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Tag Archives: energy

  1. Price Increase with Kerosene, Diesel & Gas For April

    Barbadian consumers will be paying more for petroleum products, effective midnight, Sunday, April 4. The retail price of gasoline, diesel, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will increase, in keeping with prices for these products on the international market. Gasoline will be sold at $3.77 per litre, an increase of 20 cents; the price of […]

    April 5, 2021Breaking News, Business, FeaturedNo comments
  2. THE DEVIL HAS A NAME (2020) Edward James Olmos, Kate Bosworth & Haley Joel Osment – Drama

    A psychotic oil matriarch leaves the whole industry exposed when she attempts to outfight a bullish farmer whose water has been poisoned.

    March 9, 2021Cinema, Video GalleryNo comments
  3. EU disburses First Renewable Energy Tranche of EC $11.23 million to St Kitts and Nevis

    St Kitts and Nevis has received a boost from the European Union as the government forges ahead with its goal of advancing towards energy self-sufficiency from local renewable energy sources. The European Union has disbursed EC $11.23 million (EUR €3.444 M) to St. Kitts and Nevis. to promote the integration of renewable energy and energy […]

    January 13, 2021PoliticalNo comments
  4. SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2021 DATES ANNOUNCED

    The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has announced the planned dates for Sol Rally Barbados 2021 and its associated events, in the hope that the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic will have abated in time for the Club’s blue riband event to be run on its traditional date. Subject to final ratification by the Barbados […]

    December 18, 2020RallyNo comments
  5. CURACAO OIL REFINERY SCANDAL DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

    C A V E A T BajanReporter.com is using the submitted article as part of “efforts to advance understanding of issues related to Sint Eustatius’ electoral process” and this website believes it constitutes a “fair use” of the provided material, any offence taken or assumed is at remit of the original author and not the […]

    October 25, 2020Featured, Political1 comment
  6. New scholarship program campaign “Developing talent for a sustainable future”

    The Barbados National Oil Company Ltd, Scholarship will be awarded to students who meet the criteria set forth annually. Scholarships will be awarded based on the availability of funds. A total of (11) eleven scholarships shall be granted. This Scholarship shall be funded with a cash gift of $1,000BBD per selected student and shall be […]

    October 3, 2020Breaking News, Education, FeaturedNo comments
  7. President Ali committed to resolving Venezuela/Guyana border controversy case at ICJ

    Guyana’s new President Dr Irfaan Ali has committed to pursuing a resolution of the Guyana/Venezuela border controversy at the International Court of Justice. He reminded that it was the PPP/C Government in 2014 that put an end to the interminable ‘good offices’ dialogue with Venezuela, because “it had become, for them, a strategy of prolonging […]

    August 10, 2020PoliticalNo comments
  8. APNU+AFC so far accepting just over 75,000 of the 400,000 votes recounted

    Six hours after President David Granger again assured Guyanese that he would accept a declaration of the March 2, 2020 general and regional election results, the coalition he leads indicated that it was only prepared to accept results of 75,707 votes so far counted for itself and the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in all areas […]

    June 9, 2020Featured, PoliticalNo comments
  9. BARBADIANS MUST REVERT TO ANCIENT METHODS FOR COOLING AND AVOIDING WASTAGE

    In the drive to have modern homes, too many Barbadians have thrown out the bathwater, the baby and the tub to appear chic and hip when really and truly, old ways had their value in using the environment to do the work for you… Mr Hutchinson said too many Bajans like to just have the […]

    March 16, 2020Business, FeaturedNo comments
  10. Rally Club finalising plans for 2020 Championship

    As a new decade starts, the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Committee of Management has been working on plans for the 2020 season, with a number of changes in store for competitors in its Driver’s and Class Championships. The dates for the seven-round series are now confirmed, but details of a proposed new policy for servicing […]

    January 8, 2020RallyNo comments
  11. PANTON, SWANN WEIGH SOL RALLY BARBADOS OPTIONS

    Britain’s Rob Swann is in upbeat mood about Sol Rally Barbados 2020 after winning last Sunday’s (December 29) Mini Tempest Rushmoor Stages in the South of England on his second outing to assess a Ford Fiesta WRC. Runner-up in the Caribbean’s biggest motor sport International three times, he lost out in 2017 and ’18 to […]

    January 4, 2020RallyNo comments
  12. FINANCIAL SAVINGS OF $20 MILLION FROM INNOTECH DEAL

    The financial savings to the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) from the recent agreement made with Innotech Group of Companies will amount to a “conservative estimate” of BDS $20 million. Mr. Abrahams stated: “From this particular deal over the life of the BERT programme, we are going to save a minimum of 20 million dollars…and if […]

    December 20, 2019Breaking News, Business, FeaturedNo comments
  13. BARBADOS’ PRIVATE SECTOR APPROVES GOVERNMENT DRAFTED IMF RESTRUCTURING PLAN SO FAR, DIFFERENT GRADE FOR 2 DAY BLACKOUT

    The Private Sector Arm of the Monitoring Committee for BERT – The Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation programme – have given a thumb’s up so far, energy and water concerns are a different matter… This from Edward Clarke, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Barbados Operations of Sagicor General as the lead for the Monitoring […]

