NOTICE NO. 1
THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 308
Lanka Gobetween Group Ltd
(Company No. 25033)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LANKA
GOBETWEEN GROUP LTD has by Special Resolution, authorised and directed that the Company be liquidated and dissolved voluntarily, in accordance with the provisions of section 367 of the Companies Act, Cap. 308 of the Laws of Barbados.
Dated the 25th day of July 2025.
LANKA GOBETWEEN GROUP LTD EVELINY ARNAL- FORDE
Title: Director.
NOTICE NO. 2
THE INSURANCE ACT, CAP. 310
(Section 47)
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AMALGAMATION
BMO Life Assurance Company
In accordance with section 47(2) of the Insurance Act, Cap. 310, Notice is hereby given that BMO LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY intends to make an application to the Financial Services Commission for approval of amalgamation between BMO LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY and BMO LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY as one company under the name “BMO LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY”.
The intended date of the proposed amalgamation is the 1st day of November 2025.
Dated this 1st day of September 2025. CHANCERY CHAMBERS
Attorneys-at-Law for the Applicant.
Michael A Edghill, CPA, FCA, MBA
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
Independent Auditor’s Report on the Summary Financial Statements for Amphora Life Insurance Company Ltd.
To the Shareholders of Amphora Life Insurance Company Ltd.
My Opinion
In my opinion, the accompanying summary financial statements of Amphora Life Insurance Company Ltd. (the Company) are consistent, in all material respects, with the audited financial statements, on the basis described in note 1.
The summary financial statements
The Company’s summary financial statements derived from the audited financial statements for the year ended April 30, 2024 comprise:
- the summary statement of financial position as at April 30, 2024;
- the summary statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income for the year then ended;
- the summary statement of changes in equity for the year then ended;
- the summary statement of cash flows for the year then ended; and
- the related notes to the summary financial statements.
The summary financial statements do not contain all the disclosures required by International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs). Reading the summary financial statements and the auditor’s report thereon, therefore, is not a substitute for reading the audited financial statements and the auditor’s report thereon. The audited financial statements, and the summary financial statements, do not reflect the effects of events that occurred subsequent to the date of my report on the audited financial statements.
The audited financial statements and my report thereon
I expressed an unmodified audit opinion on the audited financial statements in my report dated July 11, 2025.
Management’s responsibility for the summary financial statements
Management is responsible for the preparation of the summary financial statements on the basis described in note 1.
Auditor’s responsibility
My responsibility is to express an opinion on whether the summary financial statements are consistent, in all material respects, with the audited financial statements based on my procedures, which were conducted in accordance with International Standard on Auditing 810 (Revised), ‘Engagements to Report on Summary Financial Statements’.
Other matter
My report, dated July 11, 2025 on the financial statements of Amphora Life Insurance Company Ltd. for the year ended April 30, 2024 was made solely to the Company’s shareholders, as a body, in accordance with Section 147 of the Companies Act of Barbados. That report stated that my audit work was undertaken so that I might state to the Company’s shareholders those matters I am required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to any enactment or rule of law to the contrary, I do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company’s shareholders as a body, for my audit work, for my report dated July 11, 2025, or for the opinion I have formed.
Bridgetown, Barbados July 11, 2025
34 Hillcrest Development, Gibbons Terrace, Gibbons, Christ Church. Tel (246) 418-0273, (246) 231-1111. Email: rosmike@hotmail.com
| Amphora Life Insurance Company Ltd. Summary Statement of Financial Position As at April 30, 2024 | |
| (Expressed in Canadian dollars) | |
| 2024 $ Assets | 2023 $ |
| Cash and cash equivalents 41,175,129 Financial instruments – Available-for-sale investments 11,318,172 | 37,826,164 14,113,732 |
| – Investments at fair value through profit or loss 175,966,934 | 169,561,996 |
| – Loans and receivables 49,410,483 | 51,450,219 |
| Investment property 40,729,331 | 29,724,508 |
| Property, plant and equipment 6,900 | 5,932 |
| (Expressed in Canadian dollars) | Other | |||
| Share capital | fair value reserve | Contributed surplus | Retained earnings | Total |
| $ | $ | $ | $ | |
| Balance at May 1, 2022 13,279,489 | 3,127,437 | 775,725 | 17,777,889 | 34,960,540 |
| Issuance of preferred shares 1,400,000 | – | – | – | 1,400,000 |
| Redemption of preferred shares (2,300,000) | – | – | – | (2,300,000) |
| Contributed surplus – | – | 134,884 | – | 134,884 |
| Dividends paid – | – | – | (137,054) | (137,054) |
| Profit for the year – Increase in unrealised gains on available-for-sale | – | – | 4,616,215 | 4,616,215 |
| Balance at May 1, 2023 | 12,379,489 | 3,594,613 | 910,609 | 22,257,050 | 39,141,761 |
| Redemption of preferred shares | (400,000) | – | – | – | (400,000) |
| Dividends paid | – | – | – | (141,394) | (141,394) |
| Profit for the year | – | – | – | 212,216 | 212,216 |
| Increase in unrealised gains | |||||
| on available-for-sale |
| (Expressed in Canadian dollars) | 2024 2023 |
| Premium Revenue | $ $ |
