NEW YORK, New York – The Pure Jamaican group of companies (Pure Jamaican), a multinational organization, has announced the donation of 10,000 premium, award-winning, feminized cannabis seeds to St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has partnered with GK Insurance to introduce the Parametric Rain, Drought and Wind Insurance Policy for the agricultural sector.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana Agriculture and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) have reached an agreement ensuring that workers are compensated for the difference between their usual productivity per punt and the actual canes cut and loaded or cut and stacked.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Regional trade unions representing former employees of the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, say they have rejected the latest offer by Caribbean shareholder governments to meet their financial obligations to the laid off workers.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Veteran St. Lucian banker Carol Mangal has become the first female to lead the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) Bankers Association.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) had made a call for a better debt deal for developing countries.

MIAMI, FLORIDA – Despite daunting challenges presented over the past 18 months by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Caribbean tourism and hospitality industry recorded many significant successes, and data points to an encouraging outlook ahead.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Gaston Browne Monday said salaries and wages for public sector workers will be paid on time but ‘admitted that “it is becoming increasingly difficult’ as the country continues to feel the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Agriculture Minister Floyd Green says the external demand for Jamaican agricultural produce and value-added items continues to increase, despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched the series of publications aimed at accelerating the recovery of the tourism industry in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Friday ended a visit to the island, indicating that the Barbados economy “remains severely depressed” as a result of the ongoing global coronavirus (COVID019) pandemic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched an acceleration program for STEM startups led by women in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).