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February 26, 2016
Prime Minister writes address for Export Outlook publication
THE second edition of the Caribbean Export Outlook yearly publication was launched in Grand Bahama on Thursday, and features an address from Prime Minister Perry Christie.
Remarks by Prime Minister Christie at Jamaica Stock Exchange's Investments & Capital Markets Conference
January 19, 2016
Remarks by Prime Minister Christie at Jamaica Stock Exchange's Investments & Capital Markets Conference
I would like to thank the Jamaica Stock Exchange for inviting me to bring the keynote address this morning.
January 18, 2016
Floating currency during challenging growth 'one option to mobilize economy'
CFAL President Anthony Ferguson is not surprised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) assertion that "allowing for exchange rate flexibility will be an important means for cushioning the impact of adverse external shocks in developing economies", given the structure of the Bahamian economy.
IMF revises world economic growth outlook down 0.2
January 18, 2016
IMF revises world economic growth outlook down 0.2
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has moderated its growth expectations for the world economy since October, cutting its 2016 and 2017 forecasts across the board by 0.2 percent in the face of a slower-than-expected pickup in global activity, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean, where the IMF is now projecting a contraction of 0.3 percent in 2016, following a contraction in 2015, befor...
Doha and the Caribbean
January 06, 2016
Doha and the Caribbean
Unlike the recent climate change talks in Paris, or even the late September global agreement on sustainable development goals at the UN - despite its equal importance - the outcome at the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Tenth Ministerial meeting in Nairobi, was scarcely mentioned in the Caribbean media.
Cuba's dire need for foreign investment - part 1
December 04, 2015
Cuba's dire need for foreign investment - part 1
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and Cuba?s subsequent hardship while transitioning to a more decentralized economy in its ?special period,? Cuba has implemented significant economic changes.
Wilson calls for 'quantum leap forward' on trade
November 11, 2015
Wilson calls for 'quantum leap forward' on trade
Two trade missions are hitting Grand Bahama in the coming weeks, one from China and one from Houston, Texas, and as the business community on that island and in the wider country considers the question of international trade, chartered accountant and business mogul Franklyn Wilson said The Bahamas must take "a quantum leap forward".
October 28, 2015
Pre-financial Crisis Factors Persist, ECLAC Warns: Trade Overhaul Needed
In its 2015 annual report, released this month, the Division of International Trade and Integration of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) asserted that the factors that contributed to the crisis of 2008 and 2009 have persisted.
September 18, 2015
Attorney General Addresses Intellectual Property Legislation in the Senate
The proposed Compendium of Intellectual Property Legislation allows Bahamians to ?create? wealth by protecting their ideas so that they can commercially develop their innovations
September 10, 2015
Surging U.S. natural gas production an opportunity for the Caribbean
As The Bahamas continues to wrangle with ways to cut energy costs along with the rest of the region, a surge in U.S. natural gas production from the shale boom could lead--through significantly increased U.S. gas exports to the region--to lower electricity prices, reduced carbon emissions and more secure energy supplies in the region.
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