ROSEAU, Dominica – Regional trade unions representing former employees of the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, say they have rejected the latest offer by Caribbean shareholder governments to meet their financial obligations to the laid off workers.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Veteran St. Lucian banker Carol Mangal has become the first female to lead the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) Bankers Association.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) had made a call for a better debt deal for developing countries.

MIAMI, FLORIDA – Despite daunting challenges presented over the past 18 months by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Caribbean tourism and hospitality industry recorded many significant successes, and data points to an encouraging outlook ahead.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Gaston Browne Monday said salaries and wages for public sector workers will be paid on time but ‘admitted that “it is becoming increasingly difficult’ as the country continues to feel the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Agriculture Minister Floyd Green says the external demand for Jamaican agricultural produce and value-added items continues to increase, despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched the series of publications aimed at accelerating the recovery of the tourism industry in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Friday ended a visit to the island, indicating that the Barbados economy “remains severely depressed” as a result of the ongoing global coronavirus (COVID019) pandemic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched an acceleration program for STEM startups led by women in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados recorded over 10,000 air passenger arrivals in July after months of being hard-hit by the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and for the first time since December last year, the local tourism industry is suggesting a positive turn out for the industry ahead of the 2021-22 winter season.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it has entered into an agreement with Netflix to promote skills-learning and growth of the entertainment Industry in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

GEORGETOWN, Guyana –Guyana is urging the private sector here as well as in Suriname to cooperate more saying that they should regard the two countries as a shared economic space.