Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Tuesday November 27, 2018 – Today, Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Scotiabank’s banking operations in Guyana, St. Maarten and the Eastern Caribbean territories, including Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The […]
The small states of the Commonwealth could be losing out on $4.5 billion of overseas development assistance, a preliminary Commonwealth Secretariat study has shown. In response, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland will call for strategies to help small and vulnerable states improve their ability to effectively access and use development assistance. The Secretary-General is due to speak in […]
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Chairman of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) has underscored the necessity of unity if the small islands that comprised the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) were to develop. The Hon. C. Sandra Husbands, Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Barbados, urged delegates at the two-day […]
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Approximately fifty public sector officers in Barbados were this week shown processes on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Public Procurement Electronic Notice Board. The engagement was held on Monday and Tuesday, 12-13 November and was geared towards assisting the procuring entities across the public sector and state-owned public sector organisations to […]
The organizations will devise a framework agreement to facilitate joint initiatives in areas such as biotechnology, bioinputs, pollination and food production. San José, 12 November 2018 (IICA). Manuel Otero, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), met with Ronald Guendel, Global Head of Food Chain Relations at Bayer CropScience, as part of […]
KINGSTON, JAMAICA: Recent reports of the reduction in murders in Jamaica (about 300 less than last year), while encouraging, provide no reason to think the country has turned the corner on crime. The reduction represents about a 22 per cent decline in murders, which means that our murder rate has declined from about 58 per 100,000 […]
Bridgetown, BARBADOS, November 11, 2018. Emerging and established Caribbean fashion designers benefited from expert advice and industry tips while participating in the recently concluded Fashion is Big Business Workshop, held during the International Fashion Festival – Barbados Fashion Week between 26-28 October 2018. The workshop, which was facilitated by the Caribbean Market Centre, featured a […]
Tuesday, 30 October 2018 (PANCAP Coordinating Unit, CARICOM Secretariat): The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), with funding from the CARIFORUM 10th European Development Fund (EDF) Programme of Support for Wider Caribbean Cooperation commenced the Regional Meeting for Advancing Recommendations for Addressing Gaps in the Human Rights Response under the PANCAP Justice For All Programme in Kingston, Jamaica on 30 October […]
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The upcoming Special Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) will be the focus of a meeting on Thursday between, CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr the Honourable […]
