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IMF board decision hangs over Georgieva as annual meetings begin

Data-rigging allegations against International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva were set to loom over the opening of week-long IMF-World Bank annual meetings on...

Barbados – Call for Region to Collaborate to Capitalise on Available IMF Financing

President of the Caribbean Development Bank, (CDB) Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon has proposed that the US$2.5 billion in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) available to...

DEBT REDUCTION FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MUST BE PART OF RESPONSE TO POST COVID-19 ECONOMIC SITUATION: CARICOM SG TO UNCTAD XV

An effective response to the post Covid-19 economic situation must include significant and broad debt reduction for all developing countries, including vulnerable middle to...

Trinidad and Tobago Implements the International Monetary Fund’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System

Trinidad and Tobago has implemented the recommendations of the IMF’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS) by publishing essential data through the National Summary...

FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIR JEROME POWELL: U.S. HAS NO PLANS TO BAN BITCOIN AND CRYPTO

On Thursday afternoon during the Oversight of the Treasury Department's and Federal Reserve's Pandemic Response hearing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed that the U.S. has no...

CDB President calls for strengthening social resilience to place the Caribbean on a sustainable welfare path

Delivering the keynote at the 22nd Annual SALISES Conference, being held virtually from September 28-30, Dr Leon highlighted that the education system is the...

AMIDST RATING DOWNGRADE, BAHAMAS SET TO GROW BY 8% IN 2021

The US-based rating agency Moody’s downgraded the sovereign creditworthiness of The Bahamas slashed the country’s long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings to ‘Ba3’ from...

Yellen warns Congress must address debt ceiling before Oct. 16 or risk default

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is telling Congress that the Treasury Department will likely exhaust all of its “extraordinary measures” to avoid an unprecedented default...

CDB to provide US$32.5 million to Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda to increase resilience

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved loans of US$25 million to Antigua and Barbuda and US$7.5 million to Anguilla to counter COVID-19 fallout...

CARICOM FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET US DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE – VACCINES, CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES RAISED

Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) impressed upon United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman the urgency for the delivery of the...

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