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Celebrating 70 Years of supporting Barbadian businesses

For 70 years, the Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC) has been helping to shape how we work in Barbados. Most of us know the BEC for its work on employment matters...
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Heat drives rush for ACs, fans

As Barbados braces for intense heat in August, retailers are reporting stronger demand for fans and air conditioning...
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AM Best upgrades Sagicor

Financial services group Sagicor Financial Company Limited, including its Barbados-based subsidiaries, has received a series of credit rating...
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Fees fuel bank profits

Commercial banks are consistently making a large share of their profits from fees, including $152.6 million collected in...
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Frustrating waits at QEH pharmacy

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s (QEH) pharmacy is still struggling to make up the backlog as a result of...
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THE HOYOS FILE: How tourism helped us own ‘a piece of the rock’

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PROME MINISTER Freundel Stuart recently noted that in 1966 Barbados produced around 200 000 tonnes of sugar for export, compared to this year when...
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Tourism campaign on streets of London

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WITH THE NEXT winter tourist season about two weeks away, major players have a head start on the effort to get more British visitors...
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Experts: BNTCL sale could be bad for consumers

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HIGHER ELECTRICITY COSTS and petroleum prices are a certainty if Government sells the Barbados National Terminal Company Limited (BNTCL) to one entity as it...
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Social progress ‘uncharted’

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AS BARBADOS CELEBRATES Independence, authorities have been touting the island’s social progress.However, a new index published by a United States-based non-profit organisation has left...
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10-MINUTE MANAGER: Rhasheda Skeete

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ARE YOU WHERE you’ve always wanted to be?I try in life to always relish the moment, live in the now. So I’d rather say...
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Tesla’s power play

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TESLA CONTINUES TO push the barriers of our reality today, with the announcement of the Powerwall 2 and the Solar Roof. These are not...
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