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Pine Hill Dairy (PHD) is negotiating a subsidy with Government in an effort to revive the local dairy industry which has been plagued with several challenges for years.Shafia London, country manager of Banks Holding Limited, the parent company of PHD, told Barbados TODAY in an interview that Government’s intervention in the industry was urgently needed to pull the sector out of hot water.Although London did not disclose any details about what PHD had proposed, she said she was satisfied with the progress of the meetings and had faith that a positive outcome would be realised.“We have been ...

United States (US) representative Mark Green has warned Barbados and other Caribbean countries that accepting investment opportunities from economic powerhouse China would come at a price.He issued the warning on Thursday as he promised a deepening of security links between the US and the region to transform island economies.Green’s advice came amidst rising tensions between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as a Beijing invasion of Taiwan looms.It also came against the background of Chinese investment and aid here. Almost completed is the multi-million-dollar Wyn...

Retired actuary Charles Herbert has raised an alarm over the major decline in the number of people contributing to the National Insurance (NIS), as he questioned Government’s rationale for continuing to pay non-contributory pensions.“I don’t really understand the room for non-contributory pension. That doesn’t seem to be accountable to the public,” he said on Tuesday night during an Institute of Chartered Account of Barbados (ICAB) webinar on Our NIS - The Way Forward.The latest review of the NIS showed that the number of employees plus self-employed contributors to the scheme had fa...

Attorney Ernest Winston Jackman who was convicted of stealing and using over half a million dollars of a client’s money says he is “embarrassed and ashamed” to be appearing before the law court in this “capacity and position”.The 67-year-old St Philip resident made the declaration as he addressed Madam Justice Pamela Beckles on Monday.Jackman has been on remand at Dodds prison since May 31 after being found guilty by a jury of stealing $678 414.75 from HEJ Limited between June 23, 2006 and March 5, 2007.He was also convicted of engaging in money laundering by disposing of the sum bet...

The Barbados Association of Retailers, Vendors and Entrepreneurs (BARVEN) has stepped in to fight for farmers at River Plantation, St Philip whose land is being taken away by the Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC).President Alister Alexander on Thursday instructed the farmers not to stop their operations and assured them that his association would back them at all costs.“BARVEN will fight. We have no choice but to fight cause that is what we do – fight for justice,” he declared.It was reported in another section of the media last month that some farmers w...