The Insurance Arena in Puerto Rico: Growing with Minimal Interruption
Over the past decade, many international insurance companies have decided to establish operations in Puerto Rico, as a base from which to penetrate both the US mainland market and the fast-growing markets of Latin America. The reasons for their choice are mainly related to the incomparable financial and legal advantages offered to such companies by […]
Haiti’s Leading Water Bottling Company
Founded in 1973, the Caribbean Bottling Company (CBC), is the first company in Haiti to provide customers with state-of-the- art Water Filtration equipment (household, commercial and industrial) and bottled drinking water under the world-known brand “Culligan”. Previously operating as a family business under the name Sada et Debrosse, the company experienced financial and operational difficulties. […]
HAITI; A fertile land where every seed turns into profit
EA history of growth impaired by a history of instability. In the period of the 1970’s and 1980’s Haiti lived a moment of accelerated growth, coming to have the highest rate of growth in the Caribbean. It also had the highest tourism rates, a healthy emerging industry, a flourishing economy. During the 1980’s, international organizations […]
Haiti; Towards the construction of a national electric network
On the day he took up office, the new Haitian president Jovenel Moïse made the ambitious promise to electrify the entire country 24 hours a day. The challenge is all the more daunting in a country where only 37% of the population has access to electricity, and where the link between energy, productive sectors and […]
Haiti; Centre de Facilitation des Investissements Haiti
The Center for Facilitation of Investments (CFI) is Haiti’s national investment promotion agency mandated to promote investments and help potential investors find and take advantage of opportunities in Haiti. It was created in January 2006. Their objective is to support investors from the first stages of interest through to post-establishment of their companies. The center […]
(Puerto Rico; Part 2): Laying the Foundation for Economic and Social Prosperity
Bird Group LLC For the past nearly fifty years, the name of the Bird Group has been linked to almost all major construction projects in Puerto Rico, and the company is now run by the third generation of professionals raised within the company in an almost familial way, in which not only knowledge and experience, […]
Dominican Republic; A Cultural Perspective
GLOBALIZATION IS TRANSFORMING ECONOMIES, MELTING AWAY BORDERS AND FUELING DIVERSITY. It cultivates a transculturation that enriches communities and gives promise in attaining a better quality of life. While these factores nurture the dream-building spirit, they shift our focus from an important task. At a key point down development lane, a sense of loss in identity […]
(Part 1): Laying the Foundation for Economic and Social Prosperity
PART 1
Infrastructure Construction
Puerto Rico
SKN: Nevis Island Government Article
The two islands having been among the earliest British colonies – from the 17th century to independence in 1983 – filling Britain’s coffers through the production of sugar. There, however the similarities end, the rivalry between the islands, united since 1882, reflected in the divergent policies of their parallel administrations with a unique constitutional arrangement […]
The Dominican Republic Economy
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: IS IT WORTH INVESTING?We might think that a country that is in Central America and that is as small as the Dominican Republic, could be risky as an investment, but contrary to what you might think, let us expose you to the immense benefits of betting financially within this territory. In the first […]
