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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – President of the Senate, Joseph Lambert, has been treated at a hospital in the capital, Port au Prince, as he escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley Friday named the President of the Senate, Christine Kangaloo as the government’s nominee to replace Paula Mae Weekes as the seventh head of state of the oil-rich twin island republic.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Executive Director of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CAPHA), Dr. Joy St. John, Thursday said that several COVID-19 variants that are causing surges in the United States, the United Kingdom and China have “been circulating in the Caribbean since last year”.

GENEVA – The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the United States Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on Friday expressed deep concern about plans by the Biden administration in the United States to limit migrants from the Caribbean.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana has become the first CARICOM country to impose new entry requirements for travelers coming from China where there has been an upsurge in the number of COVID-19 cases.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The Government of Japan has provided Haiti emergency aid of US$3-million in response to its ongoing cholera outbreak.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says the value of goods exports from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) increased at an estimated rate of 18.8 percent last year.