BRIDGETOWN Barbados – The Secretary General of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, Tuesday said multilateralism is the appropriate, if not only, framework for effectively meeting global challenges, such as threats to peace and security, the fight against terrorism, violent extremism, organized crime, pandemics, and the ongoing crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Members of the regional grouping the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have pledged financial donations to help Haiti in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake earlier this month.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government has announced seven no movement days in the country in a bid to curb the latest surge in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases here.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti says it will end on Friday the search and rescue operations more than two weeks after a powerful earthquake struck the southern part of the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country, killing more than 2, 200 people and 300 others missing and now feared dead.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana government has warned persons caught with forged coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination cards that they will face the full force of the law as it rolled out the immunization campaign for children ages 12 to 17.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The former chairman and publisher of the Jamaica Observer newspaper, Gordon “Butch” Stewart, was inducted into Caribbean Media Hall of Fame, during the virtual ceremony marking the 52nd Annual General Assembly of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) on Monday night.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – In an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19 across the island Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday announced the extension of the no-movement days for two more weeks.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – A human rights group is warning that several suspects held in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise at his private residence on July 7, could be released because of a number of legal violations.

NEW YORK, New York – A Brooklyn, New York-based umbrella organization calling itself Guyanese Organizations Against Racism (GOAR), which comprises 25 groups in the New York tri-state area, says it will on Sunday host a massive march and rally in Brooklyn against alleged racism in Guyana.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) Monday said that it will legally challenge the decision by the authorities to lock out nurses and other government employees who have not been vaccinated or refuse to take a PCR test for the coronavirus (COVID-19).

WASHINGTON, D.C. -The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Friday called on the global community to respond “swiftly and meaningfully” to the situation in Haiti, where an earthquake last Saturday killed more 2, 100 people, injuring thousands and several others missing and feared dead.

BOGOTA, Colombia, – Less than a week after Colombia publicly called on Haitian authorities to ensure guaranteed legal and medical rights of their nationals detained in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moise on July 7, a Colombian official has been allowed to visit the detainees in prison.