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Travelers Are Flocking to Turks and Caicos Right Now, With Record Arrivals, New Hotels, and Six New Flight Routes

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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 […]

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A Boost for Caribbean Small Businesses

Above: IFC Headquarters By the Caribbean Journal staff The International Finance Corporation, a division of the World Bank, and Barbados National Bank have launched the Caribbean SME Toolkit in Barbados today, bringing the country an online guide for small- and medium-sized enterprises in the region. The toolkit, which has been launched in Grenada, Guyana and […]

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Caribbean Joint Action Plan Commits $960 Million in First Year

The European Investment Bank By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Joint Action Plan, a collaboration between six leading development banks aimed at bringing the Caribbean out of the downturn, has totaled more than $960 million in commitments to private and public sector projects in the region in its first year. That number represents more […]