Executive Director of the Dominica Coalition of Service Industries (DCSI) Lester Riviere has underscored the need for government assistance in order to realize the full potential of the island’s services sector.

DCSI’s Executive Director Lester Riviere told the launch, where Dominica’s National Export Strategy was officially, formally presented, that between 2008 and 2010, the services [...]

The past two decades have seen exciting changes with developing countries emerging as exporters of services. Technological developments now make it easier to trade services across borders. But other avenues are being exploited: tourists visit not just to sightsee but also to be treated and educated, service providers move abroad under innovative new schemes, and [...]

The Barbados Coalition of Service Industries in collaboration with the National Cultural Foundation will be hosting the final phase of consultations on the 2011 cultural bill (draft), as the agencies’ seek to ensure a policy that supports sustainable business development and the export of Barbadian creative and cultural products and services.

Industry leaders, such as [...]

“No boundaries, only frontiers”; that’s the mantra of the Barbados Coalition of Service Industries (BCSI) for 2012.  Re-launching the organisation in its silver anniversary year, last evening BCSI bosses and staff gathered together at the 3W’s Pavilion with government officials, various industry stakeholders, development partners and members of the BCSI.

The event kicked off the [...]

Dozens of top American companies are asking lawmakers to insert language into future trade agreements that protects the free flow of information on the internet, Reuters reports.

“We’re now in an era where the economy is literally driven by the Internet. It’s a digital economy,” Rick Johnston, senior vice president for international government affairs at Citigroup, said, [...]