carib-export
-
Saint Lucia’s Private Sector to Get a Financial Boost from Caribbean Export
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has awarded some €303,000 in financial assistance to seventeen (17) successful grant applications via the Direct Assistance Grant Scheme (DAGS) in Saint Lucia. Additionally a further three firms were awarded just over €29,000 in funding via a special call for proposals for food safety all , as part of the Regional Private Sector…
Read More » -
CAIPA and Caribbean Export focus on implementing a Regional Investment Promotion Strategy
Bridgetown, Barbados, November 21, 2014. Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion agencies (CAIPA), in collaboration with the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), through funding support from the European Union under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF), Regional Private Sector Development Programme (RPSDP) hosted the Annual CAIPA General Assembly at the Embassy Suites by Hilton, Dominican Republic from November 17-18, 2014.…
Read More » -
Caribbean must improve export performance
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Exports from the Dominican Republic and Jamaica to Europe are trending up, but the Caribbean as a whole has earned a less than stellar report card from the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA). Pamela Coke-Hamilton, executive director of CEDA, assigned grades ranging from a B- to an F in giving the report card on various areas of…
Read More » -
Improve standards to generate growth – Minister Darcy Boyce
(Caribbean Export Development Agency) Public and private sector entities across the region have been urged to improve business processes to best standards, in an effort to generate economic growth and employment. According to Darcy Boyce, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister of Barbados, the region cannot afford to wait on projects to be developed and executed only at…
Read More » -
Regional private sector needs urgent support – Caribbean Export
(Caribbean Export Development Agency) Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency, Pamela Coke-Hamilton says private sector organizations across the Caribbean are in urgent need of support as they continue to mitigate the negative effects of the global recession that started six years ago. Coke-Hamilton, in an address to delegates at the opening of the Caribbean Exporters’ Colloquium in Bridgetown,…
Read More » -
2nd CARIFORUM International Financial Services Conference
On October 30-31, the 2nd CARIFORUM International Financial Services Conference took place in Antigua and Barbuda at the Sandals Grande Resort. The two-day conference examined the emerging framework of governance of international finance and new non tax business models to guide the future of Caribbean financial centres in an increasingly competitive international environment. Just over a hundred experts and practitioners…
Read More »