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Caribbean Week in New York - There's an App for That! Regional tourism development agency launches app for Caribbean Week in New York NEW YORK – The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) goes mobile with the launch of an app for Caribbean Week in New York. The application makes it easy for mobile users to locate and access Caribbean Week activities, as well as share photos...Read More... 3rd Annual Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF) Launched Port of Spain, Trinidad - The 3rd annual Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF), an initiative of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment (MTII) and presented by invesTT, was launched today at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad, Port of Spain. CIF 2013 will take place on June 10th and 11th at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre...Read More... Guyana’s Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce to be the featured speaker at the Caribbean Trade Center’s Invest Guyana forum in Miami MIAMI - Guyana’s Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce the Honorable Irfaan Ali will be the featured speaker at the Caribbean Trade Center’s Invest Guyana forum to be held on Thursday May 23, 2013 at the Firefighters Memorial Building 8000 NW 21st Street, in Doral Florida. Ali, who also holds the portfolio of Minister of Housing and...Read More... Hyatt Regency Trinidad Hosts Sustainable Meetings Conference PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Sustainable tourism took the stage at Hyatt Regency Trinidad, as the Caribbean’s premier business hotel played host to the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)'s 14th Sustainable Tourism Conference (STC-14). In line with Earth Day and coming off the heels of Carnival, the hotel located in the heart of downtown Port...Read More... U.S. State Department Official For Invest Caribbean Now (ICN) 2013 NEW YORK - The Obama administration is sending a representative to Invest Caribbean Now this June, as the Caribbean Diaspora in the U.S. gears up for Caribbean American Heritage Month and Caribbean Week in New York. Anthony Eterno, of the U.S. State Department's Office of Caribbean Affairs, Western Hemisphere division, will...Read More... OpEd from World Bank Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean - 2030: Shared Prosperity is Possible in our Region By Hasan Tuluy WASHINGTON, DC - The World Bank, under the leadership of President Jim Yong Kim, has focused attention on the ambitious and demanding work to eliminate extreme poverty in the world's population by 2030 and to increase the income of the poorest 40 percent in order to promote shared prosperity. It may sound...Read More... Recognizing Caribbean American Cross-Cultural Contributions to the Global Marketplace Atlanta, Georgia - The 2013 Caribbean American Networking and Social Media Series will kick off in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday May 23, 2013. The annual recognition identifies professionals and civic minded individuals of Caribbean heritage, living in the city of Atlanta, who has contributed and/or played an influential part to the multicultural...Read More... PanaCarib partners with ReviewPro To Help Hotels Manage Online Reputation Negril, Jamaica - PanaCarib Business Solutions has joined forces with ReviewPro, the international leader in online reputation management for hotels, to create an exciting partnership. This relationship will now empower Caribbean hotels with the tools they need to drive revenue growth by improving guest satisfaction through responding to online...Read More... New Health Care Center Opens in Coconut Grove to Help Poor, Uninsured and Others COCONUT GROVE - Community Health of South Florida Inc. (CHI) will hold the grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting ceremony for its new Coconut Grove Health Center on May 6th at 10:30am. The new state of the art, soothing, spa-like facility will be an upscale medical center that caters to everyone. Those without health insurance and...Read More... Remittances flows to Latin America and the Caribbean remain stable at $61bn WASHINGTON, DC - Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) showed a slight increase in 2012 with respect to the previous year, according to the latest report on remittances by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group. The report, “Remittances to Latin America and...Read More...   Next Last

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