By: Staff Writer May 21, 2021 A Jamaican exporter sees double digit sales increase after Caribbean Export Development Agency’s (CEDA) Direct Assistance Grant Scheme (DAGS) inputs and is now earning…
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Women are being left out of grant opportunities through CEDA and other agencies- more support is needed, but “don’t give up.”
By: Staff Writer May 21, 2021 The head of the Jamaican Women in Coffee organisation says that women need more opportunities and support for grant funding in the agri-business landscape.…
COMMENTARY: Vaccine refusal is as dangerous a pandemic as COVID-19
By: Sir Ronald Sanders May 21, 2021 Vaccine refusal is fast becoming as dangerous to human health and to economies as the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, even before the novel…
COMENTARY: Gender-based violence: an overlooked risk in development projects
By: María Amelia Viteri May 21, 2021 With the urge that building gender equality may convey, the social safeguard policies of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) encompass concrete actions to…
Dukharan urges relaxing restrictions on pension funds for the Caymans
May 21, 2021 Noted Caribbean economist, Marla Dukharan, issued her Capital Markets report for the Cayman Island where she urges the relaxation of restrictions on pension funds in the Caymans…
Dukharan issues monthly Caribbean Economic Report- notes precipitous drop in stopover visitors region-wide
May 21, 2021 Noted Caribbean economist, Marla Dukharan, issues her monthly Caribbean Economic Report for May and notes the precipitous fall in stopover and cruise visitors region wide.
Baha Mar Leads The Future Of Travel And Welcomes New COVID-19 Vaccination Exemptions To The Bahamas
May 21, 2021 Baha Mar, the leading resort destination in The Bahamas, applauds the announcement by the Ministry of Tourism and Aviation that visitors traveling to The Bahamas who are…
CariCris: Victoria Mutual assigned ‘adequate’ ratings
May 21, 2021 The Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services (CariCris) issues “adequate” rating for Jamaican wealth management firm, Victoria Mutual Investments Limited.
Wendell Mottley, Former Trinidad & Tobago Minister of Finance, to Retire from Pan-American Life Insurance Group’s Board of Directors
May 21, 2021 Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG), a leading provider of life, accident and health insurance throughout the Americas, announced today that Wendell Mottley will retire as a member…
UWI Open Campus certify early childhood practitioners in e-learning pedagogy
May 21, 2021 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) now has a cohort of Early Childhood Educators with new skills to conduct online teaching of children between the ages of 3 to…
OAS and CAF Present the Publication “Sub-regional Diagnosis of Data from the Government Procurement and Contracting System”
May 21, 2021 The Organization of American States (OAS), in its role as technical secretariat of the Inter-American Government Procurement Network (RICG, for its acronym in Spanish), in alliance with…
REGIONAL STAKEHOLDERS TO DISCUSS SCALING UP AND SUSTAINING THE REGIONAL HIV RESPONSE DURING COVID-19
May 21, 2021 The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s response to the HIV epidemic, will convene…