Thursday, April 30, 2026

‘Do more for business’

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Barbados and other Caribbean countries will become unattractive to investors unless they get more serious about facilitating business activity.

Massy Holdings Group president and chief executive officer Gervase Warner sounded that warning while participating in a panel discussion earlier this week in the Central Bank’s 41st Annual Review Seminar.

The Trinidadian business executive called having to deal with multiple regulators in the Caribbean a “great nuisance” to business, adding the region’s firms would prefer to have one “robust” stock exchange.

He also urged the region to mobilise its financial resources to solve its own problems, rather than relying too much on foreign investors. (SC)

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