BERT on track

The latest report of the social partnership monitoring committee of the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation or BERT program states that the government has met all of its targets. Chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association, Edward Clarke, this morning presented a report on behalf of the committee.

Republic Bank workers off the job

More than two hundred employees of Republic Bank in Barbados are off the job. This morning instead of showing up for work, the staff of the bank gathered at the Barbados Workers Union headquarters at Solidarity House in protest over the state of pay talks and a job evaluation. The BWU’s Deputy General Secretary, Dwayne […]