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...

REMEMBERING DAVID: St John cries for David

GONE TOO SOON!As a nation mourned, shaken to the core by the death of Prime Minister David Thompson, despair and grief gripped those in...

REMEMBERING DAVID: Air of sadness in City

SHOCK, SADNESS and stoicism were the dominant features last Saturday as Bridgetown tried to come to grips with the death of Prime Minister David...

Murder-accused remanded to Dodds

POLICE HAVE ARRESTED and charged Hammond Tennyson Hinds with murder.The 36-year-old of Crab Hill, St Lucy appeared in the Holetown Magistrates Court yesterday to...

Temporary restriction on EU and UK poultry

THE MINISTRY OF Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Management has, with immediate effect, placed a temporary restriction on all poultry and poultry products...

Change coming in garbage collection

WRITTEN SCHEDULES for garbage collection are part of the changes in the works to improve the service delivery of the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA)...

Do what’s best for public, says PM

PRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart has urged the management of Cable and Wireless Communications and Columbus International Inc.  to explain the proposed merger to customers,...