The Mia Mottley-led administration has no intention of relocating Government Headquarters from Bay Street to make way for any tourism project.
“This could not be further from the truth,” assured Senior Minister with responsibility for Planning and Infrastructure Dr William Duguid in a statement to the media on Tuesday.
He explained that plans for the area included modernising several buildings and expanding
By Emmanuel Joseph
One of the key players in the local construction industry says Government must share the blame for enabling some of the same unscrupulous labour practices in the sector that it’s now complaining about.
The Most Honourable Ralph Bizzy Williams, a director of C.O. Williams Construction Company Limited and retired executive chairman of Williams Industries said on Monday that the
By Anesta Henry
Minister of Home Affairs and Information Wilfred Abrahams has defended the Government’s decision to pay the severance of terminated Barbadian employees of Antigua-based LIAT (1974) Limited although they were employed in another country.
He said while the Mia Mottley-led administration had no legal obligation to pay severance to the former airline workers, it had done what was morally right
Government has met its first targets under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme which is funding the Barbados Economic Recovery Transformation (BERT) 2022 plan.
Following the first visit to the island since the Mia Mottley-led administration entered a second arrangement under the Enhanced Fund Facility (EFF) and first programme under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), an IMF team said Barbados
By Jenique Belgrave
Declaring that Barbados’ debt is too high, Democratic Labour Party (DLP) president Dr Ronnie Yearwood has challenged the Government to show how Barbadians are benefiting from the high level of borrowing.
He made the call as he charged that the administration is failing to implement growth strategies to get the country out of its current situation.
“The country is really