Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Business

RF mutual funds boost returns

RF Bank and Trust is reporting increased returns for three Barbados-based mutual funds that have a combined $73.3 million in assets. The $33 million Premium Income Fund, which is primarily invested...

Portvale repairs still incomplete

Grinding at Portvale Sugar Factory remained on pause yesterday as work continued to fix a mechanical failure since Thursday. A spokesman...

Caribbean Digital Transformation Institute launched

Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in Barbados and the Caribbean now have some additional help in their...

‘Let AI lift routine workload’

Administrative professionals are being urged by the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados to use AI rather...

Beyond the desk, Saluting Admin Professionals

If everything in your office just seems to work, from organised files and productive meetings to happy clients,...

BEHIND THE HEADLINES: How Bridgetown helped make an empire

As demands for reparatory justice become more emphatic across the Caribbean, Barbados included, thoughts about Empire and the exceedingly brutal period of West Indian...

Some NCC beach facilities closed on Christmas Day

THE NATIONAL CONSERVATION Commission (NCC) has advised that a number of beach facilities will be closed tomorrow. They are Barclays Park, River Bay, Half Moon...

St Michael man on drug charges

POLICE HAVE FORMALLY charged 35-year-old Mark Anthony Blaggrove of Clarke’s Avenue, Bayville, St Michael in relation to the seizure of about 24 pounds of cannabis at...

Pay income tax refunds, urge accountants

The governing body for local chartered accountants is urging Government to pay taxpayers their due.While pointing to positive aspects of Minister of Finance Chris...

Egg shortage

A MECHANICAL FAILURE, which abruptly knocked 35 000 chickens out of the egg-laying business, left Barbadians scrambling for eggs yesterday, with supermarkets and other...

Jobs from farm project

A new organic farming project promising to provide jobs while producing food and bio-feeds using “special holistic” methods is under way in Barbados.And the community...