PBS Barbados is Founded at a Time of Swift Economic Growth in the Caribbean

Dutch citizenship is held by the residents of Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten, islands in the Eastern Caribbean of the Western Hemisphere. Several Caribbean islands continue to be tied to European countries or to the United States. The United States has a strong concern for the Caribbean as an important geopolitical region, through trade ties and the perceived threat of communist infiltration in the 20th century. PBS Barbados values support for island economic development by its large neighbor to the north.

As sugar production declined due to more favorable economic conditions for sugar in other parts of the world, the islands have sought other areas for economic development, and found an important one in tourism. Jamaica and the Bahamas dominated the tourism industry in the Caribbean early on, and continue to be the most popular tourist destination in the Caribbean, where tourist-based business concerns utilize the services of PBS Barbados to continually upgrade technological efficiencies for their clients.

Foreign investors in the Caribbean islands have led to the construction of hotels and resorts. The financial service industry has grown in the Caribbean islands due to the attraction to clients in the United States seeking to avoid U.S. taxation. The Caymans, the British Virgin Islands and the Antilles of the Netherlands have large and competitive financial service industries and these, along with a thriving shipping industry, utilize the business services of PBS Barbados. Deep water ports have been constructed in the latter half of the 20th century in the Barbados and the Bahamas, allowing the Caribbean to become competitive in the large-scale shipping industry.

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DNA Background of PBS Barbados Clients Likely Still Indigenous

After 250AD, Barrancoid humans resettled Trinidad and Tobago of the Eastern Caribbean, and were joined by the Arauquinoid, or Arawaks from the Orinoco river basin of Venezuela in South America. Finally, the Mayoid or Caribs arrived in Trinidad around 1300AD. At the time of Columbus’ explorations in the Caribbean of 1492AD and after, three central indigenous tribes lived in the Caribbean: the Taino of the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica and the Leeward Islands, the Caribs and Galibi of the Windward Islands, and the Ciboney of Cuba. Scientific DNA studies conducted in Puerto Rico in the early 2000’s indicate that 61 percent of Puerto Ricans today have Amerindian mitochondrial DNA, retaining strong ethnic connections to indigenous inhabitants, a source of pride for today’s PBS Barbados.

After the voyages of Columbus, Portuguese and Spanish explorers claimed territories in Central America and began their shipments of gold from these regions, prompting England, Dutch and French powers to establish territorial right so their own in the Caribbean. Thus were rivalries formed and contests initiated throughout the Caribbean for dominance, and the inheritance of those colonial days continues to drive the Eastern Caribbean clientele of PBS Barbados.

The Spanish came to the region seeking wealth, and promptly enslaved the native populations, driving them to extinction through conquest, disease and war. The Spanish imported African slaves when indigenous peoples died out or escaped. Spain attempted to lay claim to the entire Caribbean, but formed a stable presence only in Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba and Trinidad, and were a presence in Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuela coast between 1500 and 1550 as they plundered the pearl beds of these islands. The inheritance of Spain’s exploitation continues to reverberate today for the clientele of PBS Barbados.

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PBS Barbados - Three Tips for Developing Strong Business Relationships

PBS Barbados is a business solutions and integration firm. They provide products and services to companies in the Caribbean via the representation partnerships they have with global brands such as Xerox, Cisco, Oracle, Entrust Datacard, and more. The products and services they provide are essential to their clients’ ability to run their day-to-day operations. It is important that they maintain a strong relationship with both their clients and the global brands that they represent. Here are three tips for developing strong business relationships.

First and foremost, companies who are helpful to their business partners are valuable to their partners, thus strengthening their relationship. It is important to available and of service to all clients and business that a company shares a relationship with. The more helpful a company is, the more likely their clients and business partners are to return the favor.

Companies should keep their clients informed about what is happening at the company. They should do the same with business partners as well. This strengthens a relationship because it shows that the relationship is important and it provides an opportunity to receive and give feedback.

Companies should stay in contact with business partners and clients. Speak to them on the phone regularly, or join them for coffee. This adds a personal touch to the relationship and ensures that the partnership is not easily forgotten or overlooked.

PBS Barbados has been serving companies in the Caribbean for over 40 years. They were rebranded in 2006 after the Facey Group acquired them. They were previously known as Barbados Business Machines Limited (BBM).
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PBS Barbados Values Business Partnerships Which Give Clients the Best

Small business, schools, multinational corporations and healthcare providers all have varying demands in the types of copying and document creation needs in their organizations.  Xerox Alliance is partnered with PBS Barbados to provide the latest in document creation, copying, storage and retrieval services.  Xerox Alliance allows PBS Barbados to offer the possibilities of increased sales for its clients, as different revenue streams are opened with the introduction of new technologies.  Through Xerox Alliance, PBS Barbados offers the possibility for applications which are configured to the user’s server technologies, allowing for Xerox multifunction capabilities.

PBS Barbados has also partnered with Cisco Systems for over 25 years. A multinational company, Cisco Systems out of San Jose, California is a leading designer and manufacturer of networking equipment.  Cisco was founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and his wife, Sandy Lemer.  The name Cisco was truncated from the city name San Francisco, with the logo of the company intended to reflect the towers of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. Cisco was one of the first companies to sell successful routers for multiple networks, and continues to provide evolving technology which keeps up with changing software needs.  Cisco has been and continues to be a reliable source of service provider technologies, and PBS Barbados is the source for this trusted name in routers and network equipment.

To provide ease of daily business administration, PBS Barbados partners with Oracle.  Oracle builds database development tools and provides systems for software ranging from resource planning, customer relationship management and supply chain applications.  Oracle software increases PBS Barbados’ ability to provide, exponentially, the latest in computer applications to its clientele.