BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) concerned at the low level of workers in the sector, is worried that even more workers are eying the cruise ship industry.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana says more than a dozen donor agencies and 250 exhibitors are to participate in the country’s premier Agriculture Investment Forum and Exposition that gets under way on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, DC – Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) lags behind on digital technologies in transportation, which presents a major opportunity to boost a key economic sector, according to a study undertaken by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

NASSAU, Bahamas – The government of The Bahamas says it has entered into a US$100 million agreement with the US-based Electra America Hospitality Group for the purchase of the Grand Lucayan resort.

FLORIDA – As the tourism sector rebounds strongly from the near shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) is calling on the region’s “bread and butter” industry to ramp up efforts to be adequately staffed to meet the impending surge of arrivals and continued growth.

WASHINGTON, DC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Tuesday said that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on Belize in 2020, leading to a 16.7 percent contraction in real gross domestic product (GDP) and an increase in public debt to an unsustainable level of 133 percent of GDP.

NASSAU, Bahamas –The Bahamian economy exhibited a measured pace of recovery during 2021, the Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBB) has said.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – The first cannabis consumption lounge in St. Vincent and the Grenadines opened late Friday at the Coconut Grove beach club, with people obtaining permits to buy cannabis products for a year, after an onsite consultation with a physician.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Jamaica-based manufacturer and distributor, Seprod, says it has reached an agreement to acquire AS Bryden & Sons Holdings, one of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading privately owned consumer products distributors.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The British multinational automotive firm, Inchcape, says it has completed the acquisition of the 50-year-old Simpson Motors, five months after the locally-owned company had announced the merger of the three companies.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) has entered into a partnership with the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) allowing for the capital markets of the two countries to expand their products and services to investors.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Central Bank of Barbados will within a few days, unveil new banknotes that will go into circulation at the end of this year.