Nevis Premier Heads to Aruba For Telecom Conference

By: - July 15th, 2013

Above: Nevis Premier Vance Amory

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Nevis Premier Vance Amory departed the island on Saturday to attend the 29th annual CANTO telecommunications conference in Aruba.

Amory is participating in a “Ministers’ Monday” today, meeting with colleagues from islands including Aruba, Barbados, Cayman, Grenada and others.

CANTO, which is based in Trinidad and Tobago, is a trade association of Caribbean telecom firms.

This year’s conference is focusing on the theme “Towards a Smart Broadband Caribbean Community.”

Increasing broadband access has been a major issue for Caribbean governments in recent years.

The Inter-American Development Bank in particular has been partnering with CANTO to accelerated the broadband push.

In 2011, a World Bank report found that St Kitts and Nevis had the highest broadband subscription rates in the Caribbean.

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