KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – The Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Tuesday said that the global community is facing very challenging times with respect to trade and that this is probably the most disruptive period in global trade since the 1930s.

GENEVA – The executive director of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), Misha Lobban Clarke, says the eighth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025) held here last week highlighted the importance of the private-public partnership.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica says Caribbean countries share common goals of utilizing information and communication technologies to drive economic and social development.

SANTIAGO, Chile – The executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Tuesday said the creation of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in 2021, marked a decisive step towards more integrated and effective cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana Tuesday launched a trilateral trade mission aimed at providing opportunities for stronger relations and business ventures in Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname and the host country.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, has sounded the alarm over the sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti.

GENEVA – The United Nations Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk, said Friday that the human rights crisis in Haiti has plummeted to a new low, with gangs extending their reach beyond Port-au-Prince and into the central regions of the country, carrying out killings, rapes and kidnappings.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Trade and economic development ministers from the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) began a two-day meeting here on Tuesday against the background of many trade-related challenges facing the region, and in a geo-political environment which is changing very rapidly.

GENEVA – The head of the Disaster Risk Reduction, Recovery and Resilience Building Team at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Crisis Bureau, Ronald Jackson, says a new report is calling for a reimagining of development strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with a resilience lens.

BRASILIA, Brazil - Antigua and Barbuda Friday said it is looking forward to boosting trade, improving transport connectivity, and reinforcing regional supply chains and trade corridors with Brazil, saying these are all essential steps toward achieving food security and building lasting resilience across Latin America and the Caribbean.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts — Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Timothy N. J. Antoine, says political support is critically important to the successful creation of a regional regulator for Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programs across five countries in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU).

GENEVA – The Bahamas will host the Ninth Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean (RP26) during the first week of May next year,’ Minister of State responsible for Disaster Risk Management, Leon Lundy, has announced.