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...

Digital money ‘no problem’

BARBADIANS MIGHT BE willing to use digital currencies once they can overcome their “limited knowledge” about this form of payment.Cash payments, and in more...

International tax policies working to detriment of smaller countries

BARBADOS is not at all happy with industrialised nations whose policies and legislative reforms influence tax administration and regulation in developing countries.And Minister of...

Need for better service in Barbados

BARBADIANS MUST IMPROVE the level of service delivery.And Minister of Industry and Commerce Donville Inniss called on them to create a culture of service...

Still trade hope with European Union

CHALLENGES EXIST, BUT there are also opportunities for Barbados and other countries in the region to enhance relations with the European Union.That’s the finding...

Government debt ‘worrisome’

BARBADOS’ GOVERNMENT DEBT is proving too bitter a pill for a leading investment firm to swallow.Royal Fidelity Merchant Bank & Trust Ltd. manages a...

TOURISM MATTERS: Exercising revenue control

I AM ALMOST incredulous that within a week or so the seeming eternity of the United States (US) presidential election campaign will be over...