America Saint Kitts and Nevis The Nevis geothermal project is pushing ahead its development, with drilling as next step, thank to the recently approved funding of $17 million by the Caribbean Development Bank; it aims at increasing energy security with less emissions and costs
America Mexico The government kicked off the new year by incrementing the minimum salary by 20% and doubling the number of mandatory vacation days
America Canada Restaurants and the food industry debut new takeout ware and packaging amid phase-in of federal single-use plastics ban that aims at removing many single-use plastics from the market gradually until 2025
America Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has officially been sworn in as the country’s new president, returning after 12-year
America Peru The country's Constitutional Court has ordered the demolition of a 10-kilometre wall that separates a rich neighbourhood of Lima from a poor one, ruling it discriminatory and unacceptable to divide its people by social classes
America Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Vincentians are being encouraged to submit entries for the CARICOM Logo Competition, under the slogan ‘50 Years Strong: A Solid Foundation to Build On’; the Caribbean Community will commemorate its 50th anniversary on July 4, 2023
America Jamaica States of emergency in eight parishes have been renewed; announced on 15 November 2022 to control an ongoing threat of crime linked to gang activity, they allow authorities to search buildings and arrest citizens without a warrant
America Haiti MSF in Haiti is supporting the cholera vaccination campaign launched by the national health authorities in response to the resurgence of the disease, which has affected more than 15.000 people and caused more than 300 deaths since the end of September
America Honduras The 400-year-old church of St Francis of Assisi in Luquigüe, in the diocese of Yoro, as a valuable cultural and architectural heritage has been destined a donation by the Pope to begin restoration work
America Argentina In an effort to clean up surrounding ocean and use resources in a more efficient manner, new algorithmic technologies paired up with satellite images will be used in order to detect the location of plastic in the country's ocean
America Guatemala Local researchers using new laser technologies have located nearly 1.000 previously unknown Maya settlements dating back to 1000 BCE, featuring ceremonial centres, sporting facilities, roads, and more
America Guyana The country has completed the construction of the first 100 households that will be fully donated to low-income families, this being the first step of the government’s promise to deliver 50.000 houses
America Panama The state has launched a government-regulated system so that all students now have the ability to make purchases by only using their identity card