Today, December 21, 2022 shall be a VAT Holiday - a 17,5% per cent reduction of prices on VAT goods - as the government aims at providing ease for consumers who have faced 33 months of significant economic challenge

Two Caribbean lexicographers are compiling the region’s first general-purpose English dictionary to bridge linguistic gaps in education; the project is a landmark effort to validate Caribbean language and ensure school children are not disadvantaged

Barbados is poised to become home to the largest and most technologically advanced renewable energy power plant in the English-speaking Caribbean, with construction of a $350 million hybrid facility expected to begin by March next year

Barbados, with the Marine Institute of Ireland, is starting a mapping of its seafloor few small islands have attempted on such a large-scale: it will include part of its EEZ, 432 times larger than its land area; work to cover fully will take years

A major agreement to build a coconut processing plant was signed with India, part of Barbados' plan to industrialize and expand its agro-processing sector; Export Barbados said it will create full value chains for coconut products with Indian technology