From mid-night September 8 consumers in Barbados will pay more for gasoline and diesel. The retail price of gasoline will be $3.81 BDS per litre, up from $3.78 BDS, 3 cents / 0.8% increase. The retail price of diesel will be $3.02 BDS per litre, up from $2.96 BDS, 6 cents / 2.0% more. (Source: Barbados Today).…
Read More Barbados Fuel Price Change September 2019SEP 13 2019 UPDATE: August 2019 saw at least three murders taking place in Barbados (35 for the year so far). The Nation and Barbados Today recently reported that two men have been charged with the murder of 22-year-old Rahim Ward sometime between Aug 23 and 30. Ward was reported missing around Aug 23. His…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics August 2019Reproduced with permission, the full text of Dr. Delisle Worrell – former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – September 2019 newsletter: Wind and solar power offer an exciting prospect of rapid growth and energy independence to a sunny island like Barbados, set out in the Atlantic in the path of the dependable trade…
Read More DeLisle Worrell: Barbados Needs A Road Map And Action Plan For RenewablesReproduced with permission, the full text of Dr. Delisle Worrell – former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – August 2019 newsletter: The main reason that Barbados slipped from Number 46 in the global competitiveness rankings to Number 72 in the most recent Global Competitiveness Report is the poor performance of our public sector.…
Read More DeLisle Worrell: Public Sector Reform Begins With the Timely Publication of Annual ReportsFrom mid-night August 4 consumers in Barbados will pay less for gasoline and diesel. The retail price of gasoline will be $3.78 BDS per litre, down from $3.86 BDS, 8 cents / 2.1% less. The retail price of diesel will be $2.96 BDS per litre, down from $3.02 BDS, 6 cents / 2.8% less. (Source: Barbados Government…
Read More Barbados Fuel Price Change August 2019July 2019 saw at least two murders taking place in Barbados (32 for the year so far). Both of them took place in St. Michael. The victims were male and died as a result of gun and knife related violence. The data was collected and compiled based on available media reports at the time. See below…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics July 2019Reproduced with permission, the full text of Dr. Delisle Worrell – former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados – July 2019 newsletter: The one question which always surfaces in response to my lecture “The time has come to permanently retire all our Caribbean currencies” (search for this title on Youtube) is about national sovereignty.…
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