RIO DE JANEIRO, /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- The economic impact of COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the global tourism industry, especially in the Caribbean which could see an escalation of poverty for workers. Unions affiliated to the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) from across the Caribbean held a virtual summit today to raise awareness of the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on jobs and communities in the region.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says it anticipates that the introduction of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), scheduled for 2022, will serve to bolster government service delivery and boost financial inclusion for a greater number of Jamaicans.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamas government Wednesday presented a budget that Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis said reflects the fact that “our economy will not likely return to full capacity during the upcoming fiscal year”.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Cabinet has granted approval for the Double Taxation Agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Jamaica.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Competition is coming for telecommunications giants FLOW and Digicel, following Cabinet’s approval for a third service provider, Rock Mobile, to be granted a license to operate here.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says the extreme uncertainty surrounding the tourism recovery in the Caribbean highlights the importance of boosting innovation and supporting transformations that align tourism destinations and products with post-pandemic global demand trends.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) has announced a new moratorium on the regulatory treatment of payment deferrals or restructured loans due to the measures put in place by the authorities here to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., PRNewswire/ -- HEINEKEN USA will be sponsoring its first-ever National Football League (NFL) team as the exclusive import beer and hard seltzer partner of the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium. The import beer category exclusivity includes alcohol-free beer, hard seltzer and the company's flagship beer, Heineken®.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government says the EXIM Bank plans to on-lend approximately J$5.5 billion (One Jamaica dollar=US$0.008 cents) to the productive sector during the financial year.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – At least 500 nationals could find employment within the Jamaica-based Sandals Resorts International (SRI) when it begins the recruitment drive in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the next few weeks, a senior SRI official has said.

MIAMI, Fl. — Hip Rock Star Advertising, a trailblazing, award-winning advertising, marketing, and communications agency that focuses exclusively on building today’s socially conscious brands, recently received multiple awards from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA).

Washington, DC – Burdensome student loan debt, home appraisal bias, disparate mortgage lending pricing, historic discriminatory federal policies still adversely affecting the growth of Black homeownership, and the overarching societal effects of the pandemic are subjects of 2021 Spring Policy Conference to be convened by the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) May 12-13, 2021. This year’s sessions are framed by the conference theme, “Increasing Black Homeownership: Are Current Housing Public Policies a Boost or a Hindrance?”.