St Lucia ranked best in Caribbean for business

(CNS): According to a new report from the World Bank St Lucia is the best place in the Caribbean region to do business. The report 2012 Doing Business report ranked the country at 52 in the world for the ease of doing business and tops in the region followed by Antigua and Barbuda at 57th and Dominica at 65th.  Haiti was the lowest-ranked country in CARICOM when it came to how easy it is to do business, ahead of Suriname.  Among the top Caribbean countries were Trinidad, which was ranked 68th, and Grenada, which came in at 73rd. Jamaica was listed at 88th place but was top in the Caribbean to start a business, according to the report, followed by Dominica.

See the full report which did not assess overseas territories here