Above: Canadian travel agents in Haiti (Photo: MT Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal tsaff A group of Canadian travel agencies arrived in Haiti on Wednesday for an exploratory trip, the Ministry of Tourism announced. The group includes 18 different Canadian travel agencies represented by 26 agents, as part of an EDUCTOUR to promote the package […]
Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Standard & Poor’s has lowered its foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Grenada to “SD” from “CCC+/C,” citing the announcement that the country would not pay its coupon due March 15. That coupon is due on the country’s US dollar and Eastern Caribbean dollar-denominated […]
Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has a business environment “needs to be strengthened,” the International Monetary Fund said following approval this week of a $7.4 million disbursement by its Executive Board. The move comes after the IMF completed the fifth review of Haiti’s performance under the Extended Credit Facility arrangement, […]