Six months… Marlon Madden05/10/20191200 views Barbadians have gone through the worst of the austerity period under the homegrown International Monetary Fund-backed economic restructuring programme, BERT, the Government’s chief economic adviser has declared. Professor Avinash Persaud… Read more
Business, Government in ‘digital coalition’ Marlon Madden05/10/2019038 views Business figures have formed an alliance – dubbed a dynamic digital communications coalition – with Government to push for digital transformation. The coalition is one of a number of initiatives… Read more
Time for taxes review on tourism industry Marlon Madden05/10/2019146 views The stalemate between Government and international hotel chain Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has prompted Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley to call for a review of how taxes are imposed on… Read more
Arawak must bring energy costs down to compete Marlon Madden04/10/2019038 views Two months after losing a court battle in a protracted tariff war against its competitor Rock Hard Cement Limited, the Arawak Cement Company Limited has a new fight on its… Read more
Central Bank survey on the way people pay Marlon Madden04/10/2019032 views The way Barbadian and Caribbean people pay for the things they buy is to be surveyed by the region’s central banks, the Central Bank of Barbados has said. As more… Read more
Public inefficiency turning off investors, says Worrell Marlon Madden04/10/2019031 views A “tardy, obsolete and poor” public service is causing Barbados to lose out on millions of dollars in foreign investment, former central bank governor Dr DeLisle Worrell has claimed. Declaring… Read more
Scotiabank ‘shifting to customer demand’ Marlon Madden04/10/2019061 views Customer demand still drives change among the nation’s banks, as one commercial bank declared it was doing all it could to keep up. Manager of Premium Relationship Banking at Canadian-owned… Read more
Customs and businesses to meet Barbados Today03/10/2019068 views Ahead of meetings tomorrow between the business community and the Comptroller of Customs, a major distribution company is reporting some improvement with the new Asycuda World system, which left dozens… Read more
Reprieve! Marlon Madden03/10/2019149 views Motorists who missed the September 30, 2019 deadline to have the Barbados Licensing Authority’s registration tag attached to their license plates will not be prosecuted. This announcement has come from… Read more
PM lays out 2030 green energy ‘roadmap’ Marlon Madden03/10/2019054 views The push towards making Barbados into a green energy nation in the next decade, took a major step today with the Prime Minister laying out an “ambitious” but “doable” road… Read more