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.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – President Chandrikapersad “Chan” Santokhi has welcomed the outcome of a weekend workshop on the oil and gas sector in Suriname, saying it provided a useful insight that “we as a nation are on the way to a sustainable and prosperous future”.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial, and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) Friday expressed its disappointment after the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) offered a seven percent wage hike to its workers.