The Argentine economist will replace Mexican diplomat Alicia Bárcena, who concluded her mandate on March 31 after nearly 14 years at the helm of ECLAC. The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has appointed Argentine economist Mario Cimoli, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), to serve as […]
The Government of Grenada joined the British Virgin Islands, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Lucia to become a signatory to a new United Nations Multi-country Sustainable Development Framework (MSDCF) for the Caribbean for the years 2022 to 2026. The Framework, which will align with individual Country Implementation Plans, will govern UN collaboration in the […]
Today, we are reminded that we are tremendously off track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. New, tragic data informs us that between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020 – as many as 161 million more than in 2019. High costs, coupled with persistently high levels of […]
By António Guterres Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve heard a lot about global solidarity. Unfortunately, words by themselves will not end the pandemic – or curb the impact of the climate crisis. Now is the moment to show what solidarity means in practice. As G20 Finance Ministers meet in Venice, they face […]
A strictly security-focused approach to crime prevention is costly, ineffective and paves the way for human rights violations. Why Caribbean governments should make the shift to a human rights-based approach to crime prevention now. People in the Caribbean face some of the highest levels of violence in the world. Of the 22 Latin American and […]
Grenada has voted with the overwhelming majority of the United Nations General Assembly, to support a resolution that calls for an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba. 184 countries voted to end the embargo on Wednesday. However, the United States and Israel voted for the embargo […]
Two months after the devastating eruption of the La Soufrière Volcano, with thousands still displaced, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, has provided a grim reminder of the ongoing humanitarian crisis, noting “we really have two countries at the moment.” His comments came yesterday as he addressed a Donor Roundtable discussion […]
UNAIDS urges world leaders to adopt a bold political declaration on HIV at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS, being held in New York and online next week, and to commit to achieving a new set of targets for 2025 to end AIDS by 2030 NEW YORK/GENEVA/KINGSTON, 3 June 2021—Four decades after […]
Bridgetown: 2 June, 2021 – As development partners work assiduously to assist the Government and people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to recover and build back better from the widespread social and economic dislocation caused by April 9 eruption of the La Soufriere volcano, the United Nations has welcomed a pledge of over USD$3 […]
