Latin America A Growing Market

With Latin America identified as one of the fastest growing markets for Barbados to do business with, the LatAm Inward Mission held recently at Hilton Barbados attracted 11 service providers from Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala and Venezuela.

Director of Invest Promotion at Invest Barbados, Kenneth Campbell, speaking to media representatives on the margins of the event, expressed pleasure at this, as he deemed the forum a "follow-up" to determine how to further attract foreign direct investment into the island.

Acknowledging that Invest Barbados had targeted persons with a crucial role to play in ensuring this business relationship developed, he said: "These are the service providers in the various markets. So, we are targeting the lawyers, the accountants, the tax advisors who bring with them a kind of base and they would encourage others to use Barbados as part of the international tax planning programme."