Barbadians have been migrating to purchasing goods and services online. The Mottley government in an effort to bolter government tax revenues enacted legislation to collect VAT on online purchases. Just this week the largely popular Amazon communicated to shoppers that “effective March 1, 202, “Amazon World Service (AWS)” would begin to charge VAT at a rate of 17.5% to Barbadian
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Read about Barbadian Abbey Greene who followed her husband to Syria to join ISIS. Trini, Bajan woman on life with ISIS: We thought it was irie Newsday 2 Days Ago Aliya Abdul Haqq in Trinidad before leaving to join ISIS in Syria along with her brother. – SIMON COTTEE Aliya Abdul Haqq, one of the hundred or so TT citizens
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The following was posted to social media by Attorney at Law Douglas Trotman and tagged to Barbados Underground. David, Blogmaster It is with mixed feelings that I pen this missive… does relationship bias equate to corruption? Gollop, Stuart (former AG and PM), P. Cheltenham, and Worrell (judge) are indeed not in a partnership. They are directors of a company “Harford
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There has been a lot of chatter in the news lately about the large oil deposits found by Guyana. Barbadians and Caricom neighbours wish the South American republic well and must be concern about recent reports the deal with Exxon is a bad one. It is shocking that Exxon would seek such an exploitative deal in one of the Western
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Statement on the second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) 30 January 2020 Geneva, Switzerland The second meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in the People’s Republic of China, with exportations
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Governor Cleviston Haynes delivers the Central Bank of Barbados’ review of Barbados’ economic performance in 2019 and takes questions from the media and the live online audience. Central Bank of Barbados’ Review of the Barbados Economy in 2019.pdf (4.16 MB)
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The blogmaster thought long and hard about posting the following incident which occurred on the weekend at the Charles Rowe Bridge gas station in St. George. In a nutshell two youngsters got into an argument inside the gas station and the video captures the the decision to resolve. Again the shooting incidents in recent months by our young men expose
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