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Americas Competitiveness Forum Begins in Trinidad and Tobago
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Jamaica Is Making a Comeback, With 300,000 Visitors Since the Storm, Airports Open and Resorts Welcoming Guests Again

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Across Jamaica’s main tourism corridors, the signs of return are unmistakable. Flights are arriving on schedule. Resort districts are active. Restaurants, attractions, beaches, and cultural sites are operating with the steadiness of a destination that has moved beyond emergency response and into winter-season rhythm. Just over six weeks after Hurricane Melissa struck the island as […]

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Jamaica: IDB Approves $60 Million Loan to Improve "Competitiveness"

Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $60 million loan aimed at improving “competitiveness” in Jamaica, the bank announced last week. The loan will “promote tax and land titling reforms and improve access to credit,” the bank said. The loan is part of the third phase […]

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St Lucia Launches National Competitiveness and Productivity Council

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s government has officially launched the new National Competitiveness and Productivity Council. St Lucia Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony, who was the featured speaker at the council’s inaugural meeting, said the council brought to the fore “the uncomfortable truth that increase in wages in Saint Lucia, […]

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Is Jamaica Serious About Tourism?

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor EACH time I am away, I can’t help but do a comparison between the country I visit and Jamaica. In particular, I always look at the main industry of the country and contrast it against Jamaica, if it is an industry that Jamaica competes in also. Over the past few […]

St Lucia Launches National Competitiveness and Productivity Council

By Paul Hay Op-Ed Contributor In the “Competitiveness of Small Nations: What matters?”, Densil Williams and Beverly Morgan analyze the competitive performance of Singapore, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago under the “Global Competitiveness Report” over a period spanning 2004/5 to 2010/11. Singapore consistently outperformed the Caribbean nations. Smallness is typically seen as a disadvantage to […]