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For Neal & Massy, a painful exit from tourism

Patrick Hoyos Published February 6, 2012
Perhaps they will pass each other by at the revolving door of Caribbean Tourism Investment: Neal & Massy exiting from its BS&T-owned Almond Resorts holdings, and the NIS entering with its Fo...
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Walking on the edge

Patrick Hoyos Published January 22, 2012
The problem with treating your country as a “society” first and an “economy” second is that the latter usually comes back to bite you.   ...
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Audiogate just a blip on CBC radar

Patrick Hoyos Published January 15, 2012
I was glad to see the Broadcasting Authority calling for what will no doubt become a deep probe into CBC in an effort to get to the bottom of Audiogate. For while it may expose the corporate body&r...
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From the Globe to Limegrove: “Upsizing” the cinema experience

Patrick Hoyos Published January 9, 2012
There seems to have been a reason why Barbados’ first cinemas - Plaza, Empire, Olympic, Roxy, Globe - were all located in “town.” Cars were scarce and so most people went to see a ...
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OMG, LIME, stop texting me

Patrick Hoyos Published January 2, 2012
  Speaking as a consumer, I would like to share with you my view that perhaps the most annoying thing about LIME is its telemarketing research department (I have made up the name of the depar...
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Foreseeing the future

Patrick Hoyos Published December 25, 2011
  In his Sunday Sun interview with Editor-in-Chef Kaymar Jordan last week, Finance Minister Christopher Sinckler reminded me of Julius Caesar in his announcement that, were he to be offered t...
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Abolish this hated and unfair tax

Patrick Hoyos Published December 18, 2011
The great duty free shopping spree has come and gone, and the beleaguered, impoverished and bewildered Barbadian shopper is back where she started.   ...
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Walking the political Green Mile

Patrick Hoyos Published December 12, 2011
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Desperate Times on Broad Street

Patrick Hoyos Published December 12, 2011
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The day after Independence Day

Patrick Hoyos Published December 2, 2011
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