If it feels like everyone you know is going to Turks and Caicos right now, it’s not your imagination. The destination just posted the highest first-quarter visitor arrivals ever recorded, welcoming 203,587 stayover visitors between January and March, a 5 percent increase over the same period last year. That comes on the heels of a […]
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor As a member of the Inter-American Development Bank’s Civil Society Consultative Committee I was invited to present at the ‘XIV Reunion BID – Sociedad Civil’ in Nicaragua late 2014. The following are excerpts from my preparation pertaining to Caribbean youth and jobs. Regional Diversity The Caribbean, by whatever definition, […]
Above: Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Padilla Garcia (centre) at a press conference Wednesday) By the Caribbean Journal staff Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has designated Melba Acosta Febo as the new president of the island’s Government Development Bank. Acosta Febo, an attorney and CPA by trade, will maintain her role as principal official of Public Finance, […]
Above: St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Ministers of Finance from across the Eastern Caribbean held meetings this weekend in St Kitts. The officials were on the island to attend the 78th Meeting of the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, which was followed by meetings between Caribbean Finance Ministers […]
