Business

Eye on financial sector links

The growing interconnectedness between commercial banks and other financial institutions in Barbados does not currently pose a significant systemic risk to the country’s financial system. However, a new study has...

Chamber exploring alternative sources

The business community is intensifying efforts to help provide more affordable consumer prices as Barbadians continue to feel...

BCCI: Business community working to ease cost of living

Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) president Paul Inniss says the business community is working to help...

Trinidad Cement Limited’s local results improve

The Barbados market is no longer contributing to its manufacturing output, but Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) says operations...

Massy still profiting in Barbados

Massy continues to profit from its operations in Barbados. The Trinidad and Tobago group’s unaudited consolidated financial statements for...

Google to invest $15bn to build AI data hub in India

Google's parent company Alphabet will invest $15bn (£11.29bn) to build an AI data hub in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state. The facility, which will be...

‘Economy resilient but testing times loom’

As officials from the Central Bank of Barbados and Ministry of Finance join their counterparts in Washington DC this week for the International Monetary...

12 000 jobs under Compete Caribbean

Compete Caribbean, a private sector development programme based in Barbados, has assisted 2 000 businesses and helped to create more than 12 000 new...

‘Go green or miss investment’

Go green or risk being gone from the investment map. Shania Taylor, an economic analyst in First Citizens’ economic research unit, says this is the...

Target ‘investment grade rating’

Economist Dr Ankie Scott-Joseph is warning that Barbados risks falling back into an expensive borrowing trap unless it regains an investment grade credit rating. “For...

Hope for big deals from trade forum

The first-ever GUBA Trade And Investment Forum and GUBA Awards to be held in the Caribbean will take place in Barbados next month, with organisers anticipating major deals...