Barbados' sizable food import bill can be significantly cut under the government’s flagship farm development programme, The Farmers Empowerment and Enfranchisement Drive (FEED).

Del’s Farm and Feed will close by this upcoming fall, when its owners — Tractor Supply Co. —open a new location in Kelso.

Australian operator BHP has made a sub-commercial discovery at the Wasabi-2 location in the US Gulf of Mexico, and attracted a major farm-in partner to an offshore exploration venture in Barbados ...