    November 26, 2019Business, FeaturedNo comments
  14. BNTCL COMMENCES PIPELINE MAINTENANCE PROJECT

    Monday 15th July marks the start of the Pipeline Maintenance Project being undertaken by the Barbados National Terminal Company Ltd (BNTCL). The project will commence in an area close to the Fairy Valley headquarters of the BNTCL and will not initially affect residents or commuters in the area, but on Thursday 25th July, the project […]

    July 14, 2019Featured, TechnologyNo comments
  15. INCREASE IN PETROLEUM PRICES EFFECTIVE MIDNIGHT JUNE 2

    Barbadians will be paying more for petroleum products effective midnight Sunday, June 2. The retail price of gasoline will increase from $3.88 per litre to $3.93 per litre, while diesel will rise from $3.08 per litre to $3.14 per litre. Kerosene will also increase from $1.41 per litre to $1.43 per litre. This represents increases […]

    June 3, 2019Breaking News, Business, FeaturedNo comments
  16. PANTON AND FENNELL’S 4TH FLOW KING OF THE HILL

    Jamaica’s Jeff Panton and Mike Fennell re-wrote the record books again yesterday (Sunday) with their fourth straight victory in Flow King of the Hill, the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) annual Sol Rally Barbados shakedown. Having trailed England’s Rob Swann for the first three runs, Panton made the final run count, to win by a margin […]

    May 28, 2019Breaking News, Featured, RallyNo comments
  17. NATIONAL TERMINAL COMPANY UNDERTAKES SURVEY

    Residents in the areas of Pegwell Boggs, Church Hill and Charnocks Christ Church will soon have a team in the area conducting a survey on behalf of the Barbados National Terminal Company Ltd (BNTCL). In a few weeks’ time, BNTCL will be embarking on a major pipeline maintenance programme for its Oistins to Terminal and […]

    April 22, 2019Business, FeaturedNo comments
  18. CIBC FIRSTCARIBBEAN HELPS A MICRO-BUSINESS

    In 2017, Aldrin Jordan was selling newspapers and LPG gas from a shed along Thorpe’s Main Road in St. James. Today, he is operating what he described as a community hardware from a building located over the other side of the road from his former station. The move to what now proudly wears the signage, […]

    March 25, 2019BusinessNo comments
  19. PANTON “GUTTED” FOR TIVOLI RALLY LOSER SWANN

    Jeffrey Panton and Michael Fennell Jnr in their Rubis Ford Focus maintained their 100 per cent win rate in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2018 Driver’s and Class Championships in the final round on Saturday (November 24). Even before celebrating victory in the Tivoli Winter Rally, however, the Jamaican was quick to commiserate with Britain’s […]

    November 26, 2018RallyNo comments
  20. Parkland Fuel Corporation to Acquire 75% of SOL, Largest Independent Fuel Marketer in C’bean

    Parkland Fuel Corporation – Canada’s largest and one of North America’s fastest growing independent marketers of fuel and petroleum products and a leading convenience store operator, and SOL Limited have entered into an agreement to complete a business combination between Parkland and SOL Investments Limited and its subsidiaries. The Transaction will result in Parkland acquiring […]

    October 10, 2018Breaking News, Business, FeaturedNo comments
  21. Get a chance to win $20,000 in travel credit and daily prizes in the Rubis Great Escape!

    Get a chance to win $20,000 in travel credit and daily prizes in the Rubis Great Escape!

    October 6, 2018Photo Gallery, Travel2 comments
  22. Vice (2018) | Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell & Christian Bale

    VICE explores how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today.

    October 6, 2018Political, Video GalleryNo comments
  23. WINNER OF SOL PETROLEUM’S ‘WIN 50K’ NEVER HAD A PRIZE BEFORE

    A lady who never won anything before now has fifty-thousand reasons to smile… Initially bursting into tears, she recovered quickly, and revealed she is a frequent customer at SOL Warrens where the grand reveal took place – she explained since the contest started in May she put in about 30 entries; – The windfall is […]

    July 13, 2018Breaking News, Business, FeaturedNo comments
  24. Guyana Poised to Become the ‘Dubai of the Caribbean’

    Guyana is poised to become the Dubai of the Caribbean if revenues to be derived from its newly discovered oil reserves are effectively managed and prudently invested and the potential for large scale agribusiness, tourism and infrastructure development is aggressively pursued. That was the message delivered by President of the Guyanese American Chamber of Commerce […]

    June 3, 2018Business1 comment
  25. ‘FLOW KING OF THE HILL’ TO PANTON AND FENNELL AGAIN

    With victory in Sunday’s Flow King of the Hill, Jamaica’s Jeff Panton has joined island legend Roger Skeete as a three-time winner of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) annual Sol Rally Barbados shakedown. Adding back-to-back KotH wins to last year’s Sol RB hat-trick, Panton and co-driver Mike Fennell (Rubis/Sandals Barbados/KIG Ford Focus WRC06) have re-written […]

    May 29, 2018Breaking News, Featured, RallyNo comments