UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, Thursday welcomed the installation of the new government in Haiti, noting most importantly that it includes women in key Cabinet positions.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a regional agricultural project that is aimed at promoting and encouraging the use of climate-smart technologies in viable agricultural value chains

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says “all hands are on deck” as  leaders from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) converge on Antigua and Barbuda to deliver a new plan of action to build resilience on the road to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says the youth in Haiti remain optimistic amid worsening instability and that the crisis in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country has left children among the most vulnerable to extreme violence, malnutrition, poverty, and collapsing social systems.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – United Nations humanitarians say they have finally been able to deliver truckloads of food to highly vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, after gang violence prevented access for more than two months.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -Barbados will host a pioneering global Small Island Developing States (SIDS) hub that is expected to pay closer attention to the peculiar issues and challenges facing SIDS.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Tuesday described the ongoing situation in Haiti as “volatile” resulting in thousands of people being displaced across the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew says small island developing states (SIDS) need to build resilience that will protect them from the external shocks which threaten to  push SIDS to the precipice of collapse.

UNITED NATIONS – The establishment of a Kenya-led multinational security support (MSS) mission for Haiti is moving closer as Haiti continues to face a crisis of violence and insecurity caused by entrenched criminal gang activity.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has launched an appeal to help Haiti deal with the upcoming weather situation over the next few months, as the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country struggles to deal with the gang violence that has pushed thousands of children and their families into poverty.

ROSEAU, Dominica - Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers have renewed calls for the United States to remove Cuba on its list of states that are “not cooperating fully” in the fight against terrorism.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission says efforts are being made to establish a World Heritage Sites Network in the sub-regional grouping.