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Muslim leaders urge vigilance as violent crime wave hits businesses
Barbados Today
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June 19, 2025
147 The Muslim community has stepped up security measures and warned members to remain vigilant, as a sharp rise in violent crime sweeps the island and disproportionately affects their businesses. With the country having already recorded 25...
Global Citizen summit targets finance reform, renewable energy scale-up
Times LIVE
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Global Citizen, the world’s leading advocacy organisation dedicated to ending extreme poverty, has announced that its flagship action summit, Global Citizen NOW, will take place at CaixaForum Sevilla in Spain on June 29. The event will convene...
Trinidad Finance Minister cites $9.67b deficit
Stabroek News
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June 19, 2025
(Trinidad Guardian) While there is a projected $9.67 billion deficit for the 2025 fiscal year and a loss of $556.7 million in revenue, Government’s economic rebuilding plan encompasses foreign exchange solutions – including reporting obligations...
Republic Bank CPL squads confirmed for 2025
Guyana Chronicle
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June 19, 2025
THE Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has confirmed all team squads for the 2025 season following the successful completion of the player draft. With several major international stars joining the tournament and a strong showing of...
Barbados Sparks Global Interest in Local Power Plans.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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June 18, 2025
- Advertisement - Barbados is seeing strong interest from investors in battery energy storage. Destine Gay, a senior technical officer in the Ministry of Energy and Business, spoke about this during the launch of the second phase of the Battery...
Local ageing population presents economic benefits
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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June 18, 2025
Barbados’ ageing population presents not only challenges but also opportunities for the economy. That’s according to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs, Mark Franklyn, who says opportunities include the...
Tancoo to tackle forex shortages: ‘We met the economy in the Intensive Care Unit’
Loop News
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Finance Minister Davendranath Tancoo has assured that the government plans to implement several initiatives to address the persistent foreign exchange (forex) shortages the country has been grappling with. Tancoo spoke during the UNC-led...
Republic Bank CPL Squads confirmed ...
SKNVibes
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June 18th, 2025 -- The Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has confirmed all team squads for the 2025 season following the successful completion of the player draft. With several major international stars joining the tournament and a...
Republic Bank CPL squads confirmed for 2025 edition
I News Guyana
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June 18, 2025
The Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has confirmed all team squads for the 2025 season following the successful completion of the player draft. With several major international stars joining the tournament and a strong showing of...
The Promises, Pitfalls, and Trade-offs of the Circular Economy
Harvard Business Review - Massachusetts
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June 18, 2025
HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR On Strategy—case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock new ways of doing business. Most businesses are built on a linear model: take, make, and...
Republic Bank CPL 2025 player draft...
SKNVibes
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Caribbean Premier League -- The Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is excited to announce that the official player draft show for the 2025 season will be broadcast on Wednesday, 18 June at 10am ECT/3pm BST/7:30pm IST. Fans across the...
$30M sports infrastructure boost for Barbados
Barbados Today
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June 18, 2025
41 The Ministry of Sports is delivering a major boost to nine national sporting bodies, with new facilities coming on stream through the National Sports Council’s (NSC) Capital Projects initiative. Athletics, cricket, netball, basketball,...
New climate school set to be built in Barbados
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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June 17, 2025
A new climate school is set to be built in Barbados. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has announced that construction of the new Chelston Academy in Chelston Park, Collymore Rock will start soon and should be completed within a year. She says...
Cruising in the UK Is More Than a Trip—It’s a Major Economic Driver
Cruise Hive
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June 17, 2025
Taking a cruise might be the holiday of a lifetime for many passengers, but for the UK, it’s big business, according to a new report. An independent June 2025 report by WPI Economics, commissioned by Carnival Corporation, says the company’s cruise...
UN, BCCI launch disaster planning toolkit for small businesses
Barbados Today
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June 17, 2025
64 Local small businesses are receiving critical support to improve their disaster preparedness through a new Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Toolkit launched on Tuesday. The initiative, a joint effort between the Barbados Chamber of Commerce...
TTMA nets over US$3.5M in non-energy trade: More trade missions planned in NY, China, Chile
Loop News
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June 17, 2025
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) said it has completed its fourth Trade Mission for this year to Guyana and Suriname, which yielded enormous returns in forex earnings of confirmed immediate orders in excess of USD$3.5...
Beyond pepper sauce: Charting a bold new path for Barbadian manufacturing and wellness brands
Barbados Today
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June 17, 2025
36 This year, I decided to take in some of what our local manufacturers had to offer at what I fondly remember as the Barbados Manufacturers’ Exhibition (BMEX). Originally launched in 1982 by the Barbados Manufacturers’ Association (BMA) to...
Project developers promoting invention on global stage
Barbados Today
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June 19, 2025
51 A groundbreaking Barbadian project that converts invasive sargassum seaweed into bio-compressed natural gas (bio-CNG) to power vehicles has attracted around $2 million in international funding, Barbados TODAY can confirm. Key officials behind...
Bank unveils green loans plan to unlock trillions for climate finance
The Guardian
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June 16, 2025
An innovative plan to use public money to back renewable energy loans in the developing world could liberate cash from the private sector for urgently needed climate finance. Avinash Persaud, a special adviser on climate change to the president of...
Government secures loan to help post-Beryl recovery
Barbados Today
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June 19, 2025
51 Barbados is receiving a US$54 million loan from the World Bank to fund the repair of vital infrastructure and safeguard vulnerable communities in the wake of Hurricane Beryl. The multi-year initiative is being backed by technical assistance...