PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The United States government Wednesday launched the “Fact Check: Critical Thinking Journalism for Youth” program for budding journalists in Belize and Trinidad and Tobago.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has suggested that Africa-CARICOM Day should be celebrated on September 7th, in recognition of the first-ever Africa-Caribbean Summit aimed at forging stronger social and economic ties between the two global communities.
ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica has suspended with immediate effect, applications from nationals of Russia and Belarus seeking citizenship under the island’s Citizenship by Investment Program (CBI).
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called for the Caribbean to remain as a zone of pace as she criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, insisting that Ukrainians “have a right to self-determination without the interference of others”
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Thursday joined the global community in “strongly” condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and called for an “immediate and complete withdrawal” of military forces from the Eastern European country.
BELMOPAN, Belize –Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will meet with their counterparts from the Central American Integration System (SICA) early next month, Prime Minister John Briceno has announced.
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Special Representative in Haiti, Helen La Lime, says that despite some signs of progress in ending the political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has worsened across Haiti since the assassination of its president last year, the situation there remains “fraught and highly polarized.”
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Antigua and Barbuda government has defended its policy of providing an amnesty to foreign nationals working and residing in the country, dismissing suggestions that it is merely a political ploy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassadors based in the United States have held discussions with Ukrainian diplomats to the United States and the United Nations to review the situation in the European country, where Russia is posed for a military invasion.
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.
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.
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.
