2020

As countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) intensify safety measures in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe, CARICOM Ministers of Agriculture meet 19 March 2020 to chart a food and nutrition security and availability…
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WASHINGTON, Mar 18, CMC – The World Bank has approved an increased US$14 billion package of fast-track financing to assist Caribbean and other countries as well as companies in their efforts to prevent, detect and respond to the rapid…
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(Barbados Today) Many Caribbean economies find themselves already in a difficult situation with low growth, high debt, fiscal deficits, and low domestic private sector investments. Because of the current developments around the spread of…
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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) deeply regrets that it has been forced to withdraw the independent High Level Team it fielded on Saturday, 14 March 2020, to supervise the re-counting of the ballots in Region 4 of the General and Regional…
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(Newsweek) The coronavirus pandemic has reached at least 155 countries, with more than 185,000 known cases and 7,300 related deaths. Around 80,200 have recovered, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. The total…
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