Anyone remember BCCI? (Bank of Credit and Commerce International). According to Wikipedia, the bank became the focus (in 1991) of the world’s worst financial scandal. It was discovered that the bank was involved in (among other things) money laundering, bribery, support of terrorism, arms trafficking and the sale of nuclear technologies.
So why bother digging up old news? [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Business’
August 8, 2007
Blast from the past: BCCI and Barbados
July 10, 2007
Chefette at the GAIA
For the folks out there who weren’t aware, Chefette is our version of McDonald’s. That said, Chefette recently announced the opening of its 14th location, situated at the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA).
I’m interested in two things: First, the breakfast menu. I know it’s an airport and I realize that flights are coming and going [...]
June 16, 2007
ABC + 123 = 0
UPDATED: Okay, I finished the post. Better late than never
I’ve heard it myself over the years and I’ve also repeated it to visitors: Barbados boasts one of the highest rates of literacy (or should that read one of the highest literacy rates?) in the world. Is this still the case, can our island still afford [...]
May 15, 2007
TAKEOVER of Barbados Shipping & Trading by Trinidad giant, Neal & Massy
UPDATED: Replaced the words SOLD OUT with TAKEOVER
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m just imagining things or just crying wolf, but I think The Nation newspaper got it wrong when they printed “BS&T Mega Deal” across their front page today.
“Barbados Shipping & Trading (BS&T), the country’s biggest conglomerate, is planning to merge with energy and industrial giant Neal & [...]
April 18, 2007
Why ‘green,’ not black, white nor polka-dot-pink, should matter when serving customers
Originally found via this BFP post. It seems that the folks over at the Living in Barbados blog are wondering why it is that in some establishments in Barbados, white customers receive far better treatment than their fellow black customers.
Many of the BFP readers (I really like those BFP readers) offered up several reasons, and also mentioned by name, several Barbadian companies where [...]