| Insurance premium revenue | 1,114,424 4,404,250 |
| Insurance premium ceded to reinsurer | (287,299) (265,697) |
| Net insurance premium revenue | 827,125 4,138,553 |
| Fee income | 1,014,349 848,783 |
| Investment income | 20,794,147 2,327,382 |
| Other operating income/(expense) | 2,458,570 10,699,705 |
| 25,094,191 18,014,423 | |
| Partial surrenders Insurance benefits and movement in insurance and investment contract liabilities | 10,371,632 5,815,552 11,838,230 5,331,653 |
| Insurance benefits recoverable from reinsurer | (445,707) (364,653) |
| Net insurance claims and benefits | 21,764,155 10,782,552 |
| Operating expenses | 2,958,206 2,456,419 |
| Profit before income tax | 371,830 4,775,452 |
| Income tax | 159,614 159,237 |
| Profit for the year | 212,216 4,616,215 |
| Other comprehensive income: Items that are or may be reclassified to profit or loss Unrealised fair value gains on available-for-sale investments | 117,117 467,176 |
| Total comprehensive income for the year | 329,333 5,083,391 |
| Amphora Life Insurance Company Ltd. Summary Statement of Cash Flows For the year ended April 30, 2024 (Expressed in Canadian dollars) 2024 $ 2023 $ Cash flows from operating activities Income before taxation 371,830 4,775,452 Adjustments for: Depreciation expense 4,247 3,907 Unrealised (gains) losses on investments (9,862,409) 2,288,986 Interest income (6,375,250) (4,514,741) |
| Dividend income Operating (loss) income before changes in | (1,745,653) (1,684,020) |
| operating assets and liabilities | (17,607,235) 869,584 |
| Change in available-for-sale investments | 2,912,678 (3,574,850) |
| Change in financial investments at FVTPL | 3,457,471 (1,931,202) |
| Change in investment property | (11,004,823) (3,204,016) |
| Change in loans and receivables | 2,039,735 (7,272,098) |
| Change in trade and other payables | 100,847 165,136 |
| Change in insurance contract liabilities | (632,014) (3,604,152) |
| Change in investment contract liabilities | 16,681,034 8,087,595 |
| Cash used in operating activities | (4,052,307) (10,464,003) |
| Interest received | 6,375,250 4,514,741 |
| Dividends received | 1,586,039 1,524,783 |
| Tax paid | (13,408) (16,564) |
| Net cash generated from (used in) operating activities | 3,895,574 (4,441,043) |
| Cash flows used in investing activities Additions to property, plant and equipment | (5,215) – |
| Net cash used in investing activities | (5,215) – |
| Cash flows from financing activities Dividend paid | (141,394) (137,054) |
| Contributed surplus Issuance of preferred shares Redemption of preferred shares | – 134,884 – 1,400,000 (400,000) (2,300,000) |
| Net cash used in financing activities | (541,394) (902,170) |
| Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | 3,348,965 (5,343,213) |
| Cash and cash equivalents – beginning of year | 37,826,164 43,169,377 |
| Cash and cash equivalents – end of year | 41,175,129 37,826,164 |
| Represented by: Cash balances | 33,247,871 31,036,395 |
| Short-term instruments | 7,927,258 6,789,769 |
| 41,175,129 37,826,164 |
NOTICE NO. 3 BARBADOS
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
High Court
In the Estate of
HENRY MICHAEL SKEETE
also known as HENRY SKEETE
Deceased
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that an application is being made for the following Grant of Probate namely:-
PROBATE of the Will dated the 28th day of October, 1977 of HENRY MICHAEL SKEETE also known as HENRY SKEETE deceased late of Mount Brevitor in the parish of Saint Peter in this Island who died in this Island on the 19th day of August, 2020 by ROGER MICHAEL SKEETE the surviving Executor and Trustee named in the Will of the said deceased.
An application shall be submitted to the Supreme Court fourteen (14) days from the date of Notice in the Official Gazette and from the date of the second Notice of advertisement.
Dated 1st day of September, 2025.
FITZWILLIAM STONE & ALCAZAR
Attorneys-at-Law.
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Appointment of Notaries Public……………………………………… 2
Grant of a Commission and Appointment to the Regular
Force in the Barbados Defence Force……………………………. 1
List of persons awarded Electrical Wiremen Licences……………… 2
NOTICE NO. 1
Grant of a Commission and Appointment to the Regular Force
His Excellency the President has approved the grant of a commission and appointment to the Regular Force of the following persons:
- Midshipman Prashan Simpson in the rank of Acting Sub-Lieutenant and appointed to the Regular Force of the Barbados Defence Force with effect from 30 April 2025 and antedate to 1 July 2022 for the purpose of seniority.
- Officer Cadet Brittany Branker-White in the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Barbados Defence Force with effect from 23 July 2024 and ante-dated to 1 February 2023 for the purpose of seniority.
- Ordinary Seaman Joniton Fowler in the rank of Acting Sub-Lieutenant with effect 22 May 2025 in the Barbados Defence Force and ante-dated to 28 February 2025 for the purpose of seniority.
(M.P. 10/1/2 Vol.V)
GOVERNMENT NOTICES
Appointment of Notaries Public
THE NOTARIES PUBLIC ACT, (2024 – 21)
In accordance with Section 6(3)(b) of the Notaries Public Act, 2024 – 21 Notice is hereby given that the following persons have been appointed as Notaries Public for the year 2025:
- Ms. Tammy Lavonne Bryan S.C.
- Ms. Heather Marina Tull
Dated the 26th day of August, 2025.
JOY-ANN CLARKE (Ms.)
Registrar of the Supreme Court.
Electrical Wiremen Licences
According to the Electrical Wiremen (Licensing) Act, Cap. 368A, Section 8 (1) and (2), listed below are the names of persons awarded Electrical Wiremen Licences by the Electrical Wiremen Board at its meetings held on:-
(a) 20th May 2025:
Mr. Rohan Omar Douglas
Mr. Christopher DaCosta Sealy
(b) 19th August 2025:
Mr. Kurt Delano Benjamin Mr. Abram Pedro Cyrus Mr. Amal Kimani Lashley
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