BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Monday said it is providing a seven million US dollar grant to Haiti to launch a transformative agricultural project in the country.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana government says it is monitoring the situation at the border with Venezuela as it expects a large number of migrants to come from the neighboring South American country in the coming days.

GENEVA - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, Tuesday reiterated a call for countries not to repatriate Haitians to their homeland as the UN Human Rights Office reported that at least 5,601 people were killed in Haiti last year.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says the  humanitarian crisis in Haiti has reached a critical point, with one in eight children now internally displaced due to escalating violence fueled by armed groups who continue to control most of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says projects from four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have been selected to harness the potential of sargassum as a resource for various industries.

UNITED NATIONS - St. Kitts-Nevis has assumed the chairmanship of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC) saying it  exemplifies the ambition of the twin-island Federation to contribute meaningfully to the work of the United Nations.

BELMOPAN, Belize – The Belize government is considering whether or not it will deploy more soldiers to Haiti after indicating that “there are a few outstanding issues that have to be resolved”  before troops could be sent to there.

GENEVA, Switzerland – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Tuesday said that more than a million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, where criminal gangs have been seeking to destabilize the country.

SANTO DOMINIGO, Dominican Republic – The Directorate General of Migration (DGM) says it has returned more than a quarter million Haitians to their country last year insisting that their removals were carried out in compliance with human rights and international agreements to which the country is a signatory.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – The Prime Minister of Barbados,  Mia Mottley, has emphasized the critical role of culture in regional development during her keynote address Wednesday evening at the 16th annual ‘Self Reliance Trefossa Lecture’ here. 

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The Government of Barbados has suspended plans to send troops to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state Haiti.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Caribbean Community (CARICCOM) chair, Mia Mottley Wednesday said that the 15-member regional integration movement begins 2025 at the crossroads of immense challenges and extraordinary opportunities against a backdrop of global uncertainty.