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Improving The Legal Framework for Protecting Minority Shareholders in the OECS – WEBINAR
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Community-Based Tourism Toolkit
This Community-Based Tourism toolkit will help emerging CBT enterprises develop their businesses. The CBT Toolkit includes 5 Tools that Business Support Organisations and Entrepreneurs can
Grand Funding Available for Tourism Cluster Proposals
AWARDS: USD100,000 to USD400,000 intechnical assistance grants. Call for tourism or agri-tourism clusters to increase spending on community-based experiences and sustainable food chains, with $400,000
How can blockchain help to increase access to finance for Caribbean SMEs?
Block-chain has the potential to combine dimensions of digital identity like never before. Not only aggregating alternative information, block-chain maximizes frictionless transactions, security, and individual
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Jamaica Intellectual Property Asset Workshop 2018
Get Up, Stand Up for Your Rights: Intellectual Property (IP) Rights. How IPRs Can Help Our Creators Access the Finance They Need to Innovate and
Jamaica Intellectual Property Asset Workshop 2018
Get Up, Stand Up for Your Rights: Intellectual Property (IP) Rights. How IPRs Can Help Our Creators Access the Finance They Need to Innovate and
Call for Cluster Proposals – Results
In November 2017, Compete Caribbean closed a competition for clusters projects across the region, which received 91 applications. Following a thorough, systematic and difficult evaluation
Regional Policy Dialogue (Jamaica) – Presentations (August 23-24, 2017)
The low level of innovation in the Caribbean is a constraint to the region’s economic growth, and technological change represents a key factor in increasing
Compete Caribbean hosts inaugural mediathon for Caribbean journalists
November 23 , 2016 –Compete Caribbean’s final event in its three-day long celebration and dialog was the climax of the Mediathon at the IDB Barbados
Compete Caribbean Celebration & Stocktaking Event (Day Two)
Media Release November 22, 2016 Compete Caribbean host regional dialogue on competitiveness The Compete Caribbean Regional Dialogue held at Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre on Tuesday
Compete Caribbean Celebration & Stocktaking Event (Day One)
Media Release November 21, 2016 Compete Caribbean celebrates end of Phase 1 Compete Caribbean today hosted a ceremony at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre for
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Local Firm Awarded First Compete Caribbean Technical Assistance Grant in Barbados
Bridgetown, Barbados, June 11, 2014 – Caribbean LED Lighting has successfully won a bid to further develop its business and increase its export markets through

Will Trinidad & Tobago’s energy services suppliers outlast the country’s energy supply?
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
Strategic Regional Dialogue on Private Sector Development in the Caribbean and the Compete Caribbean Regional Consultative Forum
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.

Support For Caribbean Innovation
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