By Caribbean Business Report The United Kingdom has announced nearly $1 million in new funding to extend the decade long “Accelerate trade facilitation” programme for another year. Established in 2015, the programme is a collaborative initiative led by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of the United Kingdom, and the […]
By Caribbean Business Report Small and Medium Enterprises are the backbone of economies across the Caribbean, Africa, and beyond, but access to finance and export opportunities remains a challenge. Mindful of this constraint, Republic Bank and the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), with cofounding from the European Union via the 3rd Regional Private Sector […]
By Caribbean Business Report The Caribbean Development Bank and the Caribbean Tourism Organization are collaborating on a new initiative to modernize tourism education and workforce development across the Caribbean – strengthening the region’s competitiveness in an industry vital to its economic stability. The Tourism Human Capital Development Project, funded through CDB’s Caribbean Technological Consultancy Services […]
By Katherine A. Foss, THE CONVERSATION | Editorial credit: Tada Images / shutterstock.com Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic. The novel coronavirus, dubbed SARS-CoV-2, began as a “cluster of severe pneumonia cases of unknown cause” reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It had […]