BY SHARON AUSTIN | FEB 17, 2023 Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley signing the extension of the Social Compact between Government and the private sector, at Ilaro Court recently. Looking on are Chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association, Trisha Tannis (left) and Senior Minister with responsibility for Coordinating the Productive Sector, Kerrie Symmonds. (C. […]
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BY SHARON AUSTIN | FEB 15, 2023 Hearing Chairman and Fair Trading Commission (FTC) Deputy Chair, Dr. Donley Carrington and CEO of the FTC, Dr. Marsha Atherley-Ikechi listen to questions from the media at today’s press conference. (GP) The Fair Trading Commission (FTC) has issued its Decision and Order on the Barbados Light and Power […]
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BY SHARON AUSTIN | FEB 13, 2023 PICTURED ABOVE: From left to right – Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, Rodney Taylor; Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology, Davidson Ishmael; Attorney General Dale Marshall; and his St. Vincent and the Grenadines counterpart, Grenville Williams, in discussion during the break of the three-day workshop on Effective […]
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BY SHARON AUSTIN | FEB 14, 2023 Barbados has been removed from the European Union’s (EU) state-of-play document (Annex II), which means the island has been deemed compliant with tax requirements. This disclosure came from Minister of Energy and Business, Senator Lisa Cummins, who said the announcement today follows the substantial work done by government […]
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BY GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS | FEB 14, 2023 Government’s Budget, setting out the Estimates of Expenditure and Revenue for the financial year 2023-2024, was today laid in Parliament, together with a projected forecast for the current financial year 2022-2023. These will form the basis of the Parliamentary Debate to ensue from February 20th 2023 on […]
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BY SHARON AUSTIN | FEB 10, 2023 Minister of Energy and Business, Senator Lisa Cummins, discussing the range of local beauty care products with Liena Babb of Emerging Brands Barbados Co-operative Society Limited, at the Co-op Mart at Baobab Tower, today. (A. Reid/BGIS) The creativity of the co-operative movement was on display today when the […]
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BY SHARON AUSTIN | FEB 9, 2023 Minister of Energy and Business, Senator Lisa Cummins, in discussion with Economic Advisor, Commonwealth Secretariat, Victor Kitange, at yesterday’s opening of the three-day Energy Local Content Capacity Building Workshop. Looking on (from left to right) are Consultant, Commonwealth Secretariat, Dr. Bede Nwete; Economist, Ministry of Energy and Business, Alton Best; […]
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BY PUBLIC RELATIONS | FEB 4, 2023 Dr. Kevin Greenidge (pictured) will become the Central Bank of Barbados’ eight Governor on March 1, 2023. (FP) The Central Bank of Barbados is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kevin Greenidge as its eighth Governor, effective March 1, 2023. Dr. Greenidge was most recently a Senior […]
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BY GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS (Stock Photo) The manufacturing community has lost one of its greatest pioneers and Barbados has lost one of its most industrious sons. Mr. McDonald Nicholls was one of the leading pioneers in the area of bread and pastry manufacturing having taken over the reins of his family business in 1995 at […]
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BY PUBLIC RELATIONS | JAN 20, 2023 | Acting Director of the Barbados National Standards Institution (BNSI), Haydn Rhynd, speaking at the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) symposium Accelerate to Export Symposium 2022. (NCF) How would a consumer respond if a packaged product claims to contain a particular ingredient but does not, or it is labelled as […]
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