TORONTO, Canada – Legendary rider Patrick Husbands has again hinted at retirement after guiding 8-5 favourite Sir Winston to a thrilling capture of the season-ending CAN$155 000 Valedictory Stakes at Woodbine here Sunday. The 48-year-old produced a late bid aboard the Mark Casse-trained five-year-old chestnut horse to edge stablemate Frosted Over by half-length in a […]
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The independent body monitoring the progress of Government’s International Monetary Fund-backed economic recovery programme wants a full reopening of the economy. The Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation Plan Monitoring Committee (BERT MC) says it’s crucial to getting the country back on a path of growth amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Delivering the BERT MC’s 12th public […]
There is perhaps nothing more palpably pathetic than listening to West Indian captains trying to speak positively after unending defeats. But if one really wanted to find ineffectiveness dressed in finery, one need not look any further than the present Cricket West Indies (CWI) administration. Much has been written about the state of affairs of […]
SOURCE: BBC NEWS – Lewis Hamilton beat Max Verstappen in a chaotic and controversial Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to set up a winner-takes-all title finale in Abu Dhabi next weekend. In one of the most dramatic grands prix in years, the race was stopped twice, featured three starts and had an extraordinary series of events […]
Sickening! That’s extremely apt in summing up the West Indies showing in the second and final Test against Sri Lanka as Dimuth Karunaratne’s team swept to a 164-run win on the last day today, and a clean sweep of the series in Galle. Having watched virtually every single ball in the series at challenging times […]
At least half the households in the Caribbean and Latin American have not been able to recover income levels before the pandemic, leading to serious erosion in standards of education and health among other indicators, a survey released this week said. The survey by the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) analysed […]
by Marlon Madden Barbadians are being cautioned not to expect any decrease in commodity prices until sometime next year, even if globally the rate of inflation starts to fall. This caution comes from noted economist Jeremy Stephen who told Today’s BUSINESS in a recent interview that he expected oil prices to continue to rise in […]
Barbadian consumers have been assured by importers that there will be enough food items on the shelves this Christmas, but a leading trade specialist is warning that the region is not immune to the crippling disruptions being witnessed in the developed world. Dr Kai-Ann Skeete, a research fellow at the Shridath Ramphal Centre for Trade […]
The region’s leading lending institution is cautioning Barbados and other borrowing member countries to be careful how they allocate and use their stock of debt. The warning came from President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr Hyginus Gene Leon during the final episode of the Central Bank of Barbados’ 2021 Economic Forum on […]
Shareholders of Republic Bank Group, which incorporates the operations of Republic Bank Barbados, saw a near 50 per cent jump in profits to the tune of US$195.8 million (BDS $391.6 million) for the financial year ended September 30, 2021. In its recently published audited annual group results, Republic Bank reported profit attributable to equity holders […]