SAN PEDRO, Belize – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne Tuesday urged Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to move more urgently with the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) that allows for the free movement of goods, skills, labor and services across the region.

MIAMI, FL — Today, Wells Fargo announced a $20 million grant to The Miami Foundation, its largest grant received to date, to help historically disadvantaged small business owners in Miami-Dade County to own more of their businesses’ assets and improve technology to better serve customers into the future. The announcement featured Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, The Miami Foundation President & CEO Rebecca Fishman Lipsey, Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, and New Century Dance owner Alexandra Sliva, among others.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told Antigua and Barbuda to brace for increased prices for goods and services as oil prices soar past US$100 a barrel as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week.

BARBADOS – BIBA, the Association for Global Business, will host the second annual “Barbados Risk & Insurance Management” (BRIM) conference, March 21-22, 2022, in a hybrid format at Hilton Barbados Resort.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Entrepreneurs in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are being urged to take advantage of a loan program being implemented Eastern Caribbean Green Entrepreneurship Initiative’s Accelerator Program.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The British based telecommunications company, Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC) Wednesday called for a level playing field across the Caribbean even as it welcomed competition in a sector it once monopolized in the Caribbean.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) is to sign an agreement with Grenada’s two main providers of telecommunication services on Wednesday.

PARAMAIRBO, Suriname – The Suriname government has welcomed Monday’s announcement by the French company, TotalEnergies, that it has discovered a significant amount of oil and gas in the Krabdagu-1 well in Block 58, offshore Suriname..

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government Tuesday announced a 28.5 percent increase in the national minimum wage with Labour Minister, Karl Samuda, urging employers who can pay more than the minimum wage to do so.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaicans have been warned to brace themselves for increased prices as inflation threatens to breach the upper limit of the Bank of Jamaica’s (BOJ) target range over the next 10 to 12 months.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti has announced an increase in the minimum wages less than a week after police used teargas to disperse textile workers who had taken to the streets to demand an increase in their minimum wages.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Department of Public Transportation (DPT) Roger Todd says a newly arrived fleet of 10 Chinese electric buses will mean “a significant reduction, if not elimination” of cancellations.