GEORGETOWN, Guyana –St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves said Tuesday his island is buying ready-made houses from Guyana, more than two years after the La Soufrière volcano in his homeland erupted in 2021, wreaking havoc across the country.

Barbados’ Minister of Tourism and International Transport Ian Gooding-Edghill delivered a clear message while sharing remarks at the island’s Junior Minister of Tourism and the inaugural Genealogy Competition awards ceremony last week: the nation’s youth must be educated about the importance of tourism so they can participate in the sector’s future success and sustainability.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Cuban and CARICOM leaders have ended their one-day summit here on Tuesday with Havana saying that the deliberations had “exceeded our expectations”.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Biden administration has extended interview waivers for certain nonimmigrant visa applicants.

SANTIAGO, Chile –Latin American and Caribbean countries have called for “driving action and advancing” towards achievement of the ageing agenda on a regional and global level.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The eighth CARICOM–Cuba summit got underway here on Tuesday questioning the continued trade and economic embargo against Havana as well as a promise to maintain and strengthen of the ongoing relationship that has guided the parties for the last 50 years.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has commended the Dutch government for acknowledging the role it played in slavery but called for reparations negotiations between The Netherlands and the Caribbean.

GENEVA – Delegates attending the inaugural United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent here have supported the CARICOM 10-point reparation plan, calling for its adoption globally.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian gangsters have seized at least three police vehicles, including 2 armoured ones, amid a wave of gang violence that does not even spare the Caribbean country’s police officers, counting dozens of victims in their ranks.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Dec 20, CMC – CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Carla Barnett says “strenuous efforts” have been made this year to ensure that the regional integration process improves the lives of the people of the 15-member grouping.

LUANDA, Angola — The Secretary General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACPS), Georges Chikoti, says the 79-member grouping remains relevant 47 years after its founding and even as South African, one of the largest contributors to its budget, left the bloc in September.

SANTIAGO, Chile – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says, in 2021, at least 4,473 women were victims of femicide, also known as feminicide, in 29 countries and territories of the region.