WASHINGTON, DC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says while most Caribbean businesses are either innovative or potentially innovative, they still face challenges.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The government is working to improve the payment period for local contractors in the oil and gas sector.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The economic outlook in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is expected to strengthen, supported by more robust household spending and easing monetary policies.
NASSAU, Bahamas – The original developer of the Baha Mar hotel project, Sarkis Izmirlian, Tuesday sought to give the assurance to hundreds of Bahamians that he would seek to safe guard their jobs as the efforts continue to wind-up a company that owns two hotels here.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana recorded a substantial increase in crude oil lifts last year from the Stabroek Block, Natural Resources Minister, Vickram Bharrat has said.
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.
