by Natalie Moodey | Jun 24, 2024 | Caribbean Insight
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned a senior Guyanese public officer and two prominent businessmen. The sanctions come in response to alleged corruption involving the parties and the business they operate and are...
by Natalie Moodey | Jun 24, 2024 | Caribbean Insight
Finance Minister Nigel Clarke has announced that Jamaica plans to adopt the ‘twin peaks’ model for financial sector supervision and regulation by 2026. Under this model, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) will oversee prudential supervision, while the Financial...
by Natalie Moodey | Jun 20, 2024 | Caribbean Insight
A team of Haitian police commanders have met Kenya’s inspector general of police ahead of a planned deployment to the violence-hit Caribbean country expected to take place by the end of June. In Nairobi, a team of Haitian police commanders on Tuesday met Kenya’s...
by Natalie Moodey | Jun 13, 2024 | Caribbean Insight
The Gunas of Gardi Sugdub are the first of 63 communities along Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that government officials and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in the coming decades. An official from Panama’s Housing Ministry said,...
by Natalie Moodey | Jun 13, 2024 | Caribbean Insight
Kenyan police will deploy to Haiti within weeks to lead a UN-backed multinational mission aimed at tackling gang violence, a senior government official in the East African country said on the 19 of May. “That deployment will happen in the next few days, few...
