Caribbean Employment Services Inc. commends efforts to hire more women

June 30, 2023 Following an admission by Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo that the Ali administration intends to hire more women for its ongoing part-time jobs initiative, a regional recruitment…

ibex Appoints Tamara Ricketts-Brown Jamaica Country Manager

June 30, 2023 ibex (NASDAQ: IBEX), a leading global provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) and customer engagement technology solutions, today announced that Tamara Ricketts-Brown has been appointed Senior Vice…

Country Report No. 2023/231 : Costa Rica: Fourth Review Under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility, First Review Under the Resilience and Sustainability Arrangement, Request for Modification of Reform Measure Under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility, and Monetary Policy Consultation

June 30, 2023 Recent developments. Growth has been resilient despite global headwinds and inflation is on a strong downward trend. The easing of external pressures has allowed the authorities to…

Jamaica: Technical Assistance Report-Climate Public Investment Management Assessment (C-PIMA)

June 30, 2023 Jamaica is highly exposed to multiple natural hazards, including tropical cyclones, floods, and droughts. Jamaica ranks 47th out of 191 countries in the 2023 Inform Risk index.1…

Suriname: Second Review Under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility, Requests for Rephasing and Reduction of Access, Waivers of nonobservance of Performance Criteria and Financing Assurances Review

June 30, 2023 The program went off-track in mid-2022, due to the delayed completion of a prior action on parliamentary approval of the VAT law and, subsequently, to spending overruns…

St Kitts and Nevis announces extension to Citizenship by Investment Programme Sustainable Growth Fund Limited Time Offer due to unprecedented demand

June 30, 2023 International investors have been clamouring to take advantage of one of the best deals in the investment migration industry this year – St Kitts and Nevis’ Sustainable…

Process innovations will lead pathway beyond low-growth Caribbean!

By: Staff Writer June 27, 2023 The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in its Caribbean Economics Quarterly Bulletin said that the Caribbean may be doomed to a pre-pandemic low-growth model if…

Recruitment firm hopes to see more job openings in green and digital economies

June 27, 2023 The CEO of a regional recruiting firm is hoping to see more jobs in the green and digital economies after the World Bank released a report highlighting…

CEO calls for more support for informal workers to take advantage of digital economy

June 27, 2023 With the digital economy being identified as an industry that could help to address a growing problem of high instances of job informality, Caribbean Employment Services Inc.…

The Government of Barbados Forms a Coalition of Multilateral Banks to Develop Resilient Infrastructure and to Drive New Social and Nature Capital Investments, Building on Its Resilience and Sustainability Facility at the IMF

June 27, 2023 The Government of Barbados announced at the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris an integrated package of innovative initiatives to accelerate its transition to…

Haiti: Second Review Under the Staff-Monitored Program-Press Release; and Staff Report

June 27, 2023 Haiti faces a challenging macroeconomic outlook amid a humanitarian crisis. The country has been hit hard by economic spillovers from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with food price…

IMF Staff Concludes Visit to Antigua and Barbuda

June 27, 2023 An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Ms. Emine Boz, visited Antigua and Barbuda during June 19–23, 2023 and met government officials and other counterparts to…