Business

Pitch to boost business facilitation

The global business sector is keen to continue working with Government and other partners to improve business facilitation in Barbados. Joanna Austin, president of BIBA, the Association for...

Barbados helping to spearhead US$500m disaster emergency fund

Barbados is playing a leading role in an international effort to secure a major new financial lifeline if...

Power hike concern

Questions and concerns are being raised about the fuel-related hike in electricity costs which Barbados Light & Power...

Accountants target social change

Finance is emerging at the frontline of social change in the Caribbean, according to the world’s largest talent...

Karen Yip Chuck appointed Republic Financial Holdings CEO

Republic Financial Holdings Limited has appointed Karen Yip Chuck as its Group President and Chief Executive Officer, subject...

Agencies closing

IT COULD BE a bleak Christmas and a not-so-prosperous new year for workers at a number of State agencies.Highly placed sources in the Ministry...

Decades on the edge

MENTION THE WORD landslide in Barbados and instantly the village of White Hill, St Andrew, comes to mind.That’s because over the past three decades...

IT MATTERS TO MARIA: ‘Change asbestos roof’

A MAN is pleading with the National Housing Corporation to change the old asbestos roof from the unit which his mother has been occupying...

Travelling man

TO CALL Torbjorn Pedersen well-travelled would be a gross understatement.That’s simply because in the past 13 months Thor, as he is more affectionately called,...

Ex-hotelier launches book on Ocean View

A FORMER HOTELIER is the latest Barbadian to launch an effort to preserve Barbados’ history.Owner of the Fisherpond Plantation and former proprietor of the...

‘Look out’ for fake money

THE CENTRAL BANK OF BARBADOS is warning businesses to be aware of counterfeit currencies in the lead-up to Christmas.Deputy director responsible for currency at...