March 24, 2023 The Secretariat for Strengthening Democracy of the Organization of American States (OAS) expresses its concern about the development of the candidacy registration process that is being carried…
Category: NEWS AND POLITICS
TT GETS NEW PRESIDENT
By Kimberly Ramkhalawan March 21, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Lucky Number seven, was how she herself, Her Excellency, Christine Kangaloo, described becoming the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’s newest head…
Coca May Have Permanently Taken Root in Central America
By: Insight Crime March 21, 2023 Honduran and Guatemalan authorities are eradicating record amounts of coca plants, further evidence of the coca’s expansion beyond the traditional coca-growing region of the…
Antigua and Barbuda and Serbia abolish visa requirements
March 17, 2023 The Antigua and Barbuda passport was strengthened internationally on Friday, March 10 when Ambassadors of Antigua and Barbuda and the Republic of Serbia signed an agreement in…
EU LAUNCHES CARIBBEAN DIGITAL ALLIANCE
By: Kimberly Ramkhalawan March 14, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Some €145m from Team Europe, including €50m from the EU budget has been put forward to boost digital cooperation between the European Union-Latin…
Signs of the Sun Volume II Poetry Book launch
The Signs of the Sun Vol II poetry book from the Caribbean Magazine Plus (CMP) Poetry Contest, 2022 is now available on Amazon as an e-book only. The book is…
CCJ DISMISSES PARTIAL DISCRIMINATION CASE AGAINST CL FINANCIAL
By: Kimberly Ramkhalawan March 10, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com The Caribbean Court of Justice has partially dismissed the case that the Trinidad and Tobago government discriminated against CL Financial policy holders outside…
Panama Achieves 50% Ocean Protection with Newly Expanded Banco Volcán Marine Protected Area
March 10, 2023 On March 2, 2023, during the opening ceremony of the 2023 Our Ocean Conference, Laurentino Cortizo, President of Panama, and Milciades Concepción, Minister of Environment, signed the decree to substantially…
UN warns of “further destabilisation” in Haiti
By: Staff Writer March 7, 2023 The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in a new report warns that Haiti is at risk of “further destabilisation” due to…
Brutal but Futile: Venezuela’s Anti-Gang ‘Mega-Operations’
By: Insight Crime March 7, 2023 For three days in July 2021, the Caracas neighborhood of Cota 905 became an urban warzone. Just blocks away from Venezuela’s Miraflores presidential palace,…
Central America: Lessons Learned
By: Nic Wirtz March 7, 2023 Central America forms new, integrated markets to fuel the region’s bounce-back. Central American institutions entered 2023 determined to learn from the difficult pandemic period—taking…
STATEMENT BY HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON HAITI
March 7, 2023 Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have resolved to continue efforts to encourage dialogue among Haitian stakeholders and to support efforts at finding solutions to…