April 17, 2021
After more than 60 years, the Chamber of Commerce’s duty-free facility at the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA), no longer considered a viable business, has “permanently” closed shop at the end of last month, the business association said Friday.
From the start of April, the Customs and Excise Department had assumed full responsibilities for the airport’s duty-free services, the chamber said in a statement.
A duty-free facility opened at the then Seawell Airport in 1959 with the passage of the 1958 Drawback of Duties on Sales of Goods to Tourists Regulations.
The facility provided services to local duty-free retailers on behalf of the Customs and Excise Department, specifically the handling of duty-free packages purchased by travellers, as well as the processing of volumes of third schedules (triplicate invoices) under the drawback regulations scheme.
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Message in recognition of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2021, from the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BBCI)
Bridgetown – The Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) joins the global community in challenging inequity and stereotypes in the workplace.
The challenge to businesses across all sectors to continuously strive for gender equity was issued by BCCI executive director, Misha Lobban-Clarke in recognition of International Women’s Day 2021.
“As we celebrate our achievements and strides, we also acknowledge that ‘an equal world is an enabled world’. We therefore challenge our collective efforts to bolster gender equality in all spheres in the interest of building and sustaining a more harmonised workplace, community and society,” Lobban-Clarke stated.
Goffe, who is a partner in the law firm Hart Muirhead Fatta, has practised pensions law and corporate law for over 17 years, and consistently lobbied for pension reform locally, believes now is a prime time for a change.
Sanya Goffe is making big moves. The 2020 Eisenhower Fellow, who has done significant work on pension reform to improve retirement security in Jamaica, is now leading the way into long-term investment opportunities as the chairperson of the Board of Stratus Alternative Funds SCC an investment vehicle designed by NCB Capital Markets Limited.
Goffe, who is a partner in the law firm Hart Muirhead Fatta, has practised pensions law and corporate law for over 17 years, and consistently lobbied for pension reform locally, believes now is a prime time for a change.