BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Are we ready and open for business? Recently, Dr. Patrick Antoine, chief economic advisor to the new Grenada Government declared this was now so in his country. You would be aware that Grenadians also had the opportunity last week to speak with the vote. A mere two d...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - The way to outrun the competition in the international market is to improve productivity. This was the advice given by Dr. Delisle Worrell, Governor of Central Bank of Barbados (CBB). Delivering his address at the opening ceremony of the Week of Excellence at the Gra...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The 2013 election is now over and the votes have been counted, disappointments and jubilation expressed and we have begun to return to normalcy. The Prime Minister is busy choosing his Cabinet and in due course the senators will be chosen and the debate on the annual Estimates...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - PRIME MINISTER FREUNDEL STUART has been able to achieve levels of support on par with former Prime Minister Owen Arthur. This is the view of the Democratic Labour (DLP) which, in a statement from its general secretary George Pilgrim yesterday, said Stuart had shown in two year...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Barbadian voters kept with tradition and provided the incumbent party with a second consecutive term in power following a nerve jangling general elections here on Thursday. According to the preliminary results, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) won 16 of the 30 seats in t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbadians have elected a new administration to govern this country’s affairs for the next four to five years. Once again, Barbadians can congratulate themselves on a peaceful elections period, devoid of the violence, rifts and fierce territorial demarcations that charac...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THIS IS THE DAY and now is the moment. Barbadians will cast their vote today to elect an administration to govern the island for the next five years. As a people, we need to appreciate the importance of the vote and not pass on the opportunity, only to complain at a later date...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbadians Thursday began casting their votes in a general elections that political observers say could be historic if the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) fails to win a second five year term in power. No government since the island attained its political indep...

“…the flyingfish has been recognised as the single most important small pelagic species in the southern Lesser Antilles.” BELIZE CITY, BELIZE; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013 – On Friday, 22 February 2013, the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will convene a meet...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Feb 20, CMC – Barbadians go to the polls to elect a new government on Thursday with opinion polls predicting a victory for the main opposition Barbados labour Party (BLP). But Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is telling voters that his ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) ,...