PPDD responds to Standard & Poor’s upgrade Barbados Today14/12/20190367 views The People’s Party for Democracy and Development (PPDD) has responded to Standard & Poor’s upgrade to Barbados’ foreign currency sovereign credit rating. On Thursday New York-based Standard and Poor’s raised… Read more
Economy ‘on track’ with credit ratings boost – BPSA Marlon Madden13/12/20190401 views Buoyed by a major upgrade of Barbados’ creditworthiness yesterday, the private sector touted expectations of rising investment levels with renewed confidence in the economy. Chairman of the Barbados Private Sector… Read more
Barbados ‘ready for Brexit EPA’, says Husbands Sandy Deane27/11/20190395 views Barbados is ready to take full advantage of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with post-Brexit Britain, Minister of Foreign Trade Sandra Husbands has declared. Leading off debate on the Economic… Read more
Trust Loan Fund seeking to broaden its mandate Barbados Today24/11/20190298 views A year after opening its doors to finance micro, small and medium-sized enterprises across the island, the Trust Loan Fund is seeking to broaden its mandate, Minister of Small Business,… Read more
Barbados external exchange offer preliminary results Barbados Today24/11/20190301 views Government has announced that the invitations and consent solicitations announced on November 5 in respect of seven series of U.S. dollar claims on the Government of Barbados and its public… Read more
BERT programme still ‘on target’ Emmanuel Joseph23/11/20190344 views The committee established to monitor the Government’s performance under the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) programme said today all of this year’s fiscal targets have been met up to… Read more
Electric, water outages ‘could harm recovery plan’ Emmanuel Joseph22/11/20190336 views One of the co-chairs of the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) programme has warned that power and water blackouts threaten to undermine Government’s ability to reach the IMF- backed… Read more
‘Talk about a living wage’, Govt told Marlon Madden16/11/20190325 views Government needs to introduce a policy to establish “a living wage”, a key figure in the international civil service community has suggested, even as she endorsed plans for a minimum… Read more
Debt restructuring ‘must be coupled with economic growth’ Barbados Today14/11/20190265 views An Opposition senator has suggested Government address economic growth in order to reap higher gains from debt restructuring or the economy may end up worse off than before. Senator Crystal… Read more
Million by migration ‘economic boom’, says Stephen Barbados Today12/11/20199487 views One million Barbadians could be the boost the economy really needs, respected economist Jeremy Stephen has suggested, as he threw his strong support behind Government’s push towards a managed migration… Read more