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Artificial Intelligence

By Pat Hoyos    Published August 8, 2008
“...Government has been invited by a number of private sector joint-ventures involving significant local and foreign investors of good repute and business success, to facilitate the creation of ...
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As the interest rate pendulum swings

By Patrick Hoyos    Published July 28, 2008
Bajans continue to borrow money from the commercial banks and spend more on imports, despite economic troubles in  our major tourist-supplier countries but aided by a drop in interest rates last ...
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A call from the wild

By Patrick Hoyos    Published July 21, 2008
No doubt as a result of its relentless determination to lower the cost of living in Barbados, it has been revealed, the new Thompson administration is entertaining discussions with a company called N...
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A heightened mobility

By Patrick Hoyos    Published July 15, 2008
At the end of the day, it’s all about foreign exchange, because if you don’t have enough, or if it’s slipping through the Treasury’s coffers like sand through the hourglass, yo...
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IMF says Barbados inflation could hit 9% this year

By Patrick Hoyos    Published June 18, 2008
IMF says Barbados inflation could hit 9% this year Barbados’ inflation rate is expected to reach 9% this year from 4% last year, while economic growth will slow to 2 1/4% from 3 1/4% last year, ...
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Blue Communications Inc. launches prepaid phone card

By Pat Hoyos/The BSJ    Published June 17, 2008
Most consumers in Barbados may never have known until last Tuesday, when it launched its first prepaid international phone card, that the country had a fourth telecommunications company, Blue Communic...
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Report ranks Barbados 50th in "global competitiveness"

By Pat Hoyos/The BSJ    Published May 16, 2008
Barbados has been ranked the 50th most competitive country in the world in a survey of 131 countries, according to the Global Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum. The WEF, whi...
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Rum, chemicals and F&B still top list of Bajan exports

By Pat Hoyos/The BSJ    Published May 8, 2008
Although Barbados’ exports have been increasing fairly substantially over the past few years, the country’s trade deficit has not fallen at the same rate, due to the high demand for import...
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Banks Holdings warns that it will have to raise its prices due to the recent fuel price increases

By Pat Hoyos/The BSJ    Published April 29, 2008
The recent increases in fuel prices will lead to a hike in the products made by Banks Holdings Ltd., the company said in its half-yearly financial statement, which was published on Sunday, April 27. N...
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Total commercial bank lending continued to slow down in 2007, but the mortgage component kept on growing

By Pat Hoyos/The BSJ    Published April 21, 2008
Despite press reports that some commercial banks experienced slower growth in their mortgage business during the first quarter of 2008, the latest data from the Central Bank of Barbados suggests that ...
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