BELMOPAN, Belize –Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will meet with their counterparts from the Central American Integration System (SICA) early next month, Prime Minister John Briceno has announced.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says that six months after a devastating earthquake in south-west Haiti caused the deaths of 2,200 people and injured 12,700 more, the international community is coming together with the Government of Haiti to raise up to US$2 billion for the long-term recovery and reconstruction of the French-speaking Caribbean country.

PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti – Haitian authorities Tuesday said that more than 2,500 homes had damaged as a result of floods caused by the passage of a cold front on Monday. There have been no reports of deaths.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Special Representative in Haiti, Helen La Lime, says that despite some signs of progress in ending the political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has worsened across Haiti since the assassination of its president last year, the situation there remains “fraught and highly polarized.”

BELMOPAN, Belize – Prime Minister John Briceno has led the nation in paying tribute to the country’s second prime minister, Sir Manuel Esquivel, who died on Thursday night. He was 81-years-old.

WASHINGTON D.C. - Jamaica's Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett has challenged the tourism industry to begin to look more seriously at ‘diasporic tourism’ as a means of accelerating investments in the country’s tourism product.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Antigua and Barbuda government has defended its policy of providing an amnesty to foreign nationals working and residing in the country, dismissing suggestions that it is merely a political ploy.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henry says no one will be allowed to meet in a hotel or abroad to decide in small committees who will be the next President or Prime Minister of Haiti.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados has been ranked as the highest Caribbean country in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Report 2021 released on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassadors based in the United States have held discussions with Ukrainian diplomats to the United States and the United Nations to review the situation in the European country, where Russia is posed for a military invasion.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is urging Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries and the rest of the world to put pressure on United States President Joseph Biden to exonerate Jamaican National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey for his “unjust, flawed and dubious” conviction for mail fraud almost a century ago.

OTTAWA, Canada –The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping Friday said it is “deeply concerned” by the deepening of the multi-dimensional crisis in Haiti, telling the international community that its efforts to assist Haiti should go beyond strengthening the police and the judiciary.