Barbados Customs & Excise mark 121 years

What do you really know about Barbados Customs and Excise Department? For many people, their experience with Customs may be limited to declaring goods at the airport, collecting a package...

Royal Caribbean, Sandals strike deal

Global vacation company Royal Caribbean Group is acquiring half of Caribbean all-inclusive resort brand Sandals Resorts for about...

Mottley: Build our own trade routes

NEW YORK – Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley says Caribbean and African countries have a duty to create...

Energy insecurity hurting Caribbean

Economist Marla Dukharan is urging the Caribbean to do more to achieve energy sovereignty as the ongoing international...

US$144m savings boost for Barbados

Barbados has secured more than US$144 million in fiscal savings through innovative debtfor- nature and debt-forclimate transactions, creating...

TOURISM MATTERS: Supply versus demand

I have spent much of the last week identifying restaurants that are not in the re-DISCOVER lunch initiative to give them an equal opportunity...

NUPW threat ‘absolute madness’

THE IMPASSE BETWEEN Government and the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) stands to threaten Barbados at a most critical time.That’s the bleak assessment...

GAIA go-slow at a bad time

MINISTER OF TOURISM and International Transport Richard Sealy will remain mum on the go-slow action at Barbados’ ports of entry – until he has...

Hardball paying off for BIDC

WHEN IT COMES to delinquent tenants, the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) has been playing hardball of late.The country’s leading industrial estates landlord...

Every face is a canvas

Kimberly Proverbs is an artist, but not in the traditional sense. Instead of a canvas or paper, the face painter uses sponges and brushes...

BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Barbados a leader in rule of law

An example of mixed blessings? Probably. Except for the Golden Jubilee independence celebrations, the Jason Holder-led West Indies team’s victory over Pakistan in the...