Port couple succumbed to Covid-19
A husband and wife, both of employees of the Bridgetown Port are the latest to succumb to covid-19. They passed away at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility, the husband on Saturday and the wife on Sunday. Minister of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy, Kirk Humphrey, tells Starcom Network News counselors have been brought in […]
Simpson Motors merger deal
The Simpson Motors Group, one of Barbados’ largest and most successful locally-owned businesses is being merged with and international automotive distributor, Inchcape PLC. The announcement was made today by Sir Kyffin Simpson, the founder of – Simpson Motors and its regional automotive distribution arm, ITC. He said agreement had been reached for what he called […]
BERT Monitoring Committee: Slow economic recovery
Government continues to meet its fiscal and monetary targets under the IMF-sanctioned Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) program including the debt ceiling and expenditure limits. This, despite is spending an extra hundred million dollars on the volcanic ash clean-up and battling the covid-19 pandemic. However, the BERT Monitoring Committee set-up under the Social Partnership […]