by | March 15, 2007 · 10:32 pm

Interview With Stephen Alleyne – CEO of the Barbados World Cup

Interview from the Financial Express, India:

“The World Cup will forever transform the image of Barbados…”

“An environmentally sound, green and clean Barbados…”

“Improve the quality of life for the ordinary Bajan…”

Read the interview here …

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8 responses to “Interview With Stephen Alleyne – CEO of the Barbados World Cup”

  1. reality check
    March 16, 2007 at 12:08 am

    An environmentally sound, green and clean Barbados?

    • Improve the quality of life for the ordinary Bajan?

    • Involve the youth in new wealth-related activities?

    • Convert Barbados from an export deficit to an export surplus economy ?

    • Improve tourism and make Barbados the choicest destination in the world ?

    this is either tongue and cheek or a severe delusionary situation. If its the latter, this man needs immediate and constant therapy

  2. creAtive
    March 16, 2007 at 12:16 am

    Yes,there will be sunshine and rainbows and lollipops for evryone!

  3. Economix
    March 16, 2007 at 12:19 am

    Trinidad Govt. drops 15% food tax –
    – but supermarkets still using old prices
    Roxanne Stapleton rstapleton@trinidadexpress.com

    Thursday, March 15th 2007

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    THE 15 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) has been removed from selected basic supermarket items, in Trinidad.

    However, while the removal became legal since January 31, suppliers, distributors, manufacturers and supermarkets said they were unaware of the move which was implemented by T&T Government,
    and the 15 per cent tax was still tacked on to the overall prices of the items.

    In newspaper ads yesterday, the Board of Inland Revenue, a Finance Ministry Department announced that VAT was removed from a range of goods.

    Items which have had the 15 per cent tax sliced from their overall prices include mineral and ordinary water, tomato ketchup, prepared mustard, aerated beverages, corn flakes, soya bean, corn and sesame oils, chicken sausages, canned salami sausages, unsweetened grapefruit juice for infant use and concentrated, orange drink, soy sauce, vinegar, dishwashing liquid and detergents, both liquid and solid forms, among others.

    Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Conrad Enill, told the Express yesterday that he realised stakeholders were unaware of the VAT removal, even though it was gazetted back in January, mentioned in the budget and announcements were made by Legal and Consumer Affairs Minister, Christine Kangaloo, and Trade and Industry Minister, Ken Valley.

    “I received a call from the Manufacturers Association on Tuesday March 13, 2007, saying they had found an order that Government had signed and that nobody knew about it. I am unable to determine why, on this occasion, people didn’t know,” Enill said.

    “The advertisement was printed today (yesterday) to clarify what was put into law in January. The Minister of Finance would have signed it on January 16, it was laid in the House of Representatives January 26 and laid in the Senate January 30, gazetted and then made law,” he added.

    But while Supermarkets Association president, Heeranand Maharaj, welcomed the move, stating that VAT removal on the items would benefit consumers, he said that the association was informed of this latest Government move via a supplier, who last Friday faxed a legal order it had received for removal of the tax.

    Maharaj said: “We didn’t get any correspondence on this and some suppliers and distributors still haven’t removed VAT. But with publication of this advertisement today (yesterday), it will clear up any instances of limited notification and supermarkets will then be able to take the VAT off.”

    The VAT removal is the latest installment of measures implemented by Government to drive the price of food and other essential items down, as it tries to combat the inflation rate which stood at 8.6 per cent in January.

    As of January 1, Government removed duties on all imported items which carried a Common External Tariff (CET) rate of zero to five per cent. That move affected more than 3,000 tariff lines.

  4. Pogo
    March 16, 2007 at 11:08 am

    Windies gotta be in finals something Bajans and the world will never forget.

  5. Patrick Porter
    March 16, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    I have one question to ask with regard to a statement “Quality of live for all Barbadians”
    I guess this means the IMF will control the island

  6. John
    March 16, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    …… and if we build all the houses the politicos speak of some will go without running water.

  7. SayWHAT?
    March 16, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    • Convert Barbados from an export deficit to an export surplus economy ?

    Not in my lifetime,
    not in my grandchildren’s lifetime.

  8. Anonymous X
    October 15, 2007 at 11:24 am

    Just heard that Stephen Alleyne died this morning at his home around 2.00a.m. My sympathy to his wife and family. May he rest in peace.