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Capsicum chinense—the Scotch Bonnet pepper. A sure fire way to distinguish between ‘locals’ and ‘foreigners’ at a Caribbean dinner table is to listen out for the request for ‘pepper sauce,’ a hot and tangy flavouring that is typically made of the indigenous Scotch Bonnet, otherwise known as Scotty Bon, Scotchy, Bonney Pepper or scientifically, Capsicum Chinense. The Scotch Bonnet is the main commercial variety of pepper in the region, having achieved this status through a process of repeated selection based on aroma, pungency, flavour, yield, and disease and pest tolerance. Ori...

Asif Ahmad, British High Commissioner to Jamaica. Last week, I listened to an interview with the British High Commissioner to Jamaica H.E. Asif Ahmad. He was talking about the potential for increasing trade between Jamaica and the United Kingdom (UK) in goods and services. Of course, on January 1, 2021, whether or not the UK has concluded a trade agreement with the European Union (EU), the transition period will be over and the UK fully exits the EU. This means that the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM)-UK Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), the trade agreement, will take effect. In my article...

#BTColumn – Pack your talent Article by December 19, 2020 Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados Today. by Donna Every I’ve just finished Pack Your Talent, a seven-week program sponsored by Caribbean Export and delivered by Taiana Mora of Nex Consulting from the Dominican Republic. It was designed to help professionals and service providers to prepare, package and market their services for export. The program was phenomenal! First of all, it was action learning, so as we went...