Barbados’ tourism has been encouraging so far in 2015, with arrivals increasing by 14.5 percent to end -September. However, construction activity fell short of expectations, and the spillover effects to the retail and domestic services sectors were muted, resulting in growth of 0.3 percent […]for the year so far. Average unemployment over the first half of the year was 12 percent, and inflation, which is mainly imported, fell to 0.8 percent in the twelve months ending July…