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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, says armed violence has reached “unimaginable and intolerable levels” in Haiti and that the surge in violence is being fueled by heavily armed gangs in Port-au-Prince.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – With an increase in reports of daily kidnappings across the country, truck drivers from the neighboring Dominican Republic have decided not to enter Haiti deliver goods and produce.

HAVANA, Cuba – The National Institute of Social Security (INASS) is carrying out a centralized process of granting pensions, in a quick way, for all the affected workers and relatives of the victims of the accident at the Saratoga hotel, without distinction of pension rights.

BELMOPAN, Belize – The construction phase of major improvement to the essential arterial route that links Belize City to the Mexican border has officially gotten off the ground.