Caribbean & Central America - July 2024

In late May Honduras’ government declared a climate emergency, aimed at defending protected areas and water production zones.... Read More

In late May Honduras’s leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) government led by President Xiomara Castro issued a resolution declaring a state of climate emergency, with the aim of defending protected areas and water production zones.... Read More

Days before President Nayib Bukele took office on 1 June for a second five-year term, the national assembly, in which his personalist party Nuevas Ideas (NI) has 54 of the 60 seats, voted to shelve a legislative bill on transitional justice and reparations for victims of the 1980-1992 civil war.... Read More

The recent decision to place retired General Humberto Ortega, the 77-year-old younger brother of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega, under house arrest is just the latest example of the authoritarian leader’s apparent unwillingness to tolerate any dissent.... Read More

At the end of May, Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo handed the keys to 300 new homes to over 1,300 indigenous Guna people who are being resettled from Gardí Sugdub, an island in the San Blas Archipelago off the country’s northern coast, to the newly built settlement of Nuevo Cartí in the Guna Yala comarca (indigenous administrative region), on the mainland.... Read More

Poor infrastructure is affecting the movement of goods and having a knock-on effect on economic activity, and President Bernardo Arévalo has launched a national foreign investment strategy to address longstanding issues.... Read More

A report published on 7 June by the economic sciences research institute (IICE) at the Universidad de Costa Rica found that in February, 20.61% of the Costa Rican population were living in poverty, a 2.4 percentage point decrease compared to February last year, but inequality was almost unchanged over the period.... Read More

The multinational security support (MSS) mission for Haiti was first authorised by the United Nations (UN) Security Council (UNSC) on 2 October 2023 (resolution 2699) with a view to deployment in February 2024, but the first contingent of 400 Kenyan police officers did not finally arrive in Haiti until 25 June.... Read More

Curaçao-based airline JetAir was declared bankrupt on 18 June with all flights grounded and trustees appointed to decide whether to approve a financial recovery plan or opt instead for permanent closure.... Read More

The Fourth International Conference of Small Island Developing States (known as SIDS4) was held in Antigua & Barbuda on 26-30 May.... Read More

Fiscal adjustment and debt reduction should be top priorities for the government, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by David Moore, which visited Antigua & Barbuda on 17-21 June.... Read More

*** EXPANDING AFRICA-CARIBBEAN RELATIONS.... Read More

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Tourism up.... Read More