The Caribbean Council is pleased to announce our New UK Trade Mission to Guyana & Suriname 2025 GUYANA TRADE MISSION IN GEORGETOWN FROM 24-28 NOV FOLLOWED BY REST DAY IN PARAMARIBO 29 NOV SURINAME TRADE MISSION IN PARAMARIBO FROM 30 NOV-4 DEC Expand your business horizons in Guyana and Suriname! Join The Caribbean Council’s UK Business […]| The Caribbean Council
8 August 2025 The fourth AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2025), held from 28-29 July, marked a milestone in Africa-Caribbean economic relations, with over US$290mn in agreements signed across sectors such as infrastructure, education, tourism, and trade. Under the theme “Resilience and Transformation: Enhancing Africa-Caribbean Economic Cooperation in an Era of Global Uncertainty,” the Forum […]| The Caribbean Council
01 August 2025 Central America attracted US$3.12b in Foreign Direct Investment in the first quarter of 2025, a 2.8% increase year-on-year. The biggest winner was El Salvador with US$322m in investment, 65% more than in 2024. Conversely, Panama suffered the greatest loss with US$526m, 51% less than the previous year. With US$921 in FDI, Costa […]| The Caribbean Council
28 July 2025 Speeches and interventions made during the recently ended meeting of Cuba’s National Assembly and an earlier plenary session of the Central Committee of Cuba’s Communist Party suggest that the island may be entering a period of increased economic uncertainty, that government may struggle to deliver its economic objectives, and could find it […]| The Caribbean Council
25 July 2025 Prime Minister Kamla Persad‑Bissessar has declared a nationwide State of Emergency (SoE), marking the second such decalaration in under a year since last December’s emergency lapsed in mid‑April. The move comes after police uncovered a “coordinated and highly dangerous criminal network” operating within the prison system and plotting “assassinations, robberies, and kidnappings.” […]| The Caribbean Council
21 July 2025 Describing the present moment as being amongst the most difficult in recent Cuban history, President Díaz-Canel has called on all Cubans to commit their energy and effort to finding solutions to meet the challenges now facing the country. “This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that the […]| The Caribbean Council
18 July 2025 With the US Senate having agreed to a 1% remittance tax in the Big Beautiful Bill Act, regional countries are counting the cost of its implementation with questions on oversight and mechanics. The Guatemala Central Bank, Banguat, calculates an impact of US$200-225m, Honduras has estimated the tax will cost the country US$100m. […]| The Caribbean Council
14 July 2025 Cuba’s President has said that Cuba is now “a country at war.” It is, he told a Central Committee plenary of Cuba’s Communist Party held on 4-5 July, at risk from a “Machiavellian combination” of actions by the US Administration. Washington “not only aims to destroy the scarce resources” that Cuba has, […]| The Caribbean Council
11 July 2025 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit, the first by an Indian Prime Minister in Trinidad and Tobago’s history, has culminated in the signing of 15 bilateral agreements spanning health, education, trade, digital services, agriculture, justice and culture. Modi, who landed amid elaborate security arrangements, was welcomed by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar who […]| The Caribbean Council
07 July 2025 President Trump has signed a National Security Memorandum, tightening and extending significantly US sanctions on Cuba. The order is expected to expose non-US companies to greater secondary US sanctions risk if they transact or do business with any of the many Cuban enterprises and their subsidiaries that are linked to Cuban military […]| The Caribbean Council
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04 April 2025 Only days after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s tour of the Caribbean, President Donald Trump has created another powder keg when he announced sweeping global tariffs on countries…| The Caribbean Council
