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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 07 May 2020

From LatinNews Daily
On 6 May Guyana’s electoral commission (Gecom) began a recount of the votes cast in the 2 March general election.... Read More
* The Bahamas’ attorney general Carl Bethel has said that the government “regrets the apparent decision of the EU [European Union] Commission to signal an intention to add The Bahamas to a Blacklist which the EU Parliament mandates that the Commission maintain”.... Read More
From Security & Strategic Review
At the end of March, the international anti-corruption NGO Transparency International (TI) warned about “serious corruption risks” in Latin America’s emergency response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
An increase in the discovery of drug laboratories in Honduras and a high-profile arrest in the US earlier this year have added overwhelming evidence to fears that the country has now graduated from its “experimental phase” in cocaine production to become a full-blown producer.... Read More
Local and international human rights groups have denounced a “surge in repression” by the government led by Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega in April.... Read More
Suriname is due to go to the polls on 25 May, and the opposition fears that President Desi Bouterse is taking unfair advantage of the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis to boost his chances and those of his National Democratic Party (NDP).... Read More
On 17 April, on the grounds that “the Covid-19 virus continues to pose a significant threat of a natural calamity”, Prime Minister Timothy Harris successfully introduced a resolution to extend the national State of Emergency to six months, but only after reducing the time period from the originally proposed 12 months.... Read More
Atlantic basin seasonal forecasts warn that warm sea surface temperatures and atypical atmospheric conditions will likely give rise to above-average hurricane activity in the Caribbean in 2020.... Read More

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