GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana recorded a substantial increase in crude oil lifts last year from the Stabroek Block, Natural Resources Minister, Vickram Bharrat has said.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), says it has entered into a joint initiative with the International Trade Centre (ITC) in launching a new partnership to strengthen access to the North American market for women entrepreneurs in the region.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – An agreement outlining the terms and conditions under which the United States Export-Import Bank will give Guyana a US$527 million loan to support its gas to energy project was signed on Friday during a visit by the bank’s President Reta Jo Lewis.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it is providing a grant of over US$300,000 for a two-year project to improve business activity in Haiti.
NASSAU, Bahamas - Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis has announced that the value-added tax rate on all food sold in food stores would be reduced from ten percent to five percent.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The government has forged a strategic partnership with G-Mining, Canadian gold company, to train thousands of Guyanese to work in one of the country’s largest gold mines in Region Seven.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Over 90 Jamaican farmworkers departed for Canada on Friday as part of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP), continuing a tradition that has lasted nearly 60 years.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana’s Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha says sugar production fell by approximately 21% in 2024,.
BASSETERRE, ST. Kitts – The St. Kitts-based Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), says it will push ahead in the new ear for the establishment of a regional regulator for Citizenship by Investment Programme (CBI) and is currently projecting growth in the sub region to be between four and five per cent.
BELMOPAN, Belize – Belize has shipped an estimated BDZ$45 million (One Belize dollar=US$0.49 cents) of raw sugar to the United Kingdom even as the country deals with a fungal disease was found to have infected up to 40,000 acres of sugar cane.
WASHINGTON, DC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) with Haiti which runs through December 19, 2025.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The economic partnership between Jamaica and India has strengthened over the last year.
GEORGETOWN , Guyana – United States Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere, Brian Nichols has confirmed that Guyana has received initial approval for a US$500M loan from the US Export-Import Bank for its Gas-to-Energy project.
