Thompson: Small businesses need strategy, not just survival
<a href="https://barbadostoday.bb/2026/09/10/thompson-small-businesses-need-strategy-not-just-survival/" title="Thompson: Small businesses need strategy, not just survival" rel="nofollow"><img width="1024" height="576" src="https://barbadostoday.bb/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UWI-Pro-Vice-Chancellor-Professor-Canute-Thompson-1024x576.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://barbadostoday.bb/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UWI-Pro-Vice-Chancellor-Professor-Canute-Thompson-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://barbadostoday.bb/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UWI-Pro-Vice-Chancellor-Professor-Canute-Thompson-300x169.jpg 300w, https://barbadostoday.bb/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UWI-Pro-Vice-Chancellor-Professor-Canute-Thompson-768x432.jpg 768w, https://barbadostoday.bb/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UWI-Pro-Vice-Chancellor-Professor-Canute-Thompson-1170x658.jpg 1170w, https://barbadostoday.bb/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UWI-Pro-Vice-Chancellor-Professor-Canute-Thompson-585x329.jpg 585w, https://barbadostoday.bb/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UWI-Pro-Vice-Chancellor-Professor-Canute-Thompson-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://barbadostoday.bb/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UWI-Pro-Vice-Chancellor-Professor-Canute-Thompson.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><p>Too many small businesses in Barbados are being created out of necessity rather than strategy, University of the West Indies Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Canute Thompson has declared, as he called…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://barbadostoday.bb/2026/09/10/thompson-small-businesses-need-strategy-not-just-survival/">Thompson: Small businesses need strategy, not just survival</a> appeared first on <a href="https://barbadostoday.bb">Barbados Today</a>.</p>
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