Marlon Madden

Call for utility company to compensate residents and businesses

The power and water outages across the island on Monday and Tuesday resulted in a crippling two days for businesses…

2 hours ago

‘Blank banks, other lenders’

Avoid borrowing money from financial institutions as much as possible and for as long as possible, budding entrepreneurs have been…

24 hours ago

Tech entrepreneur’s advice to budding business folk

Too many people are getting involved in entrepreneurship as a way of escape from their day job, according to Raphael…

24 hours ago

Ice-cream making to return to Bim

Iconic ice cream brand BICO will once again be made in Barbados come February after a decade of overseas production…

24 hours ago

BICO sees business boost from power cuts

As businesses tied to the national electric grid have been disrupted by two days of power outages, ice cream maker…

1 day ago

Tax to start early 2020 – Straughn

If all goes according to plan, Barbadians could be paying the promised 17.5 per cent online tax come early next…

2 days ago

Dirty fuel, aging generators blamed for 13-hour blackout

The approximately 130,000 Barbados Light & Power Company Ltd (BL&P) customers were left without electricity for most of Monday, following…

2 days ago

‘Check schools before you study’ – BAC

People seeking post-secondary studies should first make sure the institutions they want to attend are accredited, according to agency that…

5 days ago

‘Talk about a living wage’, Govt told

Government needs to introduce a policy to establish “a living wage”, a key figure in the international civil service community…

5 days ago

Social reform on Government’s radar

As Government continues to make “good progress” in implementing its economic reform programme, residents are being promised that social transformation…

5 days ago

‘Garbage trucks but no buses yet by year-end’

New garbage trucks are to arrive by year-end but the country’s first electric buses won’t be on the road until…

5 days ago

Government ‘on new path’ to technical assistance

Technical assistance, the hands-on aid that donors and institutions contribute to Barbados, will get greater respect by the Mottley administration…

6 days ago

Time to cash in as original spirit-maker

Perhaps the time has come for Barbados to stop exporting bulk rum and bottle more of the spirits on island…

6 days ago

Squeezing more from Barbados’ sugarcane

One of Barbados’ main private sugarcane producers is calling for an urgent overhaul of the struggling industry and for greater…

6 days ago

BAS head blames housing development for crop flooding

With northern farmers reeling from crop losses from last weekend’s torrential rains, their top representative has suggested that housing developments…

1 week ago

Country rapped for legislation lag

Barbados and other Caribbean countries are being warned to speed up the addressing of concerns relating to the perception of…

1 week ago

Financial backing for Govt’s digitalisation efforts

Government is in line for a US$40 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to help with its modernization…

1 week ago

No blame game, says Attorney General

The recent gruesome stabbing death of a 16-year-old, which sent the nation into a state of shock last Friday, has…

1 week ago

Tax cut sends Republic profits ‘up a quarter’

The steep fall in the corporate tax rate has boosted profits for Republic Financial Holdings Ltd (RFHL) by about a…

1 week ago