NEW YORK, New York – Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis has told a business and investment forum in New York City that his country has distinctive value proposition as a jurisdiction combining fiscal discipline, transparency, and strategic opportunity for international investors.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados government has announced plans for raising BDS$300 million on the local market that will be used to finance its operations and manage debt more affordably.

SANTIAGO, Chile – Delegates attending the 37th Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, have called for the mobilization of financing in order to expand fiscal space in regional countries.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamas government Wednesday warned that the implementation of a 10 percent tariff by the United States on goods and services exported from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country “could potentially influence both trade flows and visitor arrivals.”

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA) says it intends to plant millions of coffee and cocoa plants to provide consistent supplies for the sector decades after the last significant planting for the commodities had been undertaken in the 1960s and the 1980s.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has joined TBR Lab in launching Carbon Shift, the Caribbean’s first comprehensive climate tech acceleration program.

SANTIAGO, Chile – Tax revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) decreased as a share of  gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023 amid a slowdown in economic activity in the region and a decline in global commodity prices, according to a new report released here.

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands - The government of the British Virgin Islands is scheduled to begin construction on a long-awaited food processing complex later this year.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), in its 2023 Prevalence of Poverty data, says the country recorded its lowest poverty rate ever in 2023. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) projects that the initial impact of rising US tariffs on prices in Jamaica will be minimal.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government says the contract to provide Trinidad and Tobago with both high-sulphur and very-low-sulphur fuel oil is strengthening the state-owned Petrojam’s energy trade position in the region.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) will host its two-day Afreximbank Guyana Roadshow 2025 from Wednesday marking the latest in a series of initiatives undertaken here since the bank partnered with Guyana in 2022.