Commonwealth of Dominica
Caribbean tourism has been showing signs of recovery in 2011, following two of the toughest years on record. But while international arrivals have been improving and returning to 2008 levels, visitors have been spending less in a market leading to worries about the sector’s diminishing profits in a still unpredictable global environment.
Tourism in the Caribbean is the region's...
A five-year EU-funded programme is helping to prevent blindness in some of the poorer countries of the Caribbean region; Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and St. Lucia. It is being coordinated by the United Kingdom based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Sightsavers International, with its partners in the Caribbean.
The multi-faceted project is funding a range of measures from the training of...
Brussels was the location picked for the annual summit of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), 13-15 March. The intention was to draw attention of the EU to the “critically important role of tourism in the region to livelihood and poverty alleviation,” said Hugh Riley Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados-based CTO which represents 33 member countries and many private sector...
Most visitors to the Caribbean are shocked that it costs just as much to travel by air between the tropical islands as it would to North America. Is there any choice?
More than ever before Caribbean nationals have been calling for improved connections between the islands, reduced taxes on travel and an informed policy on regional travel from Governments of the CARICOM[i] trading bloc....
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the 15 member states of the Caribbean Forum for African, Caribbean and Pacific states (CARIFORUM) is to date the only ‘full’ EPA signed with the European Union (EU). This is the reason why other ACP regions are examining its bottlenecks and benefits two years after coming on stream.
Branford Isaacs, Head of the Guyana-based...
Caribbean’s private sector gets a boost
Some leading International Financial Institutions have come together to set up a $US850M (€696M) action plan to boost private sector investment across the Caribbean region. The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
Eastern Caribbean farmers slate “done deal”
A tariff deal between Latin American countries and the European Union (EU) in December 2009 in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva hails the end of a 15-year banana trade dispute, one of the longest-ever global trade wars. Eastern Caribbean farmers hit out.
The core of the deal agreed by the EU and Latin American Ambassadors...
Financial crisis: Keep people in jobs
Interview with Nazim Burke, Minister of Finance
Diagnosis
We can lump problems into three broad categories. Firstly, there has been a decline in foreign direct investment. Many of the huge tourism infrastructure projects that we anticipated (representing investments of about $US700M) will not happen. Secondly, there is also a decline in the tourism...
“We should not put all our eggs in one basket” - Interview with Prime Minister of Grenada, Tillman Thomas
The new Prime Ministerof Grenada has been in his post just a year (elected 9 July 2008), his National Democratic Congress (NDC) party defeating the previous government of Keith Mitchell, in power for 13 years.
What is the NDC government doing differently?
Our approach to...
The surprise. Even though we anticipated the beauty and friendliness attributed to the Caribbean islands, we are, nevertheless, surprised by Grenada. Older people, who still remember the island in 1983 under US occupation after the political upheavals, are surprised by the normality of this now democratic country. It is also a surprise to those who saw the devastation caused by the hurricane...
Caribbean tourism has been showing signs of recovery in 2011, following two of the toughest years on record. But while international arrivals have been improving and returning to 2008 levels, visitors have been spending less in a market leading to worries about the sector’s diminishing profits in a still unpredictable global environment.
Tourism in the Caribbean is the region's...
A five-year EU-funded programme is helping to prevent blindness in some of the poorer countries of the Caribbean region; Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and St. Lucia. It is being coordinated by the United Kingdom based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Sightsavers International, with its partners in the Caribbean.
The multi-faceted project is funding a range of measures from the training of...
Brussels was the location picked for the annual summit of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), 13-15 March. The intention was to draw attention of the EU to the “critically important role of tourism in the region to livelihood and poverty alleviation,” said Hugh Riley Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados-based CTO which represents 33 member countries and many private sector...
Most visitors to the Caribbean are shocked that it costs just as much to travel by air between the tropical islands as it would to North America. Is there any choice?
More than ever before Caribbean nationals have been calling for improved connections between the islands, reduced taxes on travel and an informed policy on regional travel from Governments of the CARICOM[i] trading bloc....
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the 15 member states of the Caribbean Forum for African, Caribbean and Pacific states (CARIFORUM) is to date the only ‘full’ EPA signed with the European Union (EU). This is the reason why other ACP regions are examining its bottlenecks and benefits two years after coming on stream.
Branford Isaacs, Head of the Guyana-based...
Caribbean’s private sector gets a boost
Some leading International Financial Institutions have come together to set up a $US850M (€696M) action plan to boost private sector investment across the Caribbean region. The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
Eastern Caribbean farmers slate “done deal”
A tariff deal between Latin American countries and the European Union (EU) in December 2009 in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva hails the end of a 15-year banana trade dispute, one of the longest-ever global trade wars. Eastern Caribbean farmers hit out.
The core of the deal agreed by the EU and Latin American Ambassadors...
Financial crisis: Keep people in jobs
Interview with Nazim Burke, Minister of Finance
Diagnosis
We can lump problems into three broad categories. Firstly, there has been a decline in foreign direct investment. Many of the huge tourism infrastructure projects that we anticipated (representing investments of about $US700M) will not happen. Secondly, there is also a decline in the tourism...
“We should not put all our eggs in one basket” - Interview with Prime Minister of Grenada, Tillman Thomas
The new Prime Ministerof Grenada has been in his post just a year (elected 9 July 2008), his National Democratic Congress (NDC) party defeating the previous government of Keith Mitchell, in power for 13 years.
What is the NDC government doing differently?
Our approach to...
The surprise. Even though we anticipated the beauty and friendliness attributed to the Caribbean islands, we are, nevertheless, surprised by Grenada. Older people, who still remember the island in 1983 under US occupation after the political upheavals, are surprised by the normality of this now democratic country. It is also a surprise to those who saw the devastation caused by the hurricane...
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