Barbados Business News

The Antigua and Barbuda government has started talks on Public Private Partnerships with the business community as a way of delivering high quality infrastructure and services to citizens. Chief Implementation Officer in the Office of the Prime Minister, Ambassador Joan...

Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government says it will not implement a stimulus package to help improve the local economy, warning to do so would result in “dangerous side effects” for the country. “We have had to do a balancing...

International credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's has lowered Barbados' outlook from stable to negative and warned of a further downgrade if government doesn't take steps the right steps to reverse the current situation. "The outlook revision on Barbados to...

The Barbados government is moving swiftly to have the much-touted Financial Services Commission, (FSC) in place by next year. That assurance has come from Minister of International Business and International Transport, George Hutson, who said the administration had already approved...

US$400m needed Juhel Browne jbrowne@trinidadexpress.com Tuesday, November 10th 2009 British American Insurance Company, a subsidiary of the CL Financial group, needs to be replaced by a new company at a cost of US$400 million (TT$2.4 billion).

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...