Flow customers complain of higher cell bills

Some FLOW Barbados customers are reporting unexpected increases on their latest mobile postpaid bills, with the telecommunications company acknowledging that a recent change to its billing system resulted in...

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...

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...

BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Embargo still a reality

“FAR FROM IT. Based on all the information available, the issue is far from dead.”After all the hoopla of a United States (US) presidential...

IMF predicts 1.7 % growth to 2017

THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY Fund (IMF) appears to have a slightly more optimistic view about Barbados’ economic growth prospects than the Central Bank.But the IMF...

BREA: Alternative energy plan a must

THE DAYS OF an ad hoc approach to renewable energy in Barbados could soon be over.The Barbados Renewable Energy Association (BREA), which is on...

Indiscipline to blame

BARBADOS’ LARGE APPETITE for consumption and Government’s unwillingness to demonstrate fiscal discipline will come back to haunt the island.And while he declined to say...

Sam Lord’s still ‘on track’

ANXIETY APPEARS to be rising over the planned US$200 million Wyndham Sam Lord’s Castle resort in St Philip as work there appears to have...

Fallout from project that floundered

RETIRED CONTRACTOR Trevor Kent is being accused of “double standards” concerning his struggle against the building of a hotel in Sea Rocks, Enterprise, Christ...