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1 month ago | caribbeannewsglobal.com | Chris Patterson

By Chris PattersonKINGSTON, Jamaica, (JIS) – Minister of industry, investment and commerce, senator Aubyn Hill, says the government is committed to building out the digital ecosystem to foster greater participation of local entities in international trade.

1 month ago | caribbeannewsglobal.com | David Baxter

By David BaxterHow can sustainable PPPs and resilient infrastructure help accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Just days after the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) hosted a gathering of public and private sector public-private partnership (PPP) practitioners in Geneva to discuss exactly this.

1 month ago | caribbeannewsglobal.com | Ming Zhang

By Ming ZhangOver the next decade, an unprecedented 1.2 billion young people in the Global South will become working-age adults. However, the job market in these countries is projected to create only 420 million jobs, leaving nearly 800 million people without a clear path to prosperity. That’s why the World Bank is doubling down on job creation and employment as not just the byproduct of our projects, but the explicit aim of them.

2 months ago | caribbeannewsglobal.com | Ron Paul

By Ron PaulThe wailing sound you heard last Thursday was the chorus of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at president Trump’s suggestion that there was no reason for the United States to be spending one trillion dollars on “defense.”“…[O]ne of the first meetings I want to have is with president Xi of China and president Putin of Russia, and I want to say let’s cut our military budget in half. And we can do that, and I think we’ll be able to do that,” the president told reporters.

2 months ago | caribbeannewsglobal.com | Chris Patterson

By Chris PattersonKINGSTON, Jamaica, (JIS) – The government will be pursuing the development of an electronic Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System, as part of the ongoing public-sector transformation thrust, during fiscal year 2025/26, disclosed by Custos Rotulorum for Kingston, Steadman Fuller, delivering the Throne Speech during the 2025/26 Ceremonial Opening of Parliament at Gordon House on February 13.