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Barbados wants to ban Smoking, but Santo Domingo urges an encounter with the aroma of the best cigars

Barbados wants to ban Smoking, but Santo Domingo urges an encounter with the aroma of the best cigars

Whether or not you are a cigar aficionado, if you will be visiting, don’t think twice and make the most of the opportunity to tour the Tabacalera de Garcia Cigar Factory.
Watch the hands that roll some of the best cigars in the world.
More than 300 different blends are made at the factory.

Guardian Holdings Limited (GHL) Trinidadian Shareholders Unanimously Approve US $75 Million Transaction

Guardian Holdings Limited (GHL) Trinidadian Shareholders Unanimously Approve US $75 Million Transaction

Trinidad & Tobago’s Guardian Holdings Limited (GHL) has securely closed the deal on the proposed US $75 million investment by the IFC into the equity of GHL by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), it was taken when the GHL Shareholders unanimously approved the transaction at an extra-ordinary meeting of its Shareholders conducted on September 1, [...]

The Official Guide is here for CaribbeanTales’ Market Development Programme…

The Official Guide is here for CaribbeanTales’ Market Development Programme…

View the lineup for CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution’s International launch, Market Incubator sessions, and Projects that our participants have in development.
Please download the official guide (pdf) to this landmark event, supporting Caribbean/Diaspora filmmakers, taking place this month in Toronto.

Central Bank Economist Kester Guy Returns from U.S. Embassy Sponsored International Visitor Leadership Programme

Central Bank Economist Kester Guy Returns from U.S. Embassy Sponsored International Visitor Leadership Programme

“Enriching and enlightening” was how Central Bank economist Kester Guy summed up his time in the United States recently for an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on the topic of U.S.- Caribbean Financial Systems and the Federal Banks.
Guy, along with three other finance officials from Trinidad, Jamaica and the Bahamas, participated in a specialized IVLP [...]

DIGICEL HITS 11 MILLION CUSTOMER MARK ACROSS ITS 32 MARKETS WORLDWIDE

DIGICEL HITS 11 MILLION CUSTOMER MARK ACROSS ITS 32 MARKETS WORLDWIDE

Mobile Service Digicel announced it’s hit the 11 million customer mark across its 32 markets worldwide.  Since launching in Jamaica nine and a half years ago, Digicel has grown rapidly and today offers its special brand of best value, best service and best network mobile communications across the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.
Digicel achieved [...]

Dr George Reid at Lunchtime Lecture at DLP Headquarters, George Street: 2010-09-03

Dr George Reid at Lunchtime Lecture at DLP Headquarters, George Street: 2010-09-03

The next lecture in the series will be delivered on Friday 2010-09-03 by Dr. George Reid at the “Errol Barrow Gallery“, DLP Headquarters, ‘Kennington‘, George Street, Belleville, St. Michael; his topic will be “Deconstructing The Barrovian S.E.T. Paradigm: How Does an Understanding of Barrow’s Philosophy Help us to Manage Our Current Problems?”
As usual lunch will [...]

DIGICEL HAITI FOUNDATION PARTNERS WITH U.S. GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE NEW SCHOOLS IN EARTHQUAKE-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES IN HAITI

DIGICEL HAITI FOUNDATION PARTNERS WITH U.S. GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE NEW SCHOOLS IN EARTHQUAKE-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES IN HAITI

The first school built under an innovative public-private partnership was opened yesterday by the Digicel Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). École Louis de Borno in Léogâne – the town located at the epicenter of the January 12th earthquake – will welcome 600 primary students when the new school year begins on [...]

Barbados’ National Initiative on Service Excellence (NISE) Unveils Barnyard Characters for its “Value Village” under auspices of Barbados Workers Union & Private Sector Agency

Barbados’ National Initiative on Service Excellence (NISE) Unveils Barnyard Characters for its “Value Village” under auspices of Barbados Workers Union & Private Sector Agency

“Use good ole Bajan values to tackle today’s challenges!” This is essentially the message that the National Initiative for Service Excellence (NISE) Inc. is sending across the nation as it enters a heightened phase of its “Live Excellence” campaign.
“Live Excellence”, which was first launched in 2008, promotes service excellence beyond the organization to the individual [...]

Governance of Barbados, Part 1: Consistency – Barbados’ Prime Minister (Ag) Freundel Stuart has it, or does he?

Governance of Barbados, Part 1: Consistency – Barbados’ Prime Minister (Ag) Freundel Stuart has it, or does he?

This is a brief examination of stewarding Barbados’ infrastructure – for me, there is a right way and wrong way… I shall do my best to let you decide for yourself based on examples put forward from a single 24-hour period.
Sunday morning found Freundel Stuart, the Acting Prime Minister of Barbados, emerging from his inactive [...]

Barbados to revise Oil Exploration in light of BP Gulf Spill: Energy Mister of Barbados visits Norway to discover clean extraction techniques

Barbados to revise Oil Exploration in light of BP Gulf Spill: Energy Mister of Barbados visits Norway to discover clean extraction techniques

Barbados has plans in tow for if or when effluent from the BP’s spill in the gulf should reach our shores. This pledge from Judy Thomas of the District Emergency Management formerly CERO: Central Emergency Relief Organisation. She emphasised the main thrust of the plan is being finalised by Barbados’ Environmental Protection Department (EPD) and [...]

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