WASHINGTON, DC – A new report by the Organization of American States (OAS) notes that a significant number of nationals in Latin America and the Caribbean are “moderately or severely food insecure.”
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HAVANA, Cuba – The government of Belgium has donated 29 buses to Cuba, that will be used to reinforce public transportation here and to support cultural institutions.
UNITED NATIONS – A senior United Nations official says Haiti must remain at the “forefront” of the international agenda amid the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the French-speaking CARICOM country.
LOS ANGELES, CA – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Canadian Government have announced multi-million-dollar aid for Latin America and the Caribbean.
NAIROBI, Kenya – Barbados Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Dr. Jerome Walcott, has officially opened the CARICOM diplomatic mission in Nairobi making it the first for the 15-member regional integration movement on the African continent.
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands – The board of governors of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) began its 52md annual meeting here on Wednesday with an indication that the region’s premier financial institution intends to advance food and nutrition security, energy and water security as its “big initiatives for 2022” and beyond.
Los Angeles California – Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks has reiterated a call for access to concessional financing for middle income countries, if Jamaica and other developing countries to create an enabling environment for investment.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Guyana has re-affirmed its commitment to an initiative by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to reduce food insecurity in the Americas.
ROSEAU, Dominica – Trade officials Monday dismissed a video circulating on social media warning Dominicans to brace themselves for a scarcity of essential goods and services as a result of rising prices for petroleum products.
The annual Trelawny Picnic in New York, returning after a two-year COVID-enforced absence, drew more than three thousand Trelawnyites from across the United States, Canada, and Jamaica to the Rockland County State Park in Nyack, upstate New York, this past Sunday, May 29.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, criticizing the trade embargo placed on Venezuela by the United States, is calling on CARICOM leaders to approach Caracas for assistance in dealing with the rising costs of energy products.
LOS ANGELES, CA – Four CARICOM leaders on Friday joined their counterparts from Latin America, the United States and Canada in signing the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago is observing the 177th anniversary of the arrival of indentured laborers from India, with a public holiday on Monday amid calls for a recommitment to unity among the races and religions in the oil-rich twin island Republic.
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