KINGSTON, Jamaica – Six more unions representing public sector workers have accepted Government’s four per cent wage increase offer for April 2021 to March 2022, bringing the total so far to 31.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The government of Guyana announced on Tuesday a two week tax-free bonus for all health care workers as it praised them for their service to the country during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Entertainment Minister Olivia Grange has announced a J$90-million (One Jamaica dollar =US$0.008 cents) special support package for members of the entertainment, culture and creative industries.  

GEORGETOWN, Guyana– Guyana says it new found status as an oil producing country does not preclude it from receiving concessional financing or support from international development partners.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, says despite being delayed by the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the pension scheme for tourism workers across the island will be introduced on January 1, 2022.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alastair Routledge has announced that the US based company has now moved all its supply chain services from neighboring Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana.

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Transport Minister Lawrence Scott announced Wednesday that the island’s first electric buses from China are expected to be on the roads by next spring.

SANTIAGO, Chile – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says the region’s international trade will experience a significant rebound in 2021 after the sharp drop recorded last year.

DALLAS, Texas /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Chuck E. Cheese, the global family entertainment brand, continues to drive international expansion and has successfully signed development agreements in three new countries across South America and in the Middle East. This adds to the rapid ongoing international expansion of the brand already announced in new regions like Egypt, Morocco, Romania and Kuwait, and sets Chuck E. Cheese on track to have over 100 international locations by 2022.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Three Mexican investors have expressed an interest massive infrastructure projects in Guyana including building an oil refinery, a new terminal at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and potentially paving the Linden to Lethem Road.

ROSEAU, Dominica – The newly elected president of the Caribbean Manufacturer's Association (CMA), John Robin, says he plans to use his tenure to promote intra Caribbean trade as a means of significantly reducing the billions of dollars spent on importing manufactured products into the region.

SANTIAGO, Chile – Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) face the challenge of supporting the income and labor reintegration of the most vulnerable segments of society, especially women and young people, according to a new report released here on Tuesday.