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Access to capital is critical to the growth of small
businesses, whether in the Caribbean, Latin Amer-
ica, United State Diaspora, or Canada and often
many have nowhere to turn.
But true to its goal of wealth building for the region
and its Diasporas, Invest Caribbean Now, the global
private sector Caribbean investment agency, has
teamed with several U.S.-based organizations to ex-
pand capital access to small to medium Caribbean
and Hispanic-owned enterprises in the U.S. and Ca-
nadians Diaspora.
ICN is partnering with two top organizations to offer
cash advances to existing micro-enterprises as well
as low interest loans and lines of credit of between
US$5,000 to $250,000 to small to medium-sized
businesses.
“We are thrilled to fulfill phase one of our 2014 goal
of helping to provide access to capital for Caribbean
and Hispanic-owned Diaspora Enterprises,” said ICN
founder Felicia J. Persaud. “Partnerships are key to
our success and we continue to build this with this
new service. Now it gives me hope that one day
we will also be able to do this for SME’s across the
Caribbean region.”
Invest Caribbean Now (ICN) is the definitive pri-
vate sector investment agency of the Caribbean. It
is based in America’s financial capital of the world,
New York City. Now in its fifth year, ICN is the brain-
child of Caribbean-born media entrepreneur, Felicia
J. Persaud and is owned by Hard Beat Communica-
tions, Inc.
Invest Caribbean Now promotes and pushes for the
right investment opportunities in the Caribbean re-
gion; offers a concierge service for high end inves-
tors seeking to make the right connection with key
opportunities, governments and other parties in any
Caribbean destination and connects small entrepre-
neurs in the Diaspora with SME loans and cash ad-
vances.
