Cuba has a new five-star hotel which opened its doors this week in the northern group of keys of Villa Clara, in the island’s centre. The Grand Sirenis Cayo Santa María is the new luxury facility of Cuba’s tourist destination, one of the island’s most in demand today.
Honduras is addressing the serious issue of malnutrition in children. Tomalá is in Lempira in western Honduras, which has the highest rate of chronic child malnutrition in the country and well above average for Latin America.
The Philippines is being positioned as a shopping destination for Chinese tourists as the Tourism Promotions Board recently held a travel sale event in China.
Canada’s logging industry has a larger and more damaging impact on forest health than previously thought, a new report has found, casting doubt on the sustainability of forestry management in the country.
Donald Trump was in the UK for a three-day visit this week and the biggest fear for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was that the US president would ruin his chances of staying in power ahead of next week’s UK general election.
Venezuelans have embraced Black Friday for the first time. Shoppers flocked to shopping centres in Caracas, the capital, to take advantage of the first Black Friday discounts in recent memory, as socialist President Nicolas Maduro's government loosens controls in the face of an economic crisis.
A Honduran court handed down jail terms of up to five decades for seven men convicted of the 2016 murder of indigenous activist Berta Caceres, who led a battle against a major dam on the ancestral lands of her Lenca tribe.
Cuba’s tourism figures are still robust, despite sanctions by the US as the vital Christmas season approaches.
Typhoon Kammuri swept through the Philippines on Tuesday, ripping rooftops from houses, knocking down power lines and leaving over half a million people huddled in evacuation centres, waiting for the storm to pass. At least one person was killed.
Canada’s provincial and territorial government leaders showed a united front on Monday in demanding more money from the federal government for healthcare and for provinces facing economic hard times.