PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad– The United States Embassy here along with the government of Trinidad and Tobago has launched a second phase of the Strengthening Evidence-Based Decision Making for Citizen Security in the Caribbean (CariSECURE) 2.0.
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ONTARIO, Canada – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has held talks with Suriname’s President, Chandrikapersad Santokhi, who is also the chairman of CARICOM on the political and socio-economic situation in Haiti.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Chairman of the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSOLE), Dr. Horace Chang, says the region must continue to share information and intelligence particularly as it relates to firearms trafficking, cyber security, trafficking in persons and maritime security.
UNITED NATIONS – The Prime Minister of Belize Prime John A. Briceño says that global economic realities are exacerbating “an already acute social situation” in his country.
UNITED NATIONS – Two United Nations agencies have warned of “catastrophic” hunger being recorded in Haiti for the first time.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana–The United States says it supporters a “peaceful solution” to the border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela reiterating also that it recognizes the land boundary between the two countries in keeping with the 123-year old 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award.
NEW YORK, New York – Addressing world leaders gathered for the first fully in-person high-level debate of the UN General Assembly in three years, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the true essence of the unjust and unsustainable prevailing international order.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados –CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Carla Barnett says it is important that the Caribbean have opportunities to access the European Sustainable Fund, within which regional platforms, including a Caribbean platform, are to be established.
CUENCA, Ecuador – Antigua and Barbuda Minister of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development and Blue Economy, Dean Jonas, has called on Latin America and the Caribbean to collaborate more to help the region deal with the access to sustainable financing.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The CARICOM regional grouping has said it is “gravely concerned” by the continuing deterioration of the security situation and the social circumstances in Haiti.
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres is urging the international community, including the UN Security Council, to consider “as of matter of urgency” the request by the Haitian government for the immediate deployment of an international specialized armed force in the French-speaking Caribbean country.
BRUSSELS – The European Commission (EC) has allocated Euro 600 million (One Euro=USS1.29 cents) to finance immediate humanitarian food aid, food production and resilience of food systems in the most vulnerable countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP).
UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres on Friday said he is “deeply concerned” at the current situation in Haiti where civil unrest has brought the country to a standstill.
