BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Daniel Best, says for the Caribbean region, climate finance isn’t just about development, it is existential.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has dismissed reports that Guyana is facing a foreign exchange crisis, saying that the recent increase in demand for United States dollars is largely linked to massive capital projects being executed in the oil-rich country.

ST.  JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has confirmed that the government has acquired a majority stake in Blue Ocean, the company involved in critical dredging projects at the Deep Water Harbour and Crabbes Harbour.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says no agreement has been signed with the US-based Curlew Midstream to build a storage facility here, nearly eight months after the Guyana government had announced plans for cheaper fuels by year end.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana's government says that it will be moving towards selling its own crude oil and that it would actively support the local private sector in building the technical and human resource capacity needed to effectively participate in that business.

BRASALIA – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has released a new initiative aimed at helping the countries develop a new approach to strengthening their technical, operational, political and prospective (TOPP) institutional capacities.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) says the trend of sluggish non-energy sector activity may have persisted during the second quarter of 2025.

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States has announced support for the Trinidad and Tobago government’s Dragon gas proposal with Venezuela saying it will take “steps to ensure it will not provide significant benefit to the Maduro regime”.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana has officially launched GuyExpo 2025 calling for large and small-scale businesses and entrepreneurs to take the opportunity to showcase their products to local and international customers.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government has described as a “very positive development”  for  the island, the latest ratings by the US-based Standard and Poor’s (S&P) that upgraded the country’s long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings from ‘BB-‘ to BB,’ while its outlook remains “positive”.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government said that it recognizes that the latest ratings by the United States-based Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is a confirmation of the country’s economic resilience and a call to action to address structural challenges, including stagnant gross domestic product (GDP) growth and the limited effectiveness of past policies to diversify the economy.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) says it has increased its efforts to drive the digital transformation of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), with at least 500 businesses set to digitize one internal process this year under the European Union (EU)-funded ‘Digital Jamaica’ Project.