Director’s Desk: Strategies for increasing economic resilience in the Caribbean. -- Strategies to avoid debt traps among developing countries as they pursue the SDGs. -- Promoting a competitive tourism industry in the Caribbean through upgrading and diversification. -- Financing agro-processing in the Caribbean. -- Building a case for trade driven economic restructuring in the Caribbean: an examination of the Trinidad and Tobago Trade Policy. -- Recent and upcoming meetings. -- List of Recent ECLAC documents and publications.