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...

AS I SEE THINGS: Developments in advanced economies

Caribbean countries are being challenged by the issues of correspondence banking and de-risking as well as labels like tax heavens. According to some analysts,...

Nigeria project pays off for BIMAP

THE NIGERIAN DELTA State programme paid big dividends for the Barbados Institute of Management of Productivity (BIMAP) last year.BIMAP’s chairman said the agency was...

ON THE RIGHT: A wait and see for Caribbean

Should the Caribbean be worried about receiving reduced support from the United States? United States foreign and trade policy could look very different in 2017....

ON THE LEFT: Pattern of declining support for region

Should the Caribbean be worried about receiving reduced support from the United States? The United States has long been a major contributor of foreign assistance...

THE ISSUE: Too early to tell

Should the Caribbean be worried about receiving reduced support from the United States?Some Barbadians and other Caribbean nationals reacted with trepidation at Donald Trump’s...

THE HOYOS FILE: How Trump upended the world

Like most of the people around the world who believed Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy was some sort of deviation from the norm that would...