Opening Lines

Barbados has joined five other Caribbean countries to launch an online investment guide or iGuide with the support of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Caribbean…

The University of the Virgin Island’s (UVI) Research and Technology Park (RTPark) announced recently that applications have now opened for the Spring 2020 cohort of Accelerate VI, a startup accelerator…

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is urging Member States to continue to be vigilant and to step up surveillance at their ports of entry, although the risk of the…

The Caribbean Export Development Agency has recently received commendation from H.E. Ambassador Daniela Tramacere, Head of the EU Delegation of the European Union to Barbados, Eastern Caribbean, OECS, and CARICOM/CARIFORUM,…

Technology giant Mastercard recently announced the launch of its Smart Islands program in the Caribbean, leading the journey towards developing smarter islands and cashless societies to strengthen economies throughout the…

At least one person is said to have been killed when a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico on Jan. 7th, following a 5.8 magnitude quake the day before. And…

The Bahamas is in line for US$50 million to help it recover from the devastating Hurricane Dorian which left Grand Bahama and Abaco in shambles when it hit at the…

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a US$20 million credit to support Grenada’s transition to a resilient blue economy. The Second Fiscal Resilience and Blue Growth Development…

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Mission Chief for Barbados, Bert van Selm says the Barbados government is doing a good job of getting the economy back on track, but there…

FDI Intelligence, a service from the Financial Times, advises that Dominica is one of the top 20 tourism destinations of the future, in a recently published FDI Strategy ranking. Furthermore,…

Third-party insurance for fishing vessels may soon become a reality for small-scale fishers as a result of the recent stakeholder meeting organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the…

State Minister for Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green, says Government is working to make the export of local goods and services easier, by reducing the associated costs and…

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) recently announced it has entered into definitive agreements to sell all banking operations in the Eastern Caribbean to a consortium of indigenous banks within…

Raising the profile of the Caribbean’s orange economy (also known as the creative economy), exchanging best practices, innovation, and cultivating relations was the focus of the recently held mission of…

By Marsha S. Cadogan, Bsc. LLB. LLM. PhD Canaan Bridges Consulting; MSC Intellectual Property and Technology Law   The World Intellectual Property Organization, the body that governs intellectual property laws…