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 […]
Innovation On The Rise Through Health Services
For over fifty years, Puerto Rico has been the home of many of the top multinational pharmaceutical companies, with over 80 plants active on the island in which the majority of the top-selling drugs in the US mainland are produced. Attracted by the country’s favorable tax incentives, the low costs of its workforce and top-of-the-line […]
Higher Education: The Key to a Knowledge-Based Economy
The Caribbean University was first born as a non-for-profit, non-sectarian and co-educational college in 1969, in the city of Bahamón, inspired on the principles of accessibility, comprehensibility and adaptability for all its students. Today, it is a major university offering a complete range of secondary degrees, from technical and associated to bachelors’, masters and PhDs. […]
Vision with Solidarity: Tourism’s Path to Resurgence
Every year, five million people from all corners of the world take a break from their daily lives and jobs and fly –or sail– to Puerto Rico. Once there, whether on its endless sandy beaches, its overwhelming tropical settings or its historic cities and towns, tourist spend around USD 4 billion, creating jobs for more […]
PUERTO RICO, Looking Ahead Beyond the Headlines
Over the past sixty years, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, officially an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Caribbean, went from being a largely rural society to becoming a fully industrialized nation, home to some of the largest and most sophisticated multinational industries in the world, such as pharmaceuticals and electronics, and boasting […]
