QUITO, Ecuador – Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have called for the establishment of financial mechanisms that target small farming communities and indigenous people.

LONDON, UK– The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate have embarked on a week long tour to Central America and the Caribbean – the trip that is being made at the behest of William’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, is intended to strengthen the U.K.’s ties with Commonwealth countries as the queen marks 70 years on the throne.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The United States government Wednesday launched the “Fact Check: Critical Thinking Journalism for Youth” program for budding journalists in Belize and Trinidad and Tobago.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, has declared that the monarchy will continue to support with “pride and respect” any decision made by the governments of The Bahamas, Jamaica and Belize, in the future.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The World Bank has approved a grant financing of US$102 million for the Emergency Resilient Agriculture for Food Security Project in Haiti.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has suggested that Africa-CARICOM Day should be celebrated on September 7th, in recognition of the first-ever Africa-Caribbean Summit aimed at forging stronger social and economic ties between the two global communities.

GENEVA, Switzerland – Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley wants to see the dismantling of the old global order and replaced with a new order that promotes world peace.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Antigua and Barbuda government has hinted at the possibility of extending an amnesty to allow undocumented foreign nationals to remain in the country legally.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica has suspended with immediate effect, applications from nationals of Russia and Belarus seeking citizenship under the island’s Citizenship by Investment Program (CBI).

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The World Food Program (WFP) Tuesday warned that at least 4.5 million Haitians are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity as it pointed to lower-than-expected humanitarian food assistance and continued fallout from the last August earthquake as key drivers.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have adopted a protocol which should create opportunities to further the principles, goals and objectives of the Community through enhanced cooperation, according to a statement issued by the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called for the Caribbean to remain as a zone of pace as she criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, insisting that Ukrainians “have a right to self-determination without the interference of others”