Caribbean & Central America - January 2021

Central America’s vulnerability to climate change made headlines due to damage wreaked by hurricanes Iota and Eta late last year  [SSR-20-12].... Read More

Central America’s vulnerability to climate change made headlines recently in the wake of damage wreaked by hurricanes Iota and Eta [SSR-20-12], which made landfall late last year.... Read More

Apparent efforts by El Salvador’s national police (PNC) to obstruct investigations into the response by the government led by President Nayib Bukele to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic are proving just the latest cause for concern regarding its independence as an institution.... Read More

On 3 December Honduras’s electoral commission (CNE) received registration details for parties taking part in pre-presidential primaries scheduled for 14 March, ahead of the November 2021 general election.... Read More

On 7 December the acting administrator of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Timothy Shea, arrived in Panama on an official visit, marking the first time a DEA administrator had visited the country.... Read More

Central America faces an uphill battle to recover from the impact of two powerful hurricanes in the midst of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central America fell 6.4% from 2018-2019, according to a recent report from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac), but has proven more resilient than FDI to the region as a whole, which fell 7.8% for the period.... Read More

With only just over a year before the next general election is due, The Bahamas’ Free National Movement (FNM) government, led by Prime Minister Hubert Minnis, is being assailed on all sides by misfortune (some self-imposed).... Read More

According to the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB’s) latest Quarterly Bulletin (December 2020), the Trinidad & Tobago economy will have contracted by 5.6% in 2020.... Read More

CUBA | Dual currency system ends.... Read More