UNITED NATIONS – The Prime Minister of Belize Prime John A. Briceño says that global economic realities are exacerbating “an already acute social situation” in his country. 

NEW YORK, New York– Barbados Prime Minister, Mia Mottley will on Monday address the SDG Moment at the United Nations begins the UN High-Level Week as world leaders gather at the UN Headquarters here to highlight transformative solutions for tackling the multiple crises that have unleashed vicious cycles of poverty, hunger and inequalities worldwide.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Carla Barnett, says while the current arrangements allow for Caribbean people to “pick up and move from one CARICOM state to another” there are still problems associated with the free movement of people under the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).

NEW YORK, New York – Addressing world leaders gathered for the first fully in-person high-level debate of the UN General Assembly in three years, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the true essence of the unjust and unsustainable prevailing international order.

WASHINGTON, DC – Guyana’s President Dr. Irfaan Ali says the United States and CARICOM have agreed to establish a single food certification regime to facilitate the free trade of agricultural produce between them.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The first ever AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) opened here Thursday with host Prime Minister Mia Mottley saying the two regions “have business to do” and asserting that it was only political will keeping the two regions from establishing direct air links. 

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The CARICOM regional grouping has said it is “gravely concerned” by the continuing deterioration of the security situation and the social circumstances in Haiti.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – Jamaica will host the first Global Tourism Resilience Day on February 15, 2023 at the regional headquarters of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Mona, the island’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – President Chandrikapersad Santokhi, under pressure from opposition forces in recent months, has singled out the Association of Indigenous Villagers (VIDS) as an example of how society or parts of it stand up for their rights and obligations within the rules of law.

UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres on Friday said he is “deeply concerned” at the current situation in Haiti where civil unrest has brought the country to a standstill.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Consumers in CARICOM countries are still feeling the pinch of telecommunication roaming charges despite an agreement being signed earlier this year with two of the telecommunication providers in the Caribbean, CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Carla Barnett has said.

NASSAU, Bahamas – Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis says a solution to the political and economic crisis in Haiti must be a “Haitian solution” even as he welcomed a role for Nassau in dealing with the myriad of problems confronting Haiti.