BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Residents of the Caribbean will soon get the opportunity to weigh in on how they can benefit from the digitization of their country’s payment systems.

WASHINGTON, DC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday said overall economic growth is projected to be 57.8 percent this year for Guyana as the country continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic-induced recession in 2020, and protracted political transition, non-oil economic growth.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Grenada's government on Tuesday said it has held preliminary discussions with Venezuela regarding the repayment of more than EC$370 million (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) owed to the South American country.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – CARICOM on Monday launched a new regional platform to facilitate intra-regional trade in goods and agricultural products even as President Chandrikapersad Santokhi reminded that one of the key principles of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) “was and still is, to achieve regional integration, and economic growth, within our community”.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Ministry of Tourism and International Transport has embarked on a venture to expand the number of businesses that supply the cruise industry with goods and services.

NEW YORK, New York – Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Thursday urged world leaders to “use the power of the pen” and impose natural disaster and pandemic clauses in developing countries’ debt, as well as remove the current barriers to accessing financial assistance from multilateral development banks.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Dr. Norman Dunn says with medical cannabis gaining significant international traction, Jamaica is on the cusp of being a major legal transshipment hub.

LONDON, UK - CS Global Partners, one of the world’s leading government advisory agencies, is the official representative of the governments of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Saint Lucia and St Kitts and Nevis all of whom took part in the first-ever Afri-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2022), which took place in Bridgetown, Barbados, from 1 to 3 September 2022. The forum opened a new chapter for the relations between the Caribbean and Africa. Held under the theme, ‘One People, One Destiny, Uniting and Reimagining Our Future’, the forum set in motion various initiatives to further deepen and build new trade and investment relationships between Africa and the Caribbean.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – The Washington based International Monetary Fund (IMF), says that it will cooperate with the government of Suriname in adjusting the measures to be taken that are part of an agreed economic recovery plan. 

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – Jamaica Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett says tourism is “the fastest and easiest way to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor” even as he noted that the Caribbean region needs to do more to retain more of the tourism spending.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The St. Lucia has approved a 30 percent subsidy on inputs for banana farmers in light of the rising cost of production and productivity challenges faced by stakeholders in the banana sector.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Grenada government Tuesday said it had taken a decision to discontinue the 25 percent on the nonfuel charge associated with electricity supply by the island’s lone power company, noting that the company had been losing “significant revenue” as a result of the measure.