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ST GEORGES, Grenada – Grenada, known as the spice island of the Caribbean, is hosting its 10th annual, week-long Grenada Chocolate Festival. The festival, which started in 2014, will take place from May 16 – 21, 2023, and celebrates the rich history and culture of chocolate production in Grenada. The island is home to six chocolate companies: Tri-Island Chocolate, Belmont Estate, Crayfish Bay Organic Chocolate, Jouvay Chocolate, Taste ‘D’ Spice Chocolate, and the world-famous Grenada Chocolate Company, a pioneer of […]

By Chanel Spence KINGSTON, Jamaica, (JIS) – The government is well on the way to providing the committed 70,000 solutions to the housing market. The objective is to address a housing deficit of approximately 100,000 units in the country. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, said that the National Housing Trust (NHT) has pledged to deliver 43,000 of the 70,000 solutions and 35,000 of these are at different stages of development. “This means that they have [units] in the ground, they have come […]

By Russell Hsiao With less than nine months left before Taiwan’s national elections are held on January 13, 2024, Beijing is rolling out a suite of economic measures to ostensibly influence Taiwanese voters. Immediately following the overt military pressure demonstrated by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) exercises encircling Taiwan after President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) met US speaker Kevin McCarthy in California during a transit through the United States (see Eric Chan’s article in this issue), the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s […]

By Government Press Office | BELIZE BELMOPAN, Belize – The Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics, and E-Governance (MPUELE), alongside the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan), successfully launched the Bullet Tree Falls Digital Connect Center in Bullet Tree Falls Village, Cayo District under the National Digital Inclusion Programme. The National Digital Inclusion Programme, which is guided by Belize’s National Digital Agenda 2022-2025 and executed by the e-governance and Digitalization Unit, is supported by the Embassy of the Republic […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica – On 27 March 2023, Dr Wayne E. Archibald, executive director, Green Solutions International SKN Incorporated (GSI), signed an exclusive international partnership agreement with Shawn O’Brien, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners® (NABCEP®) to establish NABCEP Caribbean, the first regional hub for solar energy training and development throughout the Caribbean region as well as the US Virgin Islands. NABCEP credentials are a voluntary certification that provides a set of […]

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– Resilience and reliability are crucial in the performance of logistics WASHINGTON, USA – The World Bank today released its 2023 Logistics Performance Index report, a measure of countries’ ability to move goods across borders with speed and reliability. The seventh edition of Connecting to Compete, the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) report comes after three years of unprecedented supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, when delivery times soared. The LPI, which covers 139 countries, measures the ease of establishing […]

BOCA RATON, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The ODP Corporation (NASDAQ:ODP) will kick off the company’s sixth annual Day of Service company-wide philanthropic initiative on April 22 with a $250,000 donation to Boys & Girls Clubs of America to support kids and teens across the country. From April 22 through May 6, associates from The ODP Corporation’s operating business units, under the brands Office Depot OfficeMax, ODP Business Solutions, Veyer and Varis, will volunteer on 16 service projects to enhance local Clubs in their […]

Without an extra $97 billion in funding, many countries won’t be able to meet their national education goals for 2030, according to a new UN report released. The report calls for a quick review of funding. The paper asks, “Can countries afford their national SDG4 benchmarks?” The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was made to help with the spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It […]