PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Nestlé Trinidad and Tobago says it is laying off 46 employees mainly across its sales and warehousing teams as it prepares to transfer its distribution operations to the locally-based Massy Integrated Retail Ltd.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaican government is urging Justices of the Peace (JPs) to assist small business operators affected by Hurricane Melissa in accessing grants under a J$500-million recovery programme.

PANAMA CITY, Panama – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB, the Bank) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening women’s leadership and technical capacity in the Caribbean energy sector, underscoring that the region’s transition to sustainable and resilient energy must also be inclusive.

BANGKOK, Thailand – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that growth across the Western Hemisphere has remained resilient, supported by strong United States demand, high commodity prices, easier financial conditions, robust tourism, and remittance inflows.

OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Guyana’s President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali have discussed opportunities to deepen trade and investment ties between the two countries, the Canadian Government said Thursday.

BANGKOK, Thailand – Belize Prime Minister John Briceño says dependence on imported energy leaves households, businesses, and public finances exposed to external shocks.

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago - The Trinidad and Tobago government has signalled its intention to sell off a number of state-owned enterprises (SOE) as it turned the sod on the construction of the 200 room TT$500 million Marriott resort here.

CAIRO - African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has released its latest Barbados Country brief, offering a comprehensive and timely analysis of the island nation’s macroeconomic outlook. The brief explores key regional and international trade dynamics, financial sector developments and debt sustainability trends.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname - President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons says Suriname must ensure that the expected growth of the oil and gas sector does not lead to an economy that is primarily dependent on the extraction of natural resources.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government says it intends restarting the Petrotrin oil refinery that was officially shut down on November 30, 2018, by the Keith Rowley administration due to billions of dollars in debt and operational losses.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prominent Jamaican economist, Joseph Cox, is questioning why does Kingston continues to retain an 11.9 per cent shareholding in the Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL) which last month said it had completed its audited financial statements for a three-year period beginning in 2017.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Friday said that it is participating in a project intended to strengthen the business management, digitalisation, and resilience of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) in the Turks and Caicos Islands.