Barbados Business News

Barbados' Prime Minister David Thompson has given kudos to local company, Lynch Insurance Brokers Limited, for remaining in business for 150 years, despite periods of global economic difficulty. And he has advised that the learning from this ongoing economic downturn...

Former Deputy Governor at the Barbados Central Bank, Dr DeLisle Worrell, has returned to the institution to take up the post as its sixth Governor. The economist previously worked at the Bank between 1973 and 2000, serving as Manager of...

The global recession continues to restrict growth in Barbados, with a 4.4 per cent decline in the economy for the first three quarters of the year. The January to September months also marked the worst slump in tourism, for that...

OR TWO funny business tony deyal Wednesday, October 28th 2009 Mr Jones, the undertaker in the little village in which I grew up, was a very friendly person (the last man to let you down) who was on excellent terms...

The Sunday Times can reveal that Roger Lane-Smith, JJB’s former chairman, spent a week at Whelan’s Barbados holiday home last autumn, during which time he attended a poolside meeting with JJB’s former chief executive Chris Ronnie and Whelan where the...

Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has said that he is not scared about approaching the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an assistance package as his government faces a huge debt that has hugely affected its ability to access...

Aldershot Football Club, has found a new venture: an airline that will fly between London and Barbados. Mr Trethewy, who is being sued by singer Whitney Houston for allegedly posing as her agent, plans to host a gala launch of...

A similar action in 2002, also featuring one of next week’s participants, blew the lid off the seamy, if highly paid, world of bond trading, with accounts of visits to lap-dancing clubs, constant foul language and aggressive bullying of staff,...

Top St Lucian hotelier Andrew Barnard believes the island's North American Road Show series for travel partners is helping to put it on the map, and that with new airlift coming on stream, the country is well positioned for bumper business...Barnard said...

The Barbados Government is taking a number of steps, including negotiating multiple loans, to cushion the effect on the island's critical sectors if the global recession deepens. In light of the uncertain economic outlook, Minister of Economic Affairs and Empowerment,...