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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Monday, February 20, 2023) — Public Works Minister, Juan Edghill, reassured Black businesses and entrepreneurs that numerous opportunities exist in all sectors for small contractors. The minister was speaking during a procurement training session for members of the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Monday, February 6, 2023) — Prime Minister, Mark Phillips, met with a team from the Jamaica National Group on Friday at his office on Camp Street, and discussed possible areas of investment. During the discussion, the delegation, led ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Friday, October 21, 2022) — Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, welcomed the $300-million investment by Chinese technology company. Huawei, with the inauguration of its new office space, located at 97 Hope Road, Kingston 6. The complex has 9,000 sq. ...

HOUSTON, Guyana (Thursday, July 21, 2022) — A new hotel property, Four Points, by Sheraton–Marriott Bonvoy, to be constructed at Houston, along the new Eccles to Mandela Road bypass highway, is just one component of the rapid economic zone set ...

By Alka Sood Senior Business Advisor, BDC Margin killers are oversights and inefficiencies, throughout your business, that may seem small on their own, but together, can make the difference between a flourishing company and one that struggles to survive. Two ...

OTTAWA, Ontario (Wednesday July 20, 2022) — The rate of Consumer Price Index (CPI) continued to rise, last month, reaching 8.1 percent, year over year, following a 7.7 percent gain in May, Statistics Canada announced today. The increase was the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Wednesday July 13, 2022) — Senior Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh, announced, yesterday, that the government has made its second draw-down from the Natural Resource Fund, in accordance with the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act 2021. The Minister ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Wednesday, July 13, 2022) — With Crop Over and other public events making a return this summer, the Central Bank of Barbados is encouraging Barbadians to be vigilant when making cash transactions, and to check their money, as ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Tuesday, July 12, 2022) — The government has announced that it will continue to transform the public transportation sector, by using more renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). Speaking at the launch of the Government Electric Vehicle Trial ...

By Philippe Massiera Guest Contributor According to the U.S. research and consulting firm, CB Insights, most entrepreneurs fail because they lack sufficient financing. The second reason they fail is because the market for their product is too small. Yet many entrepreneurs and ...