The Bahamas Investor

...ookoo, CEO, Caribbean Banking, RBC Royal Bank; and Brian Knowles, vice president, Corporate Banking, RBC Royal Bank. (Photo by Vincent Vaughan Photography)......

...ements were made. At the most recent Heads of Government conference in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, I sought to make the point that there is unity and strength in our numbers. I gave the example then of our need to engage Canada on the question of the trade agreement which is vital to our manufacturing and export sectors. I also gave the example of the need to engage the Dominican Republic on the question of the ruling of the court in the Domin......

...amaica; Vincyfresh, Tan Bun Skrati and Armstrong Manufacturing Ltd from St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Barbados respectively. Brand 42 will be a technical partner in the project, providing customized consultations and guidance to each of the companies involved and is scheduled to begin its initial consultations at the beginning of April with the proceedings lasting for six months thereafter. Pamela Coke-Hamilton, executive director of......

..., Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Bahamas, and his counterparts from St Vincent, Barbados, St Lucia, Grenada, as well as the Environment Minister of Trinidad and the ambassador for Guyana visited the Ministry of International Cooperation and Development of the United Arab Emirates May 7. The delegation met with the UAE’s Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy. The Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler......

...enada, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The parties have committed to establishing regional shark protections by May 2015. “We applaud the British Virgin Islands for protecting its valuable shark populations,” said Imogen Zethoven, director of global shark conservation for The Pew Charitable Trusts. “It is our hope that the leadership demonstrated here will reverberate throughout the C......

...ntenance & engineering; Rashad Grant, supervisor of capital projects; and Dwight Higgs, superior maintenance. (Photos by Vincent Vaughn)......

...t least 3 per cent of GDP in Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In the case of St. Kitts and Nevis, the increase was on the order of 6 per cent of GDP, on the basis of a VAT imposed at a rate of 17 per cent. We have now deliberated on VAT for well over a year, since the release of the White Paper in February 2013. Following the issuance of the draft VAT legislation late last year, we have had consultations wi......

...ister Fred Mitchell was among a delegation that travelled to Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines, this week to meet with other CARICOM Foreign Ministers. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Foreign Ministers met to discuss national and regional issues. Pictured: (from left) Nickeva Eve on secondment to the CARICOM Secretariat; Bahamas Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell; CARICOM High Commissioner HE Picewell Forbes; and Ann Archer, Bahamas foreign servi......

...ers and, consequently, accusations of ineffectiveness arising from what St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves called its “frustrating unfulfilled potential.” The divisions threatened to tear the organization apart. The focal point of CARICOM’s regional ambitions is the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), proposed in 1989 to deepen the integration initiative of CARICOM and to more successfully respond to globalization......

...ow; Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley; and Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves. Pictured: (second row, from left) Prime Minister of The Bahamas Dr Hubert Minnis; Premier of Montserrat Donaldson Romeo; Premier of the British Virgin Islands, Dr Orlando Smith; President of Suriname Desire Delano Bouterse; Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr Keith C. Rowley; Prime Minister of Saint Lucia Allen Chastanet;......

...added capacity to Aruba, Bahamas, Bonaire, Cayman Islands, St. Kitts, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Turks and Caicos, and is increasing its service to Barbados, Curaçao, Puerto Plata and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and St. Lucia. Also on CHTA’s radar are new Southwest flights to Cancun and the Mexican Caribbean; Grand Cayman; Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; and Turks and Caicos. The airline is also expanding its service to San Juan, P......

...evelopment Service (BELTRAIDE), Curacao Investment and Export Promotion Agency (CINEX), the Grenada Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), the Centre for Facilitation of Investments in Haiti, Invest Saint Lucia (ISL), Jamaica Promotion Corporation (JAMPRO), InvestSVG (St. Vincent & the Grenadines), the Investment and Development Corporation of Suriname (IDCS), and iInvesTT (Trinidad & Tobago). Pictured: Delegates from the region’s’ Investment......

...people and the industries upon which it depends. One of the ways we can effectively do this is to reduce our dependency on single-use plastics.,” said Vincent Sweeney, head of the UN Environment’s Caribbean sub-regional office.......

...informal talk will be led by ARC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Holly Bynoe (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) and Junior Editor/Curator Blake Daniels (USA). Centered around Caribbean and diasporan-based artists whose practices intersect various disciplines, the group will also highlight critical concerns in the development of visual language through the examination of private and public realities of contemporary Caribbean society. Volta NY 2014, 82 Merce......

...erence in January, the then Minister of Financial Services and Investments Vincent Peet declared himself to be decidedly “bullish” about the nation’s economic prospects for the year ahead. Central Bank governor Wendy Craigg offered up a similar prognosis via video, predicting steady growth going forward, and the then Prime Minister Perry Christie painted a rosy economic outlook, noting that key indicators remain strong in the foreseeable future. E......