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Economic growth slows for Barbados

Barbados’ economy has now expanded for 21 consecutive quarters. However,...

Port reforms ‘could save $19m’

The Barbados Chamber Of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) is...

AM Best upgrades Sagicor

Financial services group Sagicor Financial Company Limited, including its...

BiMPay ‘right move’

Governor Dr The Most Honourable Kevin Greenidge is again...

Fees fuel bank profits

Commercial banks are consistently making a large share of...

Financial markets ‘rebound from Iran war’

Global financial markets have rebounded from the disruptions caused...

CIBC earns ‘solid’ US$55.8m

CIBC Caribbean Bank Limited, which is now implementing a new country management model, is reporting “solid” net income of US$55.8 million for the first...

Trade woes spill into rum

The Caribbean rum industry is already getting an unwelcome taste of the fallout from the shifting global economic and political landscape, including major United...

‘Dropping 11-Plus key to ending elitism’

Education transformation that ends the elitism still haunting the society is what Barbados needs, and abandoning the Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination is key...

CDB secures US$460M fund boost

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has secured a US$460 million replenishment of its Special Development Fund (SDF) as its new President Daniel Best promises...

Sagicor’s caution to shareholders

Sagicor is cautioning its shareholders in Barbados and elsewhere about a mini-tender offer New York Stock and Bond LLC has made to buy up...

Straughn likely to take on portfolio

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has signalled that Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn is likely to have full responsibility for that...

Mottley prepared to lose US visa

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is prepared to lose her United States (US) visa if there is no “sensible agreement” regarding an American government...

Mottley: About $120m in grants obtained

Barbados has benefitted from about $120 million in grants as a result of international travel by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley. Mottley revealed in the...

Poultry industry ‘feeling heat’

The Poultry industry is feeling the heat from climate change. Montrose Holdings Limited managing director Dominic De Freitas says this is the reality facing his...

Budget of ‘bounty’

Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn was the man of the hour yesterday. It was an historic day for the MP for Christ...