youth.
    So the question to you Alvin is: Are you prepared to accept Rihanna in all her “habits”, marijuana using and all, for who she is and what she has achieved and continues to achieve thereby promoting the ‘image’ of Barbados abroad, in whichever light?

    Now please Alvin, if you are able to respond you should note I am in both the Rihanna and the mary jane corner.

  5. nanci Avatar
    nanci

    what image do rhianna have, all she does is smoke and expose herself, is that how she is promoting Barbados? she isnt even all that good looking anymore.

  6. nanci Avatar
    nanci

    maybe tourists is not coming to the island because of the high cost of living, and when you buy something you still have to pay VAT, not every tourist have money, they would rather go somewhere else that is more reasonable, they not going to come because of rhianna, barbados should save their money they spending on her. If she shout out barbados at the grammies, that dont mean plane full of tourists is going to come either , when rhianna is in the US or England, she is up against lots more celebrities, in barbados, its like she’s the only celebrity.

  7. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/11/nivea-fires-rihanna-and-14-other-brands-that-dumped-their-celebrity-endorsers/

    @ Alvin

    Rihanna right now is walking on broken glass. RocNation may soon give her the boot as did Nivea and it would be deserving. Oh, and Alvin that Nanci (poster) knows what she is talking about. Rihanna abroad has competition but nobody in Barbados. Rihanna is apparently not happy that Drake released and dedicated a song to Beyonce saying that she’s desired by everyone. According to Rihanna on instagram, not all girls love Beyonce but tickets for her Auckland, New Zealand show sold out in 15 minutes. Rihanna I know is performing in Barbados, November 2013. Tickets yet sold out for that show? According to tripadvisor.com, tickets for that show were available since August 2, 2013. Celebrities come and go. Rihanna is not the best the music world has ever seen. Agree or disagree, Rihanna is no match for Adele, Celine Dione, Jennifer Hudson, not even Miriah Carey.

    You slapped me in the face with Kamau Braithwaite. That was deserving. Is there more, more Barbados fine china? Barbados first competed in the olympic in 1968 and has participated in each games since then, missing only the 1980 Summer Olympics. The country’s only olympic medal to date is a bronze won by sprinter Obadele Thompson in the men’s 100 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. It’s only a bronze but kudos for Obadele Thompson. Barbados is way down the line behind the United States and China but does have an olympic winner, one.

  8. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    Here is yet another one, another singer Rihanna can’t handle – Christina Aguilera

  9. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMoIZxaYzKU&w=420&h=315]

    @ Alvin

    Your girl Rihanna gets booed at a recent Chanel Fashion show.

  10. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @LOOK August 13, 2013 at 11:05 AM…”Barbados is chioatic…but this North American, BA, MA I guess has to tell you.”

    BA, MA, and yet you can’t spell chaotic?

    Stupsssseeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    @ Alvin

    Awaiting your response, tickets for Rihanna’s November concert in Barbados sold out yet? Beyond Kamau Braithwaite, Is there more Barbados good china? Just in case you want to get down in the dirt, 119 individuals in the United States were awarded the Nobel Prize including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1964) and Barack Obama (2009). The United States though has more really good china. Colin Powell is the 65th United States Secretary of State, the first African American to serve in that position, a retired four-star general in the United States army and speaks perfect Yiddish (Hebrew language). Condoleezza Rice, Ph.d, additionally is an accomplished pianist, also an American political scientist and diplomat, the first African American secretary of state.

  12. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    http://www.tmz.com/2013/07/26/rihanna-fined-lindsay-lohan-accountants-deposition/

    @ Alvin
    Your show girl Rihanna did not pay her grandmother’s funeral bill in full and may not have to. She does have to pay $47,000 legal bills for defendants in her lawsuit against them on file in the Manhattan Federal Court (New York) – Court Order. She should lay off some of that marijuna don’t you think.

  13. iabingy Avatar
    iabingy

    teefing,and whoring?lol

  14. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/rihanna-kate-moss-v-magazine_n_2740806.html

    “her popularity [Rihanna] with leading magazines. . . . .”

