BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, - Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, will conclude his year-long stint as Chair of the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), on Friday, July 23. 

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will “within weeks” formally open a diplomatic mission in Kenya as the 15-member regional grouping seeks to deepen its relations with Africa.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Government of Barbados has called on the Biden administration in the United States end the embargo imposed on the island of Cuba, stating that bring it to an end is the “morally right” thing to do.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa F. Etienne Wednesday said that new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases spiked in Central America, the Caribbean and some South America countries last week.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he does not favor any military presence in Haiti as the French-speaking member country continues its investigation into the assassination of its President Jovenel Moise last Wednesday.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that nearly a third of all children in Haiti – numbering around 1.5 million – are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising violence, insufficient access to clean water, health and nutrition.

NEW YORK, New York – United Nations Secretary General António Guterres as well as Haitian American legislators have condemned the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse at his private residence on the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country early on Wednesday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will meet later on Wednesday following the assassination of Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moise, CARICOM chairman Gaston Browne has said.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The role played by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in shaping and sustaining the region has been lauded with the unveiling of six wax figures of eminent Caribbean people on Saturday, during a special ceremony to mark CARICOM Day, at the Caribbean Wax Museum here.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Carissa Etienne, says 15 member countries will receive approximately six million of the 25 million doses of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines that the United States has earmarked for deployment to help ease the global shortage.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, says while Latin America and the Caribbean  (LAC) is home to just eight per cent of the global population, about 30 per cent of all reported deaths due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are concentrated in the region.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) Executive Committee has ended its 168th Session with draft resolutions on key issues such as resilient health systems, equitable access to the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, and a comprehensive approach for addressing health threats at the human-animal-environment health interface, also known as “One Health.”