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Doing Business Online in the Caribbean in 2021
By Nerissa Golden Doing business online in the Caribbean in 2021 and beyond is no longer optional for the region. The new Global Digital Insights report, produced by DataReportal in collaboration with We are Social and HootSuite, puts figures to the experience which was 2020. The pandemic forced everyone indoors and online and this manifested…
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Antigua Cruise Port completes $30M Pier
Antigua Cruise Port announced today that it has completed construction of the fifth berth, which is the newest pier at St John’s Port. This momentous $30 million investment, which was undertaken before the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, was finalized in November 2020 despite minimal interruption created by the unwelcome virus. The pier work…
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Startup Huddle invites entrepreneurs to apply for YLAI 2021 Fellowship
Startup Huddle Antigua & Barbuda is inviting entrepreneurs from all sectors across Antigua & Barbuda to apply for the YLAI 2021 Fellowship! @ https://www.ylai.state.gov/apply #YLAI2021Trailblazers The deadline is February 25, 2021. A special guest from the YLAI – IREX team will be in attendance at the next Startup Huddle session to answer any questions that entrepreneurs may…
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Cabinet holds emergency meeting
The Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda will meet in an emergency session today. Government’s Chief of Staff Lionel ‘max’ Hurst says one of the items on the agenda is an extension of the curfew hours. Over the weekend Prime Minister Gaston Browne placed the nation on notice that stricter measures including extending curfew hours are…
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IMF warns tourism activity will remain subdued, limits strength of economic activity in Eastern Caribbean
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the ECCU economy hard, and until it is brought under control, tourism activity will remain subdued and will, in turn, limit the strength of economic recovery. The near-term policy imperative is to protect lives and livelihoods and limit potential scarring, while ensuring medium-term debt sustainability with strengthened fiscal frameworks and…
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Fraudulent Website Bank of Nevis (Bermuda)
It has been brought to the attention of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) that a company by the name of ‘Bank of Nevis’ having an address, 19 Reid Street Hamilton HM HM 15, City of Hamilton, Bermudas, with a website address of www.bankofnevis.com is purportedly providing cryptocurrency savings and fixed cryptocurrency accounts. The ECCB wishes to…
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Weston charges LIAT’s destruction was ‘deliberate’
A government minister in Antigua and Barbuda linked Barbados to what he described as attempts to steal LIAT or destroy the regional airline. In a scathing address to the Parliament in John’s on Thursday, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Governance Lennox Weston, while not naming Barbados directly, made references to…
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Antigua and Barbuda looking at Chinese loan to repay debt for port works
Antigua and Barbuda has communicated its interest in accessing a US$25 million loan from China to help repay debt assumed to carry out works to restructure Heritage Quay in St John. A new pier is being built at Heritage Quay by Meridian Construction to handle giant Royal Caribbean International Oasis-class ships, allowing the port to…
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VIDEO: Budget Presentation by St. Peter MP Asot Michael
VIDEO: Budget Presentation by St. Peter MP Asot Michael
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Scotiabank closes main branch
Scotiabank closes main branch
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Brydens closes administrative offices
Brydens closes administrative offices