  15. alvin cummins Avatar
    alvin cummins

    @ Look
    Here is another slap for you apart from the Nobel Laureate who is at Cave Hill:
    Inventor of the Week Archive

    Browse for a different Invention or Inventor

    Warde

    Optical Information Processing Technology

    Dr. Cardinal Warde, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, is considered one of the world’s leading experts on materials, devices and systems for optical information processing. Warde holds ten key patents on spatial light modulators, displays, and optical information processing systems. He is a co-inventor of the microchannel spatial light modulator, membrane-mirror light shutters based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), an optical bistable device, and a family of charge-transfer plate spatial light modulators.

    Warde grew up on the small Caribbean island of Barbados. As a young boy he started making his own toys. In Barbados he attended St. Christopher’s Boys School, Boys’ Foundation School and Harrison College, and was a sprinter on the high-school track team. His parents demanded excellence of him in school, but gave him lots of freedom and support so he could engage his inquisitive mind outside the classroom. By age 16, he had converted his father’s unused carpenter’s shop into a chemistry and physics laboratory, and with his high school friends he was launching homemade rockets (with mice aboard) from the beach near his home. Fortunately, he says, none of his rockets escaped earth’s gravity and most of the mice got their freedom when the rockets crashed.

    After finishing high school in 1965, Warde boarded a plane for the United States. He received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1969, where he was also a member of the school’s varsity soccer team. His passion for physics continued into graduate school at Yale University where he earned M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in 1971 and 1974.

    While at Yale, Warde invented a new interferometer that would work near absolute zero temperature in order to measure the refractive index and thickness of solid oxygen films for his Ph.D. research. This experience stimulated his keen passion for optics and optical engineering. Immediately after earning the Ph.D. Warde wrote letters to several of the leading engineering and science universities inquiring about possible appointment to their faculties. MIT responded to his inquiry, and he joined its faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1974 as an Assistant Professor.

    At MIT Warde’s interest shifted toward the engineering applications of optics. He became involved with other members of the faculty in the development of devices for enhancing the performance of optical atmospheric (wireless) communication systems to improve communication performance in inclement weather, and on the development of photorefractive materials for real-time holography and optical computing. To date, he has published over one hundred technical papers on optical materials, devices and systems.

    Today, Warde’s research activities are focused on the development of optical neural-network co-processors that are expected to endow the next generation of PC’s with rudimentary brain-like processing; transparent liquid-crystal microdisplays for display eyeglasses and novel cellular phones; membrane-mirror-based spatial light modulators for optical switching and projection displays; and spectro-polarimetric imaging sensors for remote-sensing applications.

    In addition to his research and teaching duties, Warde is also an entrepreneur: in 1982 he founded Optron Systems, Inc., an incubator company dedicated to developing novel electro-optic and MEMS displays, and light shutters and modulators for optical signal processing systems. Then in 1999 he co-founded Radiant Images, Inc., a company engaged in the manufacture of transparent liquid-crystal VLSI microdisplays for digital camera and camcorder viewfinders, portable telecommunications devices, and display eyeglasses.

    Dr. Warde has also dedicated himself to working with Caribbean governments and organizations to help stimulate economic development in the Caribbean area. As such he lectures frequently throughout the Caribbean at scientific and government meetings on the role of technology and education reform on economic development. He also serves, informally, as a scientific advisor to the Government of Barbados. In addition, for the last ten years Warde has mentored students in the Network Program of the New England Board of Higher Education. The goals of this program are to motivate and encourage minority youth in the six New England states to consider majoring in science and engineering and to pursue careers in these fields. He has been recognized with a number of awards and honors for his work, including the Renaissance Science and Engineering Award from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1996.

    [February 2001]
    @Miller I am supportive of Rihanna as an entertainer caught up in the life of the entertainment industry.

  16. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    @ Alvin

    Thank you for that slap in the face but I have slapped you more than you me, Right? We’re not even. Your girl Rihanna, still a nut case. Nuff said.

  17. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    @ Alvin

    Know I have to slap last, this is it, Dr. Benjamin Carson

  18. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    http://urbanbellemag.com/2013/04/rihanna-gets-dragged-by-fans-for-canceling-houston-show.html

    http://www.contactmusic.com/story/fans-throw-food-at-rihanna-during-gig_3769081

    Rihanna like her native land Barbados needs help NOW.

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