Barbados News

DLP Column :Signs of recovery 12/18/2009 The year 2009 is drawing to a close with prospects of an improved outlook in 2010.

Dulal-Whiteway, a chartered accountant, received the Chaconia Medal , the nationa s second highest honour, at the 2008 Independence Day awards for a oelong and meritorious service to T&Ta in business.

DLP Column :Tourism - Working for Barbados 12/14/2009 Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy and his team are to be commended for seeking to mitigate the fall out from the drop in tourist arrivals.

By Sharon Austin BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Barbadians have been given the assurance that this country is committed to the regional anti-doping fight.

By Eyvette McClean BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- A government minister has expressed concern that Barbados has become too secular.

By Sharon Austin BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Entrepreneurship is crucial to the economic growth and development of Barbados.

BLP Column : No energy and no sense 12/7/2009 Barbadians are paying dearly for the Democratic Labour Party's failing grade on national energy policy.

The northern part of Barbados is one of its least developed regions, but it's also among the most beautiful.

By Cathy Lashley BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Prime Minister David Thompson has warned that "without careful planning and development, Barbados could unwittingly contribute to its own demise". Prime Minister David Thompson, and Minister of Tourism, Richard Sealy, are pictured tee-ing off following the official opening of Apes Hill Club and Golf Course.

MEMBERS of the public who may have been thinking about catching a last glimpse of the departing Heads of State who attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting were disappointed yesterday, as their departures lacked the pomp and ceremony associated with their arrivals at Piarco International Airport.

DLP Column : Our future 11/16/2009 Prime Minister David Thompson has remained resolute in his calls for a safer environment for our youth.

Former Barbadian prime minister Owen Arthur says the rise of trade liberalisation and globalisation was making a massive impact in the world, and less developed countries within the Caribbean are forced to face more challenges.

Dear Sir: I read with interest in Caribbean Net News, which is on the ball with regional news, that CARICOM will send a team to St Vincent to observe the Referendum.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Barbados government cannot afford to spend 20 percent of its gross domestic product on education, "just to help young people get better qualifications only to find a job". Parliamentary Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner, made this observation on Saturday, ...

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Barbados government has agreed to hire a consultant to seek new areas of employment for Barbadians overseas.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Caribbean nations want Barbados to explain to them how "this small country, with limited resources, facing a crisis of the magnitude that it has, was able to achieve [sustainability] without having major social unrest, or political upheaval". Prime Minister David Thompson and Central Bank Governor, ...

You know you're in Barbados when the Prime Minister himself runs up a red flag about the feared impact on Caribbean tourism of a new British travel-tax increase.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Too many young people are escaping "religious-based, moral education and society is paying the penalty in the form of widespread anti-social behaviour among our young people". This view was expressed by Prime Minister David Thompson, last Saturday, during an address at the Installation and Awards ...

Rejecting opposition forecasts, Government is predicting a ten per cent decline in tourist arrivals by year-end. a oeWe will not finish this year [with arrivals] up,a Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy conceded during a news conference at his office in the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre on Saturday.

WITHIN weeks of holding their respective 71st anniversary annual conference, there was a virtual reversal of moods, at the leadership level, for Jamaica's opposition People's National Party and the opposition Barbados Labour Party in Barbados, compared with what had prevailed a year ago.