With the recently announced major changes taking place across the region, is it time for our banks to radically change the way they currently run their businesses? What prompted these thoughts was looking at new innovative players in the market, noticeably in the United Kingdom and particularly with Starling Bank. Absolutely no service fees, higher interest on deposits than we
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While the early indications are that our economy is showing some signs of recovery, I still believe our most potentially challenging obstacle remains the inability to effectively implement. In theory it may be great to have large boards considering all sorts of possible ways to improve how we do business in tourism or any other sector, however, unless these groups
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GOVERNMENT has finally provided chartered surveyor Afra Raymond with a copy of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sandals Resort which provides crucial information on the deal for construction of a 500-700-room hotel in Tobago. Senior Counsel Deborah Peake confirmed this to Justice Frank Seepersad this morning in the San Fernando High Court. In October, the judge ruled for Raymond
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We are just under a month away from welcoming what was once a single weekly Saturday service, to a non stop daily flight from Charlotte (North Carolina) to Barbados with American Airlines (AA). Initially the route will be operated every day until 2nd April 2019 and then again from 6th June until 9th August. In the system at the moment,
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Submitted by Jenna Heidstrom, Marketing Manager, golfscape.com Relevant Link: 20 World’s Best Golf Courses
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It seems almost incomprehensible that a simple impromptu idea fashioned just ten years ago, has grown into a company that is now estimated at being worth US$31 billion or a higher valuation than Expedia, Hilton or American Airlines. From the conception days of buying three air mattresses to place on the floor in a loft room to help offset their
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The larger overseas tourism investors appear to be relatively well taken care of through their own ability to negotiate concessions in various degrees, but I wonder if there is sufficient information available in a one-stop shop format that could tempt the potential smaller entities willing and able to take advantage of current development possibilities? From our experience thirty years ago
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