ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he does not favor any military presence in Haiti as the French-speaking member country continues its investigation into the assassination of its President Jovenel Moise last Wednesday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The role played by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in shaping and sustaining the region has been lauded with the unveiling of six wax figures of eminent Caribbean people on Saturday, during a special ceremony to mark CARICOM Day, at the Caribbean Wax Museum here.

LONDON, UK – Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland on Thursday urged the international community to make crucial changes to how it delivers finance to developing nations, including those in the Caribbean, proposing a new system that moves beyond the use of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the sole criteria for receiving certain types of support.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that nearly a third of all children in Haiti – numbering around 1.5 million – are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising violence, insufficient access to clean water, health and nutrition.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Carissa Etienne, says 15 member countries will receive approximately six million of the 25 million doses of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines that the United States has earmarked for deployment to help ease the global shortage.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr.  Carissa Etienne says more than 1.8 million people have died from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the Americas while the region has suffered an “unprecedented rise in poverty.

NEW YORK, New York – United Nations Secretary General António Guterres as well as Haitian American legislators have condemned the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse at his private residence on the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country early on Wednesday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, says while Latin America and the Caribbean  (LAC) is home to just eight per cent of the global population, about 30 per cent of all reported deaths due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are concentrated in the region.

UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for debt relief extension for Caribbean and other middle-income countries, saying that innovative measures to address debt are required to help the world’s more than 100 middle-income countries expand their economies and exit the COVID-19 pandemic. 

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will meet later on Wednesday following the assassination of Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moise, CARICOM chairman Gaston Browne has said.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) Executive Committee has ended its 168th Session with draft resolutions on key issues such as resilient health systems, equitable access to the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, and a comprehensive approach for addressing health threats at the human-animal-environment health interface, also known as “One Health.”

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Wednesday warned that the Caribbean countries cannot open up their economies without having access to vaccines.