BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Prominent Barbadian economist,  Dr. DeLisle Worrell, says Caribbean people are in danger of losing faith in the regional integration movement, CARICOM “simply because we have set goals for the regional organization which can no longer be attained”.

WASHINGTON, DC - The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it welcomes the “strong recovery” in Belize following the COVID-19 pandemic and the improved social outcomes and financial stability.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Agriculture Minister , Zulfikar Mustapha, has agreed to meet with rice farmers and millers as harvesting of the second rice crop amid concerns from stakeholders regarding the price being offered by millers for each bag of paddy being sold to them.

WASHINGTON, DC – The World Bank Group Monday announced the appointment of Dr. Susana Cordeiro Guerra as Vice President for the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.

BOGOTA, Colombia – The third and final round of negotiations for an Advance Preferential Market Access agreement between Colombia and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is expected to take place later this year, with the objective of finalizing the expanded agreement by the end of 2025.

WASHINGTON, DC – Jamaica-based company, Pathogenix, is among five entrepreneurs from Latin America and the Caribbean, who will present their solutions at the GET Forum, the flagship event of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on December 2 this year.

ALGIERS, Algeria – The commercial and cultural attaché at the Barbados High Commission in Ghana,  C. Phil Phillips, says while Africa might seem far away from the Caribbean, it presents opportunities that are worth exploring.

ALGIERS, Algeria – The Bahamas Wednesday signed an agreement with the Egypt-based Africa Export Import Bank (Afreximbank)  for the establishment of an Afro-Caribbean Marketplace on Grand Bahama Island and a logistics centre that will be “the first of its kind”.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname - The Malaysia based Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) says it plans to drill four new oil wells in Suriname which are expected to lead to further production developments later this year, the state-owned Communications Service Suriname (CDS).

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons says her administration is focusing on increasing foreign exchange earnings from the gold sector and plans to hold discussions with stakeholders in the sector next week.

WASHINGTON, DC - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says reaping the post-pandemic tourism boom, Curaçao’s and Sint Maarten’s economies have been expanding strongly, driven by stayover tourists and construction activity.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The second wider Caribbean Regional Risk Conference began here on Wednesday with regional countries being told economic instability is a channel through which global risks are transmitted and amplified, deepening their roots and cascading across the region.