Kingston, Jamaica, July 2, 2014 – Jamaica’s fast-growing business process outsourcing industry (BPO) is projecting a growth rate of 50 per cent in the next two years, and the creation of 7,000 new jobs. Some of that growth is expected to be facilitated by the creation of a business incubator for BPO businesses to be […]
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Bridgetown, Barbados, July 23, 2014 – Grenadian firm, Protein From Waste and Local Crops Inc. (PFW), has successfully won a bid to demonstrate the viability of small scale protein rendering for animal feed supplementation, using locally available organic and fuel wastes. This was made possible through a Compete Caribbean technical assistance grant valued at USD178,020.
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Washington, DC, June 5, 2014 – Over 40 international tourism experts will speak on various aspects of sustainable coastal and marine tourism at the 3rd Symposium for Innovators in Coastal Tourism, taking place July 9-11 in St. George’s, Grenada. Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. The Right Hon. Keith Mitchell, and Grenada Ambassador to the U.S.,
Bridgetown, Barbados, June 11, 2014 – Caribbean LED Lighting has successfully won a bid to further develop its business and increase its export markets through Compete Caribbean technical assistance valued at USD250,000. Compete Caribbean is a private sector development program that provides technical assistance grants and investment funding to support productive development policies, business climate
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Will Trinidad & Tobago’s energy services suppliers outlast the country’s energy supply? This was one of the questions posed to the participants of the Joint Dialogue on the Trinidad & Tobago Private Sector Assessment Report (PSAR) by Dr. Carlos Elias, author of the PSAR, in Port of Spain, February 19. The Joint Dialogue was hosted
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The first Compete Caribbean Regional Consultative Forum (RCF) and Strategic Regional Dialogue on Private Sector Development in the Caribbean was held on April 8th and 9th, 2013 at the Cave Hill School of Business, the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill campus), Barbados.
An initiative of Compete Caribbean, a five year private sector development programme involving 15 Caribbean countries, the newly launched Enterprise Innovation Challenge Fund (ECIF) is providing matching grants to encourage innovation by Caribbean firms and support their implementation of such projects.
