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…
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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…
US says nearly 200k rounds of ammo seized in Caribbean last year
By: Staff Writer March 3, 2023 The US State Department in a recently released fact sheet said that thousands of rounds of ammunition was seized in the Caribbean through various…
World Bank: Caribbean children lost nearly 2 years of learning in COVID years.
By: Staff Writer March 2, 2023 A new World Bank report, “Collapse and Recovery: How COVID-19 Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It,” details how children in Latin America and the…
Peace Leaders in Putumayo, Colombia Bet Their Lives on Coca Crop Substitution
By: Alicia Florez, Insight Crime March 2023 Community leaders in Colombia’s Putumayo department have historically supported coca substitution programs as part of peace processes aimed at resolving the country’s long-running…
Descendants of slave owners pay up to Grenada!
By Kimberly Ramkhalawan February 28, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Grenada saw its first reparations payment and apology on Monday from a BBC Journalist based in New York, Laura Trevelyan, who traced her…