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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: Levelling the playing field

What can only be described as a battle royal to bring the home sharing platform Airbnb into line with the traditional compliant tax paying...

BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Clinton the better choice

To millions of people across the United States and indeed around the world, the names Eric Holder and Colin Powell quite rightly trigger thoughts...

AS I SEE THINGS: Constitutional reform and national development

For the longest time, Caribbean countries have been functioning with constitutions that were inherited from the British, even though those countries moved, several decades...

A passion for words

He is passionate about words and he knows their power, and for the last year or so Robert Gibson has embarked on a path...

ON THE RIGHT: Devaluation no magic bullet

Is Barbados facing the threat of a currency devaluation? When I do hear or read anything about devaluation in Barbados, I am always reminded of...

ON THE LEFT: Fixed exchange rate outdated

Is Barbados facing the threat of a currency devaluation? Since 1971, we have been in a floating currency world. When  former United States President Richard...