By: Insight Crime February 20, 2024 A series of large-scale drug seizures at clandestine laboratories in a Venezuelan border state suggest the ELN and ex-FARC mafia are expanding cocaine processing…
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Bonaire Human Rights Organization Hosts Successful 1st Annual Valentine’s Charity Dinner.
February 20, 2024 The Bonaire Human Rights Organization (BHRO) hosted a heartwarming Valentine’s charity dinner on February 14th, bringing together supporters and advocates for an evening of philanthropy and solidarity.…
Celebrating Chinese New Year in Beautiful Countryside — Grenada Overseas Students Visit Yangjiashanli
February 20, 2024 During the Spring Festival, eight overseas students from Grenada, the southernmost island country in the Windward Islands of the East Caribbean, visited the Yangjiashanli Rural Revitalization Demonstration Area in Shandong’s Qingdao to experience…
Venezuela readies military while Guyana signs new oil contracts
By: Staff Writer February 16, 2024 Venezuela has been building up military personnel at the border with Guyana amid the ongoing dispute over the Essequibo region. The Venezuelan government also…
ECLAC Launched Digital Development Observatory to Contribute to Latin America and the Caribbean’s Digital Transformation
February 16, 2024 The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) unveiled today its Digital Development Observatory (DDO), a new instrument that aims to produce, gather and analyze…
March FAO forum must deal frontally with Caribbean food security initiative
February 16, 2024 With the March 18-21 staging in Guyana of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) 38th Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LARC38), the…
Tobago oil spill ship may be from Venezuela-Crew VANISHED!
By: Staff Writer February 13, 2024 Investigators and search teams are combing the site where the mystery ship that spilled hundreds of gallons of oil off of the coast of…
Bukele officially confirmed President in El Salvador
By: Staff Writer February 13, 2024 Nayib Bukele has officially been confirmed as President of El Salvador for his second consecutive term riding off of his popular gang crackdown. Some…
Revision of Bonaire’s WOLBES and FINBES – another Dutch colonial reform supported by Bonaire island council?
February 13, 2024 Because of BHRO – Bonaire Life Matters International awareness campaign, spanning from February 2022 to October 2023, has yielded significant impacts and results. These efforts have compelled…
Ricardo Méndez Ruiz and the Art of Lawfare in Guatemala
By: Insight Crime February 9, 2024 It was less than 12 hours after the new president of Guatemala had been sworn in that Ricardo Méndez Ruiz fired off his first challenge to the incoming…
ECTEL Appoints a New Managing Director
February 9, 2024 Wednesday, February 7, 2024 — Mr. David A. Cox is the newly appointed Managing Director of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL). His appointment took place on…