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.

SANTIAGO, Chile – A new report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says the region is most affected demographically by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

BALI, Indonesia – CARICOM has called on the world’s most developed economies to help establish an action plan on food and energy security, agricultural innovation and climate action.

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.

Geneva - The UN’s main human rights agency is calling on the Dominican Republic to halt the deportations of Haitian migrants at a time of unrest in their country.

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”.

DJERBA, Tunisia – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is returning to Canada on Monday after attending the summit of French-speaking countries where he announced that Ottawa is providing CAD $16.5 million (One CAD$=US$0.74 cents) to help stabilize Haiti.

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt – Britain’s Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly is calling for tangible action to deliver on the commitments made at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) held in Glasgow last year as well as support developing economies to tackle the impacts of climate change.