Venezuela abandons US dollar in favour of euro for international transactions
CARACAS - Venezuela is abandoning the US dollar and all future transactions on the Venezuelan exchange market will be made in euros, Tareck El Aissami, the country’s vice president for economy, has announced. Financial sanctions imposed by Washington on Venezuela, “block the possibility of continuing to trade using the US dollar on the Venezuelan More...
Caribbean Ministers approve plan to prepare for the health impact of climate change on Small Island Developing States
Third Global Conference on Health and Climate: Special Focus on Small Island Developing States, concluded on Wednesday with an Action Plan to be implemented in the Region WASHINGTON - Ministers from across the More...
Cft chairman Raymond Gradus: “Bonaire is not adequately implementing legislation, threat of escalation ensues”
KRALENDIJK - The Board of financial supervision Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Cft) has called on both the Executive Council and the Island Council to demonstrate more decisiveness. The Cft has been stating for More...
Caribbean Border Interagency Group authorities seize $30 million in cocaine off Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN - US Coast Guard and Caribbean Border Interagency Group (CBIG) law enforcement authorities seized 2,324 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $30 million, following the interdiction of a go-fast vessel More...
Caribbean Ministers of Health meet to approve plan on health system resilience in the face of climate change
Third Global Conference on Health and Climate convenes health authorities and experts from PAHO/WHO to develop an Action Plan for Small Island Developing States in the Region WASHINGTON - Ministers from across More...
IPCC releases 1.5 Report with dire warning for the Caribbean and the world
BELMOPAN - The highly anticipated 1.5 degrees’ report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been released, and the news is dire. But while scientists “sound the alarm about complacency”, More...
UN Refugee Agency ramps up support for Venezuelans
CARACAS - With the help of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), Colombia is showing “extraordinary solidarity” towards Venezuelans displaced amid the country’s on-going economic and political crisis, said agency More...
SMMC hosts World Bank project launch
PHILIPSBURG - SMMC is hosting a “Project Launch” with a series of workshops which are conducted by World Bank representatives from October 15– 17. The workshops are aimed at providing guidance in the execution More...
Venezuela prisons ‘beyond monstrous’, warns UN
CARACAS - Conditions in Venezuela’s prisons are “beyond monstrous”, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said yesterday, before calling for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of a leading More...
Death toll from Haiti earthquake rises
PORT-AU-PRINCE - The death toll from the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck northwest Haiti over the weekend has risen to 17. And officials say the number of injured is now around 333. And as the French-speaking More...
