The Caribbean Business Community (North America) Inc.

ABOUT US

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalm 133:1

About Us
Caribbean Business Community (North America) Inc. (CBCNA™) was founded in 2001 by Alan St.C Byles, retired entrepreneur of Jamaica, known for his successful organizations in the 70’s, such as: Small Cars Limited; the Volkswagen/Porsche Distributors, House of Fuller; manufacturers of Fuller brand brushes chemicals & cosmetics, Alan Byles Limited; sole distributors for General Electric Company, Bell & Howell, Sunbeam Corporation and many other Blue chip companies; Bestwell Estates; a vegetable and tobacco plantation, and Wholesale Supply Company (Jamaica) Limited, a Real Estate holding company.

The Caribbean Business Community (North America) Inc. is a Florida Corporation based in Miami, Florida, USA. and is operated by a team of reputable, experienced management and dedicated staff taking pride in promoting and practicing Caribbean unity, encouraging trade with one another, and seeking more non-Caribbean people to do business with the worldwide Caribbean Community.
The millions of Caribbean people living in North America now have a new, bold communicative forum via the information super highway.

CBCNA™ have produced this detailed, interactive web site to unify the diverse settlements of Caribbean people dispersed throughout North America, to encourage them to do more business with one another and encourage other people in North America to do more business with Caribbean People and the Caribbean Countries. The CBCNA™ theme is "Let's do business with one another". It is intended to be the home site for Caribbean Nationals living abroad, and stresses the need for them to integrate into the community while preserving their many cultures, and promoting each other.

CBCNA™ is the conduit to enjoin North American immigrants from the Caribbean with the countries they left behind and further the continuance of their cultural base, it also exposes the Caribbean to its worldwide opportunities through the talents of their countrymen there, and the comfort of doing business with their own.

We are indeed proud to see the groundswell movement that is starting to gain massive momentum.

Mission Statement
The Mission of CBCNA™ is to encourage all Caribbean people to seek out our qualified Professionals, Businesses, and Service people, trade with one another, and influence all other people worldwide to do more business with us. We shall endeavor to be partners with Community Institutions and Groups, with a common goal to create a competitive community and an improved quality of life for all.

The Directory
The CBCNA™ Directory is a valuable, low cost tool for buyers and sellers specifically wishing to reach Caribbean counterparts, and all other people generally. It is the largest Internet trade directory of its kind, dealing foremost with Caribbean Businesses, Professionals, Resorts, Services and Nationals, and it is growing daily.

Visitors to the site are able to search Companies, Services, and Individuals that are precisely indexed to a proprietary classification of product and service types.
This is the most accurate, precise industry-wide product and service identification system pertaining to the Caribbean Community, providing the seller with an audience that is global and precisely focused.

The phenomenal response by consumers is told in the daily record of visitors and page views. One need only visit this remarkable Portal to appreciate the reason that success has been achieved in such a relatively short period of time.
It does take many a visit to complete the exploration of the voluminous sites and profiles of Businesses, Professionals, Resorts and Services.

Search Method
CBCNA™ Directory offers 5 search methods that create multiple entry points for the user. This unique flexible and comprehensive directory system ensures our users of an accurate search. Search methods include, by category, product and service type, company name, last name, city, country of origin.

Objectives and value proposition of our system
CBCNA™ Directory uses the most advanced service and product indexing technology available and is the most advanced, comprehensive trade directory covering Caribbean origin and Caribbean based listings, thus creating the most attractive value proposition for buyers and sellers.

This Mega web Portal offers a virtual reality tour of each Caribbean country, and provides accurate, constantly updated profiles on Caribbean professionals, businesses and services in North America and the Caribbean, complete with their specialties in addition it also features Caribbean Students Associations; Alumni Associations; Non-Profit Organizations and their members; a human resource guide; tourism related matters; live music; media contacts; and a plethora of other important data information and entertainment, thus generating massive exposure to its members.

The very tangible emphasis that CBCNA™ has been placed on the promotion of The Caribbean as a premier Resort area is already paying off for that Industry as can be seen by the acclamations and testimonials originating from Tourist related groups and Resorts.

CBCNA™, as a gesture of goodwill in 2001, provided all Businesses, Resorts, Professionals and Services with complimentary Advertising for one year, and the testimonials have been nothing short of awesome.

Business Model
The CBCNA™ Directory is based upon the traditional model. Buyers do not pay to access seller information. Those wishing to appear on our Portal may choose from several options such as shown in the Promote Your Business area of our site.

Advanced Communication
CBCNA™ gives buyers the ability to contact sellers directly from the seller’s profile with the use of automatic e-mail capabilities, and gives our subscribing members the instant ability to contact buyers in a like manner. This is one of the most impressive personalized direct marketing tools. Save on brochures, stuffing, addressing, and mailing, send your profile with a personalized note.

CBCNA™'s site is likened to a huge, on-going symposium on Caribbean matters. Not only is it designed to assist the peoples of the Caribbean grow their businesses in North America by providing a communicative network for contact with each other, but also serves to connect North American businesses with the Caribbean, its people and its markets and this has been enhanced by its ever expanding and comprehensive Caribbean Islands database.