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BiMPay transactions hit $6b

BiMPay, Barbados’ national instant payment system established by the...

Pitch to boost business facilitation

The global business sector is keen to continue working...

Barbados helping to spearhead US$500m disaster emergency fund

Barbados is playing a leading role in an international...

Global tensions ‘driving up costs’

Until geopolitical issues, including wars in major international markets...

Power hike concern

Questions and concerns are being raised about the fuel-related...

Accountants target social change

Finance is emerging at the frontline of social change...

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...

All eyes on Budget speech

When Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn delivers the Budget Speech today in the House of Assembly, he will be doing so...