BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A new accord will be officially signed in “the coming months” by the European Union and the 79-member Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), it has been officially announced.

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council has called on secretary-general Antonio Guterres to come up with options to help combat Haiti’s armed gangs, including a possible U.N. peacekeeping force and a non-U.N. multinational force.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Friday called on China to use its vote in the United Nations Security Council to support a call for the mobilization of an internationals security force to restore peace and stability in Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Journalists and other media professionals Wednesday vowed to actively support an anti-kidnapping campaign in Haiti.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Heads of State and Government of the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States (CELAC) will be meeting in Brussels for the EU-CELAC Summit from July 17 to 18 – the first in eight years.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – CARICOM leaders ended their three-day summit this week agreeing to have the free movement of all categories of people by March next year.

BRUSSELS – The three-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Haiti that traveled to the country last week, failed in their bid to advance the efforts of the regional integration movement to find a solution to the political and socio-economic situation there.

NEW YORK, New York – Haiti has been ranked as one of the poorest countries in the world, according to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Tuesday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, Monday appealed to the international community to help establish an international force to bring about peace and stability in Haiti, even as Caribbean Community CARICOM) leaders said the situation in the French-speaking CARICOM country “is a major item on their agenda for their summit here.

BRUSSELS – The two-day summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States (EU-CELAC) ended here on Tuesday with a Declaration containing “wide-ranging agreements” concerning all the major contemporary issues confronting both regions.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Thousands of Haitian workers alongside their Dominican colleagues have resumed work, following recent violent incidents, resulting in several deaths and provoking a total stoppage of production activities in a Haitian-Dominican free zone facility.

UNITED NATIONS – The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Catherine Russell, has warned that “the world is failing the Haitian people,” and has called for immediate action by the international community to address conditions in Haiti.