Barbados is set to receive a payout of US$5.8 million on its Excess Rainfall policy due to heavy rainfall, under the country’s CCRIF catastrophe insurance policy.

This is in the wake of heavy rainfall, which occurred during the passage

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Earthquakes and tsunamis are an ever-present threat to Jamaica. The country’s location on multiple geological faults subjects it to up to an average of 200 earthquakes per year.

This natural disposition, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management

As firms’ expectations for economic growth waned and their willingness to invest in new plant and equipment dipped — primarily because of the depreciation of the Jamaican dollar against the United States currency — co-chair of the Economic Programme Oversight

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says its Regional Economic Outlook for the Western Hemisphere has marked down its growth forecasts for Latin America and the Caribbean to 1.2 per cent in 2018 and 2.2