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Forty-six representatives of firms and six representatives of Business Support Organisations (BSOs) from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago have received training which will help them to implement export marketing programmes in their countries. This is as a result of their participation in a workshop organised by the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) and InWEnt-Capacity Building International Germany. The workshop was designed to help firms and BSOs improve their export business strategies. A similar programme is scheduled for representatives from The Bahamas, Belize, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Haiti in April 2011.
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Participants have already begun to benefit from the training. Philip Browne, Business Development Officer, National Entrepreneurial Development Division (NEDD), of St. Kitts and Nevis, said: "As a BSO, I now have a better appreciation for the level of hard work and dedication that is required to transform an SME into an export ready entity."
Kim Tudor, Chief Executive Officer of the National Initiative for Service Excellence (NISE) and Claude Bochu, the Head of Political, Trade, Regional Integration, Press and Information Section of the EU Delegation to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean addressed the Workshop which was held in mid-October at Amaryllis Resort, Barbados.
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