NOTE: Hello There! It’s been a while since my last fuel price update (Aug 2022 to be exact). Since then, there have been several fuel prices changes in Barbados. So, I’ll be adding new fuel posts over the next few days to catch up! Consumers paid less for gasoline and more for diesel, effective midnight…
Read More Barbados Fuel Price Change for September 2022The last (and first time) I looked at the price for Chefette’s popular Wing Dings special, it was back in October 2022. Passing through El Chef this week, I noticed The Wings were back on the menu. So, now is as good a time as any to update my price data. Prices are VAT inclusive…
Read More Chefette Wing Dings Prices UPDATEDThere have been at least nineteen murders in Barbados for 2023. January to December 2022 data and analysis can be found here. My analysis is based on media reports only. The steps involved in the following analysis are similar to my 2020 analysis. Note to Table 1: Data was obtained from reports in the Media and keyed into…
Read More Barbados Murder Statistics January to December 2023One of the hot topics in Barbados, both in the press, online and offline, has to do with The Barbados Light & Power Company Limited. The BL&P Co. Ltd. is the sole provider of electricity in Barbados and a subsidiary of Emera, a Canadian electrical utility company. Emera also has interests in St. Lucia (LUCELEC)…
Read More Electricity Outages in Barbados January 1 to September 22 2023Two pieces of news caught my eye recently. The first was Cable & Wireless Communications (trading as Flow in Barbados) partnering with the Government of Barbados to provide 1,000 low-income families with access to high speed Internet. The second was the release of the Broadband Affordability Index by Broadband Genie (a UK entity). The latter…
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