PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands – The board of governors of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) began its 52^md annual meeting here on Wednesday with an indication that the region’s premier financial institution intends to advance food and nutrition security, energy and water security as its “big initiatives for 2022” and beyond.

Los Angeles California – Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks has reiterated a call for access to concessional financing for middle income countries, if Jamaica and other developing countries to create an enabling environment for investment.

WASHINGTON DC - Chairman of the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) and Jamaica’s National Security Minister Dr. Horace Chang, says the illicit trafficking of illegal firearms is a significant challenge for the region.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Trade officials Monday dismissed a video circulating on social media warning Dominicans to brace themselves for a scarcity of essential goods and services as a result of rising prices for petroleum products.

The annual Trelawny Picnic in New York, returning after a two-year COVID-enforced absence, drew more than three thousand Trelawnyites from across the United States, Canada, and Jamaica to the Rockland County State Park in Nyack, upstate New York, this past Sunday, May 29.

NEW YORK, New York – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been listed among the 100 most influential people in the 2022 TIME 100, the annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

LOS ANGELES, CA  – Four CARICOM leaders on Friday joined their counterparts from Latin America, the United States and Canada in signing the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection. 

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago is observing the 177^th anniversary of the arrival of indentured laborers from India, with a public holiday on Monday amid calls for a recommitment to unity among the races and religions in the oil-rich twin island Republic.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has been acknowledged for best practices in facilitating a creative ecosystem by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in its ‘Reshaping Policies for Creativity’ global report.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Canadian Government have announced multi-million-dollar aid for Latin America and the Caribbean. 

GENEVA – The United Nations has called on Caribbean governments to do more to help Haitian fleeing insecurity by sea, saying that the numbers of desperate people resorting to risky sea crossings has sharply increased.

LONDON – Health Ministers from the Commonwealth concluded their annual meeting on Thursday united on a post-COVID-19 health agenda that includes collaboration on several key issues including vaccine equity, increasing investment in health to strengthen the resilience of health systems, and advancing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals.