UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says that six months after a devastating earthquake in south-west Haiti caused the deaths of 2,200 people and injured 12,700 more, the international community is coming together with the Government of Haiti to raise up to US$2 billion for the long-term recovery and reconstruction of the French-speaking Caribbean country.
BELMOPAN, Belize – Prime Minister John Briceno has led the nation in paying tribute to the country’s second prime minister, Sir Manuel Esquivel, who died on Thursday night. He was 81-years-old.
WASHINGTON D.C. - Jamaica's Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett has challenged the tourism industry to begin to look more seriously at ‘diasporic tourism’ as a means of accelerating investments in the country’s tourism product.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana said Monday it had received several bids from several companies seeking to conduct the feasibility study and preliminary design for the construction of the Corentyne River Bridge linking the country with Suriname.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henry says no one will be allowed to meet in a hotel or abroad to decide in small committees who will be the next President or Prime Minister of Haiti.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados has been ranked as the highest Caribbean country in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Report 2021 released on Tuesday.
LONDON, UK – CS Global Partners, a London-based government advisory and marketing firm, has ranked the island of Dominica as one of the safest places in the Caribbean and Latin America.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is urging Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries and the rest of the world to put pressure on United States President Joseph Biden to exonerate Jamaican National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey for his “unjust, flawed and dubious” conviction for mail fraud almost a century ago.
OTTAWA, Canada –The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping Friday said it is “deeply concerned” by the deepening of the multi-dimensional crisis in Haiti, telling the international community that its efforts to assist Haiti should go beyond strengthening the police and the judiciary.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti is marking the 12th anniversary of the powerful earthquake that struck the island on January 12, 2010, killing more than 250, 000 people and injuring an estimated 300,000 others, with the national flag being flown at half-mast.
PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti – Haitian authorities Tuesday said that more than 2,500 homes had damaged as a result of floods caused by the passage of a cold front on Monday. There have been no reports of deaths.
NEW YORK, NY - The vast majority of Black immigrants in the US now are from the Caribbean, at least as of 2019.
NASSAU, Bahamas –Prime Minister Philip Davis Friday instructed that the Bahamian flag be flown at half-mast here and at the country’s embassies across the globe, as he led Bahamians in paying respect to the iconic actor, activist, director and ambassador, Sir Sidney Poitier, who died at the age of 94.
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