Caribbean Forum on Energy Transportation and Resilience
Monday, June 24, 2019 — The Caribbean Forum on Energy Transportation and Resilience will be held from June 26-27 at the Bay Gardens Beach Resort in Saint Lucia under the theme “Opportunities for Investment and Innovation”. WHAT The main objective of the forum…
Travel Guru Doug Lansky to headline Caribbean Forum in Miami
MIAMI (May 14, 2019) – Travel expert Doug Lansky will keynote the Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum (CHIEF) event at Hyatt Regency Miami, June 21-23, 2019. The annual event, now in its fifth year, welcomes more than 400 hospitality and…
ECLAC calls for creation of subregional mechanism to facilitate youth participation in development frameworks
Caribbean Forum on Population, Youth and Development is examining strategies to institutionalize youth involvement in the sustainable development of the subregion (July 26, 2018) The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean has called on decision…
Finance and HIV experts gather in Haiti to debate new strategies for making the HIV response sustainable
JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV AND AIDS www.unaids.org PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION www.paho.org WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION www.who.int News and Public Information Port au Prince, Haiti, November 2, 2017– The Third Latin American and Caribbean Forum on Sustainability of the…
Experts make ‘slow, steady progress’ on safe seafood policies
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, 16 December 2016 (CRFM)— There is still a long way to go but experts meeting here Thursday expressed optimism that slow but steady progress was being made toward introducing region-wide laws, rules and regulations intended to make Caribbean…
Bahamas debt higher than ‘2/3 of world’
By Neil Hartnell Tribune Business Editor From Tribune 242 The Bahamas may be the least indebted tourism-based economy in the Caribbean,but a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive has warned its debt-to-GDP ratio is higher than “two-thirds” of other countries. This…
Jamaica’s finance minister outlines pitfalls to Caribbean economic growth
By Marie Claire Williams From Caribbean360 MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica,, CMC – A two-day High Level Caribbean Forum began here on Thursday with Jamaica’s Finance Minister Dr. Peter Phillips warning that sustainable growth and development in the Caribbean will not be…