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Sandals Resorts executives have revealed that they are embarking on a room renovation project at the company’s two Barbados locations. Per a statement shared with TravelPulse today, the work will take ...
In 2011, the same year that Bajan singer, Rupee released his hit song, “I am a Bajan,” sargassum seaweed began to inundate the waters of Barbados. This migration of seaweed from the coast of ...
That’s why, when I heard about Sandals Royal Barbados’ new Tranquillity Collection – a health and wellness themed concept within the resort – I had every intention of spending my holiday ...
Sandals also said it will break ground late this year on the long-anticipated Beaches Barbados. The 600-room resort will have guestroom categories ranging in size from king suites to four-bedroom ...
Rockley Beach All beaches are public in Barbados, offering plenty of options for turquoise-water swims (provided there’s no invasion of sargassum, a seaweed that can clog shorelines in spring or ...
There is a sargassum seaweed crisis in Barbados. One tourist resort was spending US$2 million every year to remove it from the resort beach. McKenzie asked, what if we use sargassum to make biofuel?
Beaches on Barbados were smothered in sargassum last summer. That belt of sargassum, which is estimated to weigh more than six million tons, doubled in size from December to January, Florida ...
Rum and Sargassum, a startup in Barbados in the Caribbean islands, is turning rum waste from distilleries and seaweed washed off onto the shores to produce bio-compressed natural gas to fuel cars.
Barbados has been especially hit hard since flying fish make up 60% of the island's annual landed catch, according to the University of the West Indies. An overabundance of sargassum was blamed ...