Marlon Madden

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 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

2 weeks 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…

3 weeks ago

Critical role

For economic growth, Barbados needs accountants, president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB) Lydia McCollin asserted on…

3 weeks ago

‘Under-cover’

Senior insurance industry officials are calling on authorities to do more to encourage residents to fully insure their properties, even…

3 weeks ago

‘Game change’

The sale of CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank to the Colombia-based Gilinski Group could give the bank the room to end…

3 weeks ago

Thumbs up for ‘Smart Bridgetown’

‘Smart Bridgetown’ - the Government’s promised project to link people to free high-speed internet access, has been given the thumbs…

3 weeks ago

Teen talent

Officials of the Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation (BEF) $20 Challenge are reporting some progress in getting that annual contest for teen…

3 weeks ago

Economy ‘on way back from the brink’

Declaring that Barbados is on its way out of AN economic slump, Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn…

3 weeks ago