LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 05 August 2019

On 3 August, Honduras’s President Juan Orlando Hernández denied having used drug trafficking money to fund his 2013 electoral campaign.... Read More

* IDB Invest, part of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB), and Banistmo, Panama’s largest bank and a subsidiary of Grupo Bancolombia, have announced the issuance of a five-year US$50m 'gender bond', aimed exclusively at expanding access to financing for small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) led by women.... Read More

In 2013, the United Nations (UN) designated 30 July as the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, with the aim of raising awareness of the situation of the victims of human trafficking, and of the promotion and protection of their rights.... Read More

In early June President Daniel Ortega’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN)-controlled 92-member unicameral legislature approved an amnesty law for crimes committed in the context of the violence stemming from the government crackdown on its opponents which began in April 2018 which has left over 500 people dead.... Read More

It is over a year since Trinidad & Tobago passed the Anti Gang Act 2018, but there appears to have been very little progress in controlling the depredations of the gangs despite Police Commissioner Gary Griffith declaring that the legislation “is proving to be very effective in terms of providing a deterrent to gangs”.... Read More

On 7 July, Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that a state of public emergency had been declared in the St Andrew South Police Division, which includes parts of Kingston, until 21 July.... Read More