Business View Caribbean | March 2020

6 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN MARCH 2020 information to investors and we anticipate that the iGuide will be a tool to attract more foreign investment in line with our developmental needs”. Caribbean Export in cooperation with the EU and CAIPA has been working with UNCTAD to develop iGuides for Caribbean countries as part of an overall Regional Investment Promotion Strategy (RIPS). To date, they have supported the launch of iGuides in Jamaica, Curacao, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines thus far, with an iGuide previously existing in Antigua and Barbuda. This latest launch in Barbados brings the total number of Caribbean based iGuides to five and there are two more iGuides in development for St. Kitts and Nevis, and Turks and Caicos, while plans are in place to also include Trinidad and Tobago on the platform. “The idea is not just to promote Barbados but to promote the whole Caribbean as a market for investment opportunities. And, if you can present the big market, which is the Caribbean, you would be much more successful in attracting investment,” shared Ian Richards, Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD. We anticipate that the iGuide will be a tool to attract more foreign investment in line with our developmental needs