Economic austerity ‘until 2025’ Emmanuel Joseph21/03/20191081 views Six more years of fiscal medicine are what Barbadians can expect before the economy can recover fully, the Prime Minister has warned, less than six months into an International Monetary… Read more
Nothing to hide in consultants deal Barbados Today21/03/201915117 views White Oak Consulting is simply the best. Better than all the rest. And that, according to Prime Minister Mia Mottley, is why Government took the decision to hire the internationally-acclaimed… Read more
Tax refunds ‘coming’ Barbados Today21/03/20195199 views Within the next four months taxpayers are to begin receiving income tax refunds owed to them from as far back as 2011, Prime Minister Mia Mottley said this evening in… Read more
Budget 2019: Grip to loosen on Forex Barbados Today21/03/2019695 views Barbadians will be able to open foreign currency bank accounts here from July, as the Mia Mottley administration begins to loosen nearly five decades of foreign exchange controls. The promise… Read more
Gun crime ‘bad’, PM admits Barbados Today21/03/20191269 views Prime Minister Mia Mottley tonight made the grim admission that the current level of gun-related crime is “bad”. But she gave the assurance that Government is doing everything in its… Read more
End to CLICO debacle Barbados Today21/03/20191082 views Almost eight out of ten CLICO life insurance policyholders are to be paid out by Government for their investments and claims in the collapsed insurance company, the Prime Minister Mia… Read more
‘Comprehensive education reform’ Barbados Today21/03/2019156 views An education system, rooted in the colonial era, is in urgent need of comprehensive reform to fit modern times and give all children a fair break regardless of their abilities,… Read more
UPP ‘gearing up for 2023’ Barbados Today15/03/20191273 views With political parties yet to get out of the starting blocks following the Barbados Labour Party’s (BLP) historic clean sweep of the 2018 polls, the United Progressive Party (UPP) is… Read more
New law may help Govt go after ‘Mr Big’ Barbados Today14/03/20193799 views A Government senator suggested today that law enforcement target the proverbial ‘Mister Big’ – the invisible hand driving serious crime – and move beyond “boys on the block” as its… Read more
New crime proceeds law ‘an act of self-governance’ Barbados Today14/03/20197131 views The passing of the Proceeds and Instrumentalities of Crime Bill has been praised as an example of the Labour Party Government’s “self-governance”. In giving the new law her full support,… Read more