Straughn announces online platform to speed up concessions, improve transparency

The Ministry of Finance is preparing to move the management of concessions, stamp duty and other services to a new online platform to speed up processing and improve transparency, Finance Minister Ryan Straughn has told Barbados TODAY.

The government’s financial processes are set for a major overhaul, Straughn indicated, anchored in a modern technological framework his ministry will soon roll out.

He said: “It’s not just a website, but an online platform for managing concessions and a whole range of administrative things the Ministry of Finance does. A lot of issues relate to processing.