City vendors’ kiosks near completion Marlon Madden07/08/2021056 views After several delays, Fairchild Street food and beverage vendors will be moving into their new working areas over the coming weeks. Word of this has come from Joy-Ann Haigh, Chief… Read more
Call to fix impediments to investment Marlon Madden06/08/2021064 views Barbados and other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states are being challenged to urgently address shortfalls that officials say are hindering more foreign direct investment from being pumped into regional economies.… Read more
Need for new framework to fund development Marlon Madden06/08/2021062 views One New York-based professor has joined Barbados and other small island developing states (SIDS) in calling for a new financing development model and for more developed countries to take greater… Read more
Barbados on “watchlist’ status Marlon Madden06/08/2021035 views Barbados is once again at risk of being removed from the United Kingdom’s so-called “green list” and being placed on the “amber list” in the traffic light system. This possibility… Read more
Ambassador to UAE looking beyond traditional areas of cooperation Barbados Today06/08/20210122 views Barbados’ first Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is already announcing plans to strengthen ties between Bridgetown and Abu Dhabi beyond traditional areas of cooperation. Co-founder of the digital… Read more
Economist weighs in on economic report Barbados Today05/08/2021077 views Though lauding the Mia Mottley administration for being “fiscally responsible” during the first half of the year, one local economist is expressing grave concern over the island’s growing debt levels.… Read more
No Crop Over impacts recovery Barbados Today05/08/2021094 views The absence of a Crop Over festival two years in a row will impact the pace of Barbados’ economic recovery. This assessment has come from Central Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes,… Read more
Academics urged to do more Barbados Today05/08/2021055 views The Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services’ (SRC) retiring director is urging academics to do more than write scholarly papers. Neil Paul, who demitted office last… Read more
Positive strides by Fortress Barbados Today05/08/2021033 views Fortress Fund Managers is boasting of “healthy returns” for the second quarter of 2021 when compared to last year at the height of the COVID- 19 pandemic. In its most… Read more
Call to action- do more for small, micro enterprises Barbados Today05/08/2021050 views Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) is calling for greater assistance to be provided to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Deodat Maharaj, who took up the… Read more