PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Shattered by her husband’s death during the rising tide of gang violence in Haiti last year, Christiana and her six children fled 223 kilometres from their hometown to the city of Mirebalais, where her six-year-old daughter, Leineda, began treatment for malnutrition.

WASHINGTON, DC  – A new report by the World Bank says organised crime and violence have become a central obstacle to development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

UNITED NATIONS – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)  Secretary General, Dr Carla Barnett, Monday said that reparations for Haiti continue to be central to CARICOM’s reparations claim.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Trinidadian-born, Justice Margaret Price-Findlay, has been sworn in as acting Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) replacing St. Lucian-born jurist, Mario Michel, whose retirement goes into effect on Monday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados will host a symposium on Caribbean Arts and Heritage focusing on the regional implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI.) in relation to the Orange Economy.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Food and Agriculture (FAO) says it will over the coming months, continue its support to land bank initiatives across four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, with activities geared towards introducing, upgrading and training personnel on national land banks information systems.

WASHINGTON, DC - United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Tuesday held talks with the leaders of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and The Bahamas underscoring the urgent need for enhanced regional cooperation to combat drug and firearms trafficking and illegal migration.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations has raised concern over a growing number of vulnerable Haitians, particularly pregnant women, new mothers and infants, being deported from the neighboring Dominican Republic.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana –  Caribbean Community (CARICOM) labor ministers have agreed to a harmonized and sustained approach to matters related to labor that impact the free movement of people within the15-member regional integration grouping.

UNITED NATIONS - The Human Rights Service (HRS) of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), Wednesday said that during the first three months of this year, at least 1,617 people were killed and 580 injured as a result of violence involving gangs, self-defence groups, unorganized members of the population, and operations by the Haitian National Police (PNH).

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations special representative to Haiti, Maria Isabel Salvador, Monday warned that Haiti is facing the “point of no return” as gang violence escalates and the country struggles to respond.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Two United Nations organizations say at least 262 people were killed and 66 others injured during a three-month period in Haiti this year as criminal gangs “displayed extreme brutality, aiming to instill fear within the population”.