PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Regional Agri Investment Forum and Expo II began on Friday with calls for the Caribbean private sector to reconsider their existing roles in helping the region significantly reduce its multi-billion dollar food import bill.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says that the performance of the tourism sector, as outlined in the latest report by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) highlights the fact that tourism is driving the island’s post-COVID-19 economic recovery.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica is among 10 countries that will benefit from a multi-million dollar grant from the United States to improve the spice industry here.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) says the island had registered export earnings of US$511.1 million during the first four months of the year, a 1.3 percent increase over the US$504.4 million earned for the corresponding period last year.

Since the beginning of the year, Puerto Rico has broken its record of jobs in the leisure and hospitality sectors every month, signaling a robust reboot of the economic engine.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Consumers will be paying less for gasoline and diesel come Friday, as Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced that the price of fuel at the pump will be capped for the next five months.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Some 600 young farmers and fishers across five parishes will benefit from support to bolster their enterprises and combat climate change under the pilot ‘Strengthening the Adaptive Capacity of Farmers and Fisherfolk in Jamaica’ project.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Thousands of workers took to the streets in the capital here on Friday deploring the Keith Rowley government’s offer of four percent salary increase as an “insult” and vowing to step up their actions in the coming days.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica and the Cayman Islands have initiated discussions to facilitate collaboration on tourism to boost their respective tourism sectors. 

WASHINGTON, DC – A new study by the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has found that many companies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) survived the COVID-19 pandemic by slashing investment, but that this decline now threatens to constrain the region’s economic recovery.

NASSAU, Bahamas – Governor of the Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBB), John Rolle, says the local economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 imposed contraction, adding that this reflects the strong rebound in tourism and ongoing support from foreign investments that include healthy demand for upscale residential real estate.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana's parliament on Monday night gave the green light for the cultivation of industrial hemp with opposition legislators from the coalition A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) being absent for the passage of the Industrial Hemp Bill.