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CIBC, JetBlue and MasterCard Launch New Business Card
Caymanian Times
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By Stuart Wilson CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank and JetBlue and MasterCard have teamed up to launch the JetBlue Business Card, which made its public debut on Thursday, 19th June at the Kimpton Seafire Resort in Grand Cayman. Director of...
CAF consolidates support for Bahamas, Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua
St. Vincent Times
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June 30, 2025
The Caribbean region featured prominently during the Board of Directors meeting of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Seville, Spain, with several landmark developments in its deepening partnership with the region....
Money in a Flash: New Rules Push Barbados into Real-Time Payment Era.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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June 30, 2025
- Advertisement - Starting March 31, 2026, all commercial banks in Barbados must use the new Instant Payments System (IPS). The country’s three biggest credit unions, the Barbados Stock Exchange, and the Accountant General’s Office must also join....
Barbados approved for CAF Series A
The Nation Barbados
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June 30, 2025
The Board of Director of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean has approved a request by the Government of Barbados to be elevated to Series “A” shareholder status, CAF’s highest level of membership. The approval initiates the...
Remarks by Commissioner Hoekstra at the high-level side event on “Coalition for Solidarity Levies” on the margins of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development
European Commission
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June 30, 2025
European Commission Speech Seville, 30 Jun 2025 Good afternoon everybody. It is a pleasure to be in beautiful Sevilla with all of you. A very hot June day. I would like to start by thanking Barbados, Kenya, a...
Nigeria’s multilateral economic human capital: What next?
The Cable
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June 30, 2025
At the recently concluded Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) of May 5-8, 2025, in Texas, USA, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), confirmed that the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank), led...
Parts of England will be hotter than Barbados, Jamaica, and Mexico... and it's going to be 35C tomorrow
Radio X
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30 June 2025, 10:13 | Updated: 30 June 2025, 12:07 The temperature will reach highs of 34C in parts of England, making it hotter than Barbados and Jamaica. Picture: Getty Parts of England will experience temperatures hotter than holiday spots in...
Barbados condemns fake US travel advisory
Loop News
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Barbados authorities have described as yet another “fake report” aimed at deliberately attempting to tarnish the country’s image, a false claim that the United States had issued its highest travel advisory warning Americans not to visit the...
Belizean Artisans Called on to Join CARIFESTA 2025 in Barbados
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 29, 2025
Junior Youth Artist Ambassador Musa Shaeed is calling on Belizean artisans to represent the country at CARIFESTA XV in Barbados this August. The Caribbean Festival of Arts, CARIFESTA, is the region’s largest celebration of culture and arts,...
CAF Consolidates its support for the Caribbean with Major Approvals for The Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua.News
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June 29, 2025
(Seville, Spain. June 29, 2025) – The Caribbean region featured prominently during the Board of Directors meeting of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Seville, Spain, with several landmark developments in its...
BTFL head urges action to boost overseas sales for local businesses
Barbados Today
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June 29, 2025
104 Barbadian entrepreneurs continue to face significant challenges when trying to sell their products to international customers, with cross-border transactions remaining a major obstacle to business growth. That concern has been raised by...
Weather map: Temperatures could soar to 35C as Britons swelter in heatwave
The Independent
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June 29, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
CARPHA Concludes Milestone Week of Public Health Activities in Barbados
HTS St Lucia
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From May 5th to 9th, 2025, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) led a landmark week of back-to-back public health engagements in Barbados, culminating in the celebratory Award Ceremony at its 69th annual CARPHA Health Research Conference...
BIDC signs MoU with Global OTEC to advance ocean renewable energy in Barbados
St. Vincent Times
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June 28, 2025
The UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) held this month in Nice, France, was the stage for an important advancement for marine renewable energy in Barbados. In the margins of the event, the Barbados Investment & Development Corporation (BIDC), through its...
Barbados Unveils Visionary Plans for CARIFESTA XV
Discover Montserrat
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June 27, 2025
With just two months until the Caribbean’s most anticipated cultural showcase, the 15th edition of CARIFESTA was officially launched on Thursday in a spirited ceremony at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. Hosted by the Government of Barbados and...
Trump slams Fed Chair Powell in handwritten note
Daily Mail
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June 30, 2025
President Donald Trump is finding novel ways to try to pressure Fed chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates – this time releasing an angry hand-written note online that casts the US central bank as behind the curve. Trump posted a chart of...
Barbados Bets on Youth, Luxury, and Local Spend.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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June 27, 2025
- Advertisement - Barbados has brought back its top business-to-business (B2B) tourism event, Connect Barbados, after five years. The event, held under the theme “From Street to Chic,” includes over 500 B2B meetings. It runs from June 23 to June...
‘Every Bottle Back’ to have positive impact on the environment
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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June 30, 2025
An initiative was launched this morning that could have a major positive impact on the environment while allowing enterprising Barbadians to make money. It’s called the Every Bottle Back Initiative, a joint effort involving the Barbados Bottling...
Rich flyers may foot climate bill under new tax push by 80-nation group
The News International
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Several countries, including France, Kenya, Barbados, and Spain, came together on Monday to form a coalition aimed at taxing wealthy air travellers. The idea is to generate funds to help poorer countries deal with the impact of climate change,...
Tributes paid to Rawtenstall entrepreneur who ‘always had a smile on her face’
Lancs Live
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June 28, 2025
Tributes have been paid to an entrepreneur who was ‘always happy and had a smile on her face’. Maria Stannard passed away from frailty peacefully at Hill View Care Home, Rawtenstall on Wednesday, June 18, aged 89. She ran several businesses...