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Caribbean & Central America - January 2024
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*** SOME PROGRESS AT COP28. The 39-member Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), of which 16 are Caribbean states, was founded in 1990 and has been advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damages Fund since the inception of the Conference of the Parties (COP) in 1995. The latest COP gathering, COP28, did at last produce such a fund, but it was an achievement that AOSIS chairman Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster described as “a relief” rather than a win.
- Introduction
- COSTA RICA: Another record year of homicides
- HONDURAS: Questioning the impact of Castro's state of exception
- PANAMA: Environmentalists hail ruling against key mine
- GUATEMALA: New supreme court elected after long delay
- GUATEMALA: Regional court ruling will affect outlook for miners
- EL SALVADOR: Economic outlook improving as Bukele poised for re-election
- HAITI: A country seemingly without hope
- CUBA: Government rejects claims of economic “neoliberalism”
- JAMAICA: Debt burden slashed
- REGION: New focus on plastic waste
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- Economic Highlights