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Haiti’s Joumou Soup Added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists

Traditional Haitian pumpkin soup, Joumou soup

PARIS, France – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added Haiti’s Joumou soup among 43 elements inscribed on the agency’s intangible cultural heritage lists.

Barbadian Maria Marshall Named Youngest UNICEF Youth Advocate in the Eastern Caribbean

Maria Marshall (Photo credit: UNICEF/Eastern Caribbean)

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has named 12-year-old environmental advocate, Maria Marshall, as its youngest Youth Advocate in the Eastern Caribbean.

Mawozo Gang Releases Remaining 12 Missionaries Held Hostage in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The remaining 12 missionaries held hostage since October have been released exactly two months after they were kidnapped, Christian Aid Ministries, the US-based religious group the abductees worked with, reported on Thursday.

PAHO Defends Sinopharm Vaccine Following Widely Criticized Sunday Express Article in Trinidad

Packaging for Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine vials. (CNA photo)

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad –The Pan American Health Organization has said that the Chinese-made Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by its Emergency Use Listing (EUL) after “rigorous evaluation by independent experts” as it sought to re-assure the public about the efficacy of the vaccine.

Belize Mourns the Death of Education and Cultural Icon Myrna Manzanares

BELMOPAN, Belize – The Belize government is leading the country in mourning the death of cultural icon and Creole culture advocate, Myrna Manzanares, who died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) one week after suffering a stroke. She was 75 years old.

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