The View from Europe: Action needed to address Caribbean cyber security
By David Jessop From The Barbados Advocate Just over a week ago Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Visa and many more premium providers of global web services, temporarily went offline. This was because they had indirectly suffered the effects of…
IDB helps thousands of Caribbean SMEs do business with China
From Trinidad Express WASHINGTON, Oct. 23,CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it is helping thousands of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) do business with Canada. The IDB said 3,000 business meetings…
DB helps thousands of Caribbean SMES do business with China
From wiredja WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it is helping thousands of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) do business with Canada. The IDB said 3,000 business meetings were held…
Action Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean
From GROUNDSWELL Since the last regional meeting in Brazil, our Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) partners have taken a great stride to consolidate a regional program, through an action-learning framework that provides a common “roadmap” yet celebrates the diversity of…
Caribbean agri-exports to China could grow by almost 10 per cent
By CMC From WiredJa Online News WASHINGTON, Sept 28, CMC – A new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has found that agricultural exports from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to China could increase by almost 10 per…
Understanding mobile money trends in Latin America & the Caribbean
By Tiago Novais From GSMA A great opportunity for mobile operators to offer mobile money services and close the financial access gap still exists in Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC). The unbanked and underbanked population in the LAC region…
FEATURE: Bioelectricity in Latin America and the Caribbean – opportunities for collaboration
From LEDS global Partnership This feature looks at the benefits of biomass resources for electricity generation in Latin America and the Caribbean, and provides background information on our newly launched Community of Practice, ‘Bioelectricity resource potential in member countries’. The…
First Assessment of SLCPs for Latin America and the Caribbean released
BY CCAC SECRETARIAT Reducing dangerous air pollutants in Latin America and the Caribbean will benefit health, eco-systems and the climate Efforts to reduce dangerous air and climate pollutants by Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries could reap immediate and long-term…
OECD Releases Tax Statistics For Latin America, Caribbean
By Mike Godfrey, From Tax-News.com, Washington Tax revenues in Latin American and Caribbean countries rose slightly in 2014, despite a slowdown in economic growth, according to a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The average ratio of…
O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. announces the expansion of the OTOW Network In Latin America and the Caribbean
With the pending closing of the acquisition of Technologies Argus First de Mexico O2 Secure Wireless takes the next step in global telecom tapping into a $201 Billion Market ST AUGUSTINE, Fla., Nov. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — O2 Secure Wireless,…
