Caricom Business
CARICOM SECRETARIAT, Georgetown, Guyana, October 1, 2021 - The following is a Weekly Business News Aggregation Service which has been put together as a newsletter by the CARICOM Secretariat’s Directorate of Trade & Economic Integration, under the direction of Assistant Secretary General Joseph Cox.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 21, 2021 - As the Regional carrier, Caribbean Airlines continues to claw its way out of its financial quagmire occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline has announced a strategic restructure which is expected to affect 25% of its workforce as well as a decrease in the size of its fleet.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, Ju8ne 15, 2021 - Finance Minister Colm Imbert is concerned that at the present rate the country’s National Insurance Fund could be depleted within the next twenty five years.
Georgetown, Guyana, October 5, 2021 - Several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states on Monday signed a declaration to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, as the region prepares to tap into assistance from Norway to tackle the scourge that experts say is linked to a range of other transnational crimes.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has warned the nation that if the current COVID-19 infection rate continues, the parallel health system would be overwhelmed within days.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, October 26, 2021 - Principal Medical Officer of Health Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards says due to a spike in COVID-19 patients, the country basically has no more beds for any new patients in its intensive care units (ICUs).
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, October 16, 2021 - As of the first of November, bars, restaurants, casinos and cinemas in Trinidad and Tobago will be allowed to operate at full capacity and offer full service to vaccinated persons ONLY.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 13, 2021 - Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has unreservedly apologised to the thousands of persons, particularly senior citizens, for the problems they encountered attempting to receive COVID-19 vaccines at several Health Centres this week, in response to a call from the government to come out and get vaccinated.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, October 21, 2021 - A motion filed by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar for the appointment of a tribunal to investigate the removal of President Paula-Mae Weekes from office, failed in the T&T Electoral College today, by a vote of 47 to 24.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, October 20, 2021 - Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is hell bent on move on with its impeachment motion in Parliament against President Paula-Mae Weekes on Thursday, forcing her to demit office due what is said to be her disrespect of the Constitution in the selection of a new Police Service Commission (PSC) and the process of selecting a Commissioner of Police (CoP).
