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As officials broke ground on Tuesday to make way for the new Hotel Indigo on the south of the island, Prime Minister Mia Mottley gave the assurance that Barbados’ ageing tourism product is in line for a major transformation with new hotel construction and continued upgrading of old properties.Mottley said her government was prepared to build on the $300 million Barbados Employment Sustainability and Transformation (BEST) programme, which propped up the tourism industry during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, by working closely with the private sector to refresh the industry.“We have do...

Member of Parliament for The City Corey Lane is promising a revitalisation of Bridgetown sooner rather than later. “The City will be back. We’ve started with Golden Square Freedom Park. There is the work ongoing at Fairchild Street, and where there is a shanty town near the river, we are going to convert that as well,” he said. He said he did a walk-through of The City about two weeks …

Construction of a new hotel on the Hastings, Christ Church site of the former Caribbee Hotel is expected to begin by the middle of this year. This is according to the hotel’s project manager James Edghill, who told the MIDWEEK NATION on Tuesday the property, adjacent to the popular Richard Haynes Boardwalk, was purchased by a regional developer who plans to build a 120-room, internationally-branded, four-star hotel there. He added …