Both Barbados and Jamaica passed substantive data protection laws in the past 18 months. Neither jurisdiction has, however, taken the relevant procedural steps to actually make their privacy laws enforceable.
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[FinTech] Barbados launches Regulatory Sandbox
In Barbados, the Financial Services Commission and the Central Bank have jointly created an important regulation: the Regulatory Sandbox Framework for the Financial Services Sector. Sandbox Benefits The no-fluff definition of a regulatory sandbox? A temporary observatory where regulators try to figure out whether a new financial product/service is fish or foul. Let’s flesh that…
ECTEL proposes net neutrality language in draft regulations to complement revised Electronic Communications bill
The Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL) is the regional, multi-state telecoms regulator for the Eastern Caribbean. Recently, ECTEL put forward a slew of recommendations on various regulatory instruments to be enacted in the Eastern Caribbean. The regulations would go hand-in-hand with the proposed revisions to the Electronic Communications bill. The proposed regulations cover: infrastructure sharing;…