Business

Chamber exploring alternative sources

The business community is intensifying efforts to help provide more affordable consumer prices as Barbadians continue to feel the pinch of a high cost of living. Barbados Chamber of Commerce...

BCCI: Business community working to ease cost of living

Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) president Paul Inniss says the business community is working to help...

Trinidad Cement Limited’s local results improve

The Barbados market is no longer contributing to its manufacturing output, but Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) says operations...

Massy still profiting in Barbados

Massy continues to profit from its operations in Barbados. The Trinidad and Tobago group’s unaudited consolidated financial statements for...

BRA identifies land tax glitch, some property owners to be refunded

Some Barbadians are due a land tax refund after a glitch overcharged residential owners whose properties are valued...

Concern over two-year citizenship

Questions are being raised about Government’s plan to reduce to two years the period in which Barbadian citizenship can be attained. The Barbados Bar Association (BBA)...

Sagicor gets Fitch upgrade

Sagicor has received a credit rating upgrade from Fitch Ratings. On October 21, the global credit rating agency announced that it “upgraded Sagicor Financial Company...

Digital payments surge

Consumer payments have shifted decisively towards digital options since 2019. As it prepares to launch the national instant payments system (IPS) BiMPay at the end...

CoopEnergy: BAMC in breach

The Barbados Sustainable Energy Cooperative Society (CoopEnergy) says that up to the time the Barbados Agricultural Management Company (BAMC) terminated the agreement between the...

JetBlue lauded for growing island’s reach in US

Barbados’ steady rise in the United States tourism market is being credited to a decadelong partnership with JetBlue Airways, which was yesterday lauded for...

Hurricane Melissa triggers 100% payout from World Bank Catastrophe Bond for Jamaica

The World Bank says the Government of Jamaica will receive a full payout of US$150 million under its catastrophe insurance coverage. In a statement on...