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Caribbean news from the region which “freedom reigns for the In Guyana, an 83-year-old you can use: individual and your democratic pensioner died on Monday, July institutions and values are 26th, after a fire of unknown REGIONAL respected by all. origin swept through her home The Chairman of the 15-member “You want a Haiti where in Linden, the second largest regional grouping, the Caribbean children can attend school, get a city situated on the north-eastern Community (CARICOM), has solid education and build a good section of the country. Police sought to assure Haitians that the future; and you want a nation said that Norma Semple, lived region stands in solidarity with which creates jobs; provides alone in the one-story wooden the French speaking CARICOM lands to the landless; delivers structure. The authorities said member state. health care; empowers workers, that her body was discovered In an address at the funeral and improves the quality of life after fire officials, who had service on July 23rd, held for for all,” he added. responded to a call from the late Prime Minister, Jovenel Semple’s neighbors as they tried Moise, who was assassinated IMF unsuccessfully to out the blaze. on July 7th, PM Gaston Brown Meanwhile, the Executive And in Trinidad, three offered condolences and said that Board of the International children died after a fire swept the circumstances of his death, Monetary Fund (IMF) has through a house in Maraval, shocked the entire Caribbean. approved a set of reforms to CARICOM saluted murdered Haitian President, Jovenel Moise, virtually at his just outside the capital also on Browne, who is also the the fund’s concessional lending funeral on July 23, 2021. (Credit: EPA) Monday morning, July 26th, fire Prime Minister of Antigua facilities to better support Low to provide concessional loans elimination of limits on access officials confirmed. They said and Barbuda, implored Haiti, Income Countries’ (LICs), such at zero interest rates. The to the poorest countries provided that the unidentified children the region and the world, not as those in the Caribbean, during IMF said lending to LICs their economic programs meet were aged 17, six and three to forget the circumstances of the COVIV-19 pandemic and the increased dramatically in the requirements for obtaining years old respectively. The Moise’s death. recovery. 2020 - an eight-fold increase above-normal access. cause of the fire has not yet been The CARICOM chairman The Executive Board also from average lending levels in disclosed and eyewitnesses said also said that Haiti must not approved an associated funding 2017–2019 - and is projected JAMAICA that at least two children were become “trapped in a vicious strategy to support the long-term to continue at elevated levels Prime Minister Andrew able to escape the inferno with cycle of retribution and sustainability of the Poverty for several years, “as LICs seek Holness, says Jamaica’s business assistance from the public. The recriminations. “Instead, the Reduction and Growth Trust financial assistance to help them process outsourcing (BPO) screams of the children were circumstances of Jovenel’s death, (PRGT). respond to and recover from the industry has recorded a 15 per heard in videos posted on social must shock everyone in Haiti The Washington-based pandemic. cent increase in employment, media and Assistant Chief Fire to seek pathways for peace, financial institution said these It said the centerpiece of the despite the economic fallout Officer, Marlon Smith, said stability, and prosperity, whether reforms are set to ensure that the approved policy reforms is a 45 resulting from the coronavirus that fire fighters found the three they were his political friend or fund has the capacity to respond percent increase in the normal (COVID-19) pandemic. bodies after the fire had been political foe,” he added. flexibly to LICs’ needs over the limits on access to concessional Addressing the opening of extinguished. Brown also urged the people medium term while continuing financing, coupled with the the IBEX BPO facility at the G-Tech Park in Portmore, St. CUBA Catherine, southeast of Kingston, Twenty-two nations have Holness said approximately joined the US in condemning 44,000 persons were employed the mass arrests and detentions across the sector as of June of protestors in Cuba by the 2021, relative to 38,400 for government there. the corresponding period last Foreign Ministers of Austria, year. He said that the sector Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, was among the few managing Cyprus, Czech Republic, da Vinci operating suite to navigate the ravages of Ecuador, Estonia, Guatemala, COVID-19 to record growth. Greece, Honduras, Israel, Latvia, Hospital main lobby The G-Tech Park was Lithuania, Kosovo, Montenegro, conceptualized to meet the North Macedonia, Poland, emerging demand for services Republic of Korea, Ukraine provided by the growing PBO joined the United States of industry, which is a major America’s Secretary of State in contributor to Jamaica’s criticizing the arrest and jailing economy. Against this last week of people who took background, two additional to the streets in protests on July Little Miracles Suites at The Women’s Pavilion buildings are slated to be opened 11th. at the facility in early 2022. In a statement, issued by Adult/pediatric the US State Department, they emergency entrance ANTIGUA & BARBUDA called on the Cuban government Health authorities in Antigua “to respect the universal rights & Barbuda have confirmed the and freedoms of the Cuban presence of the Delta variant of people, including the free flow of the coronavirus (COVID-19) information to all Cubans.” and are urging nationals to get vaccinated as a means of DOMINICA combating the disease. 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