BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, October 7, 2022 - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has again held discussions with officials from the World Bank, to arrive at a solution to the Bank’s policy that excludes middle income countries from development financing.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Sep 26 - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Carla Barnett on Monday launched the Secretariat's major online regional platform to facilitate intra-regional trade in goods and agricultural product.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 1, 2022 - AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2022 hosted by the Government of Barbados and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) opened today at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Barbados with a large contingent of African and Caribbean business persons in attendance.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago August 30, 2022 - Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a trade complaints mechanism between T&T and Jamaica in an effort to foster better relations.
WASHINGTON DC, June 4, 2022 - The International Monetary Fund says with increasing oil production having the potential to transform Guyana’s economy, Guyana’s medium-term prospects are more favorable than ever before.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, It is estimated that the debt to GDP ratio of St. Vincent and the Grenadines may decrease to as low as 88%, now that all that CARICOM country’s remaining debt to PetroCaribe has been forgiven.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, April 26, 2022 ( source: Searchlight) - Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has announced that the Venezuelan Government has “written off” all of his country’s remaining PetroCaribe debt, amounting to some EC$189 million dollars.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 20, 2022 - Prime Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d), Mark Phillips says the loss of correspondent banking; an increase of the unbanked and a disruption in the flow of remittance will pose serious threats to the economic and social stability of the Caribbean.
BELMOPAN, Belize, March 1, 2022 - Outgoing Chair of CARICOM, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne, has called for a shifting of gears to close implementation gaps associated with the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
HAMILTON, Bermuda- February 28, 2022 -BUSINESS WIRE - The Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA) and its partners say that Bermuda is committed to cooperation and compliance in relation to global tax standards. This follows the European Union’s (EU) Code of Conduct Group, inclusion of Bermuda, on the state of play document (Annex II).
