May 17, 2022 Kareem Guiste, Head of the Competitiveness Business Unit at the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) says Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) should create demand for their goods…
Category: INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
CARICOM Secretariat Develops Online Platform for Sustainable Statistical Capacity-Building
May 13, 2022 The Regional Statistics Programme of the CARICOM Secretariat has established an electronic platform for training, research and knowledge acquisition that is aimed at improving statistical capacity in…
IDB Study Shows Path to Digitally Transforming Transportation in LAC
May 10, 2022 The report is based on data from an unpublished survey of 223 transportation companies and 96 industry leaders from around the globe. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) lags…
TCI Premier Welcomes CDB & Development Partners to Major Upcoming Regional Meeting
May 10, 2022 The region’s advancement will take centre stage in Turks and Caicos on June 13 – 16, 2022 when the development community will gather in Providenciales, Turks and…
OAS General Secretariat Expresses Concern over Health of Political Prisoners in Cuba
May 3, 2022 The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) expresses its serious concern about the condition of underage political prisoners of the Cuban regime. The OAS…
US/CARICOM meeting needed says top diplomat!
April 29, 2022 Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States, Sir Ronald Sanders, has called for an early meeting between US President, Joe Biden and leaders of Caribbean Community…
Latin America Faces Unusually High Risks
By Santiago Acosta-Ormaechea, Ilan Goldfajn and Jorge Roldos April 29, 2022 The war in Ukraine is shaking the global economy and raising uncertainty about the outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean. The impact is being…
Economic Slowdown Deepens in Latin America and the Caribbean: Average Regional Growth of 1.8% Expected in 2022
April 29, 2022 Today ECLAC released new economic projections for the countries of the region. Lower expected growth will be accompanied by higher inflation and slow employment recovery. The economies…
CDB urges bold and urgent actions to transform the Region’s energy landscape
April 29, 2022 The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has made a clarion call to strategic partners to work together to execute bold and urgent actions to transform the Region’s energy…
CARICOM Secretariat holds live radio and online programme on Census
April 29, 2022 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat held a live radio and online discussion on Thursday, 28 April 2022, on the Population and Housing Census. Among the participants on the interactive…
Cultural, Creative Industries in position for significant development
April 26, 2022 The Region’s Cultural and Creative Industries are poised for significant development with the launch of the multi-million Organisation of African Caribbean Pacific States-European Union (OACP-EU) grant support…
New Ambassador of Honduras to the OAS Presents Credentials
April 26, 2022 The new Permanent Representative of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS), Carlos Quesada, presented his credentials today to the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis…