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...

Light Show Protest Ahead of COP11 and Why it Matters for the Caribbean

Liza Katsiashvili Something out of the ordinary was noticed at the WHO’s COP11 venue last week in Geneva. A light show illuminated the building’s walls,...

Make ‘people more resilient’

One of the Caribbean’s leading economists is urging Barbados and other islands in the region to establish public investment funds and pump more money...

Duguid: Region needs the best infrastructure

Minister of Planning and Development Dr William Duguid believes the Caribbean’s survival now depends on the design, financing and construction of the best infrastructure. He...

Fiscal performance ‘must improve’

Barbados has not had an investment grade credit rating for more than ten years and to get one, Government will have to significantly improve...

Insurer laments rising crash costs

With Barbados averaging about 15 vehicle collisions per day, a leading insurer says this is no longer sustainable as it is costing the country...

King: Prepare for transfer pricing

Newly-appointed Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA) Revenue Commissioner Jason King is urging corporations to prepare their operations for the introduction of explicit transfer pricing tax...