Britain is providing £4.5 million (KY$4.9m) to the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Special Development Fund to support countries in the region with their coronavirus COVID-19 recovery.
Venezuela’s medical practitioners are literally putting their lives at risk because the impoverished health care system offers little or no personal protection equipment.
Deadly violence within female prisons in Honduras is rare but a spate of recent murders in a prison is a warning that underestimating the role of women within gang and prison structures could be costly.
The Philippine president has pardoned a US Marine in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment for the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that has sparked anger in the former American colony.
Cuba has received its first planeload of tourists to arrive on the Communist-run island in months as it struggles toward a post-pandemic new normalcy.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing an ambitious and costly new plan to revive both Canada and his political future following months of controversy.
Footballer Marcus Rashford has formed a taskforce with some of the UK's biggest food brands to try to help reduce child food poverty.
Cuban government policy is relying even more on the US dollar back while the CUC takes a dive. Cuba has three currencies circulating, but most Cubans receive salaries in only one, the regular peso CUP.
Prisons in Honduras have seen an alarming rise in killings in the past year. Since November 2019, at least 55 killings have taken place inside Honduras’ prison system, according to InSight Crime’s count of murders by inmates reported in local media.
The Venezuela government has pardoned more than 50 opposition politicians, including 20 legislators who had been accused of conspiring against President Nicolas Maduro, as the country heads toward parliamentary elections scheduled for December.