Many English-speaking Caribbean countries are heavily indebted, and their economies are stagnant.

ECONOMIST: New investors on America��s doorstep

Across the English-speaking Caribbean, work for foreigners is a touchy subject.

ECONOMIST: Importing Asian energy

But although older members of the Cocolo community still speak Caribbean English at home, most have lost their ancient mother tongue and are monolingual in Spanish.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

The BBC has announced that English for the Caribbean, Portuguese for Africa, Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian services will close, resulting in the loss of about 650 jobs.

BBC: Urgent question: BBC World Service

The English-speaking Caribbean apart, it has three broad trade blocks.

ECONOMIST: Yet another new regional club

More than 6m tourists visited the English-speaking Caribbean last year.

ECONOMIST: Here, too, drug-trafficking is to blame

According to a report last month by the World Bank, almost three-quarters of the nurses who train in the English-speaking Caribbean leave to work in the United States, Britain or Canada.

ECONOMIST: Raise wages, or lose staff

This Inter-Ministerial Meeting will embrace a workshop for experts from the English-speaking Caribbean region in order enable participants exchange their views and acquire skills to identify projects to relevant sectors, products and services by promoting the conservation of biological diversity and natural resources.

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