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$12 million BIDC hole Article by March 16, 2021 Pay your rent, was the message Minister of International Business Ronald Toppin sent on  Monday to delinquent tenants of the Barbados Investment & Development  Corporation (BIDC), who owe the agency some $12 million. The situation is now so bad that the BIDC’s acting Chief Executive Officer Dwaine Stuart told Parliament Monday it was “really hampering” the operations of the state agency. The financial bind, in which the business development and export promotion agency finds itself, was outlined Monday during the first...

Article by Social Share When its budget was approved last year, Government did not see a COVID-19 crisis coming. But the pandemic’s subsequent devastating impact on health, the economy and the public purse will cast a shadow over this year’s Estimates Debate as it starts in the House of Assembly today at 10 a.m. Debate on the Appropriation Bill, 2021, is scheduled to be piloted by Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Ryan Straughn. Throughout this week, the minister, his Cabinet colleagues and senior civil servants are expected to outline the Mia Amor Mottley administration’s ne...

Overseas Barbadians keen to return and work in genetics Article by March 14, 2021 There is keen interest from some Barbadians living overseas to return to their homeland and assist the country with genomic testing and genetics to detect the presence of new COVID-19 variants and also research into cancer and other diseases. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and Chair of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on COVID-19, Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott, made this disclosure during a live press conference Saturday evening. The Minister told viewers that discussions had already sta...