America

A new study by the World Weather Attribution organisation found out that this year’s record-breaking heat was 60 times more likely thanks to the world’s climate change

As this past year there has been a significant increase in horse meat exports, the Santuarios Primitivos NGO has begun buying trucks transporting horses towards slaughter houses, to then save them as well as give them up for adoption

The country is currently working on a project to deliver 10.000 homes to low-income families, and this week it has started handing out the first dozen of them

For the very first time, the country has established diplomatic relations with Cape Verde, and will be focusing primarily in cooperating for better access to climate finance and disaster management

New Coast Guard base opens on the island of Bequia, supporting the key role of the Coat Guard in maintaining the safety of SVG as well as of visitors

The JNF General Hospital water supply has been fully restored after a pump failure that caused a temporary water shortage earlier this week; the hospital is serviced by a dedicated tank that holding enough water for up to two months

The Electoral College will meet on 23 January to elect a new President

The government has guaranteed that - due to its pipeline restructuring efforts - this upcoming year 75% of the country will finally have access to drinking water for households use and for animals, affected by ongoing droughts

As the demand for flights has had a sharp increase in the past year, the government announced that it will nearly triple the taxes applied to flight tickets, causing great distress among local airlines as some haven’t still recovered from the 2020 crisis

The country has signed an agreement with Colombia to neutralise the drug trafficking groups’ confrontations that take place in their shared border, which includes merging their soldiers and deploying almost 4.000 of them into the area

Foreign investments have grown by approximately 65% in the past trimester; as they have been mainly towards the tourism sector, the government has decided to reconsider its efforts towards tourism for the upcoming year

The state held a ceremony to commemorate the 20.000 victims of the Managua Earthquake of 1972 by holding a nation-wide earthquake drill in which approximately 600.000 people took part

The government has deployed 10.000 troops to the gang-controlled areas of the country, planning to surround all of the areas and extract the members one by one to place them in the country’s newest, dedicated prison