BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - NICHE marketing and branding are opportunities Barbados should pursue to grow more of its exports. This suggestion has come from Matthew Wilson who is a Councillor at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva. He believes that every opportunity must be pursued more to p...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – THE FOCUS ACROSS BARBADOS at this time is on the pending February 21 general election. But it is also the high point of our 2012-2013 winter tourism season, which – no matter which party is victorious in the poll – will have to pay detailed...

HAMILTON, Barbados, Nation News – There is “an urgent need” for Caribbean Heads of Government to come together and meet on tourism. The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) board of directors said a tourism summit needs to take place within the next six months to ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - LATER this week the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will be having its say on the way regional economies performed in 2012. It is an occasion which many in the region looks forward to since the reports on regional economies allow analysts and other stakeholders to s...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is giving the private sector the assurance that Government has listened to their concerns about the impact that some new pieces of legislation could have on their businesses. His comments came last week while addressing a wide cross sec...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The main opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has launched its campaign for the February 21 general elections promising voters strong leadership to deal with the island’s socio-economic problems over the next five years. BLP leader and former prime minister ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean countries will be automatically alerted in the event of any major differences in sea level rise or major displacements due to earthquakes. Acting Director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU), Dr. Lorna Inniss, speaking at the launch of Caribe Wave ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - SO PRIME Minister Freundel Stuart has finally announced the date for next month’s general election. And he did so with a ‘scoop’ (as we say in the media) by upstaging all and sundry, including real and pretentious political gurus, in naming February 21 as the...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), says that the best is yet to come from that political party. His comments came as he spoke yesterday at the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s luncheon at the Hilton Hotel, the firs...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Late Chairman Mao Tse-Tung of China reportedly once said that without the loneliness and desolation of winter one would not appreciate the warmth and splendour of spring. This seems not to be the case with Egyptians and North Koreans. After initial flashes of goodwill from th...