Caribbean & Central America - August 2019

With scrutiny increasing on Latin America’s ability to mitigate and overcome the effects of climate change – and nowhere more so than in Central America’s ‘Dry Corridor’ – the environmental sustainability of key economic sectors has emerged as a vital challenge.... 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

In February Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado announced plans to make the country emissions free by 2050.... Read More

Amid growing scrutiny of Latin America’s ability to mitigate the effects of climate change, Central America’s ‘Dry Corridor’ is an area where this challenge is particularly acute.... Read More

The passing of a no-confidence motion, on 21 December 2018, in the A partnership for National Unity-Alliance for Change (Apnu-AFC) coalition government led by President David Granger should have triggered an election within three months.... Read More

The leaders of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) met in St Lucia from 3-5 July for their 40th heads of government conference.... 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

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