David Thompson News

There's a lot ofA action taking place in Barbados - all with the goals of boosting economic development and reducing business failures.

By Cathy Lashley BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Barbados government will be introducing a new cultural industries policy next year.

Bridgetown, Dec 5 Barbados will receive 400 million dollars to support projects in coastal regions and water works as well as to boost education and energy.

By Cathy Lashley BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Prime Minister David Thompson has warned that "without careful planning and development, Barbados could unwittingly contribute to its own demise". Prime Minister David Thompson, and Minister of Tourism, Richard Sealy, are pictured tee-ing off following the official opening of Apes Hill Club and Golf Course.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Four priority areas will receive funding totalling some $400 million, in the Inter-American Development Bank's Country Strategy with Barbados for 2009-2013. Prime Minister David Thompson briefing the media at hte recent press conference.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Barbados government is pleased with the country's progress in becoming compliant with the CARICOM Single Market regulations, and is readying its economy and legislative and regulatory structures to be Single Economy compliant.

Renewed calls for a consolidation and deepening of the integration movement particularly within the contexts of the development of a rules-based Community and the prevailing economic climate were the common themes at the opening ceremony of a high level law symposium in Trinidad and Tobago.

Barbados' Prime Minister David Thompson will launch a new Barbados Entrepreneurs' Venture Capital Fund on the island this Friday, November 13, 2009.

The prime minister of Barbados told Monday night's opening of a three-day symposium examining developments in Caribbean law that such a forum was necessary to explore the strength and durability of the pillars on which the regional integration movement rests.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDIGETOWN, Barbados -- China and Brazil are likely to be major economic and political powers in the future, and the Barbados government has been "tardy" in establishing the kind of diplomatic relations that it should have with them.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Caribbean nations want Barbados to explain to them how "this small country, with limited resources, facing a crisis of the magnitude that it has, was able to achieve [sustainability] without having major social unrest, or political upheaval". Prime Minister David Thompson and Central Bank Governor, ...

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Caribbean electoral officers will spend two days in Barbados discussing electoral matters affecting the region, at the fourth General Meeting of the Association of Caribbean Electoral Organisations .

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The need for an immigration policy that meets Barbados' national goals was stressed by Prime Minister David Thompson last Tuesday, as he delivered a Ministerial Statement in the House of Assembly.

By Cathy Lashley BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Barbados Government is moving assiduously to tackle the economic problems with which this country is faced.

JUST five Caribbean Community Heads of Government had confirmed, by yesterday, their participation in the two-day forum on the Caricom Single Market and Economy that gets under way today in Barbados.

By Gillian Applewhaite BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- CARICOM Heads of Government, heads of regional institutions, and representatives of non-governmental organisations and the public and private sectors, are expected in Barbados next week for a two-day Convocation on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy .

The Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, MP, is to make a special visit to Reading tomorrow to launch of the Barbados Family and Friends Club Prime minister of Barbados launches Family and Friends Club September 30, 2009 The Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, MP, is to make a special visit to Reading tomorrow to meet with fellow ...

IN Jamaica, former long-term Prime Minister and leader of the now parliamentary opposition People's National Party Percival Patterson has sounded the political warning: "I shall return." In Barbados, former long-term prime minister and leader of the parliamentary opposition Barbados Labour Party Owen Arthur has equally, boldly announced to his ...

Home porting has climbed to the top of Barbados' cruise tourism agenda and very soon the island will be engaging one of the world's largest cruise operators to boost business to the island.