Financial Crisis/ Recession



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    Washington -- July 19, 2010 -- Antigua and Barbuda’s economy is experiencing its worst recession in decades.

    June 17, 2010 -- The Department of Tourism has said it has saved over $1 million by closing three regional offices in the United States. In what it describes as a restructuring of its US operations designed to “increase the efficiency and effectiveness” of the Cayman Islands tourism investment in the US market, the offices in Miami, Houston and Chicago will be closed and 12 staff made redundant.


    Washington -- April 21, 2010 --  Having weathered the global downturn comparatively well, the LAC region is posting a strong recovery. More balanced than in most other areas, output growth in the region is supported by both external and domestic demand. Recovery in the LAC region has been shaped by a number of factors.


    April 3, 2010 -- The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved Grenada’s request for a new three-year arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF),1 totaling SDR 8.775 million (about US$13.3 million).

    Georgetown, Cayman Islands -- March 16, 2010 -- Last year the Cayman Islands Government, in agreement with the United Kingdom, commissioned an independent study to determine the feasibility of implementing revenue sources for the Government. This study also entailed examining the Government expenditures as well as its debt sustainability.


    Kingston -- Feb. 5, 2010 -- The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Feb.4 approved a 27-month Stand-By Arrangement with Jamaica in the amount of SDR 820.5 million (about US$1.27 billion) to support the country’s economic reforms and help it cope with the consequences of the global downturn. A disbursement of SDR 414.3 million (about US$ 640 million) will become available to Jamaica immediately.

    Road Town - Jan. 2, 2010 -- A compendium of Government statistics has revealed more than a third of hotel rooms and guest houses lay empty in 2008.


    Kingston -- Dec. 17, 2009 -- The Jamaican authorities and an IMF staff mission have reached agreement on the key elements of a program that the IMF would support with a loan under a Stand-By Arrangement (SBA).


    Dec. 15, 2009 -- The European Commission approved the first financing decisions in favour of eleven African and two Caribbean countries for a total of € 230 million, including € 215 million under the so-called Vulnerability FLEX mechanism (V-FLEX).

    Nov. 21, 2009 -- The issues for Anguilla are easy to summarise - the massive downturn in our tourist industry, and other consequences of the recession; the much greater attention paid to so-called "tax havens" by the G20...the game has changed, is still changing, and will change still further.

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