Barbados Business News

The Antigua and Barbuda government is tightening financial regulations. Government will be seeking amendments wherever necessary to the legislative and regulatory frameworks that buttress our off-shore financial regime," she said this week in her Throne Speech which was boycotted by...

Barbados' new Central Bank Governor says there's no need to worry about the recent downgrade in the country's economic outlook by rating firm, Standard & Poor's (S&P). In fact, Dr DeLisle Worrell says it doesn't mean much considering Barbados is...

Triple objects in sustainability Mary King Monday, November 23rd 2009 Sustainable socio-economic development is a triple conflation of the environmental, social and economic goals reflected in our policies, objectives and strategies with minimum trade-offs.

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...