Barbados’ Minister of Tourism and International Transport Ian Gooding-Edghill delivered a clear message while sharing remarks at the island’s Junior Minister of Tourism and the inaugural Genealogy Competition awards ceremony last week: the nation’s youth must be educated about the importance of tourism so they can participate in the sector’s future success and sustainability.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.