America Belize The Peace Corps Belize branch is back to serve on a Youth-Health project, partnering with primary school teachers and principals to provide free health and life skills education to students, after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic
America Ecuador The Agriculture and Livestock Ministry has established an emergency plan for small banana producers to battle ongoing inflation, which consists in giving them a temporary subsidiary to restructure their debts
America Barbados Pre-entry test requirement for fully vaccinated travellers will be removed from tomorrow: fully vaccinated persons will be no longer required to present a COVID-19 test result in order to enter Barbados
America Argentina All of the country's money bills will be re-designed to include an equal amount of historical women and men, as a way to advocate for gender equality
America Bolivia The indigenous people of San Andrés and Santiago de Machaca have built specific waterways used by their ancestors to save water reserves that aid hundreds of indigenous people; something that couldn’t be done by authorities throughout the years
America Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are among the Eastern Caribbean countries that will receive a total of $22 million from the WBG for the OECS Data for Decision Making project, aimed at improving the production and dissemination of statistical data
America Saint Lucia The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Elderly Affairs has appealed to citizens to know their blood pressure status through regular and documented checks, using appropriate techniques and validated monitoring
America Dominican Republic The country is a leader in the export of organic bananas, with 63% of the hectares dedicated to production already certified, accounting for 7,5% of agricultural GDP
America Uruguay The country has suspended the VAT tax on the majority of its tourism activities in order to boost national tourism and international traveling
America Suriname Due to its increasing collaboration with mining enterprises, as of this year, the country has reported a 126% increase in mining revenues
America Canada With 17 suspected monkeypox cases in the Montreal area, Public Health said they're asking health workers to be alert but added the illness is not extremely contagious and relative mild
America United States The House passed the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act with 222 to 203 votes; the bill seeks to create dedicated offices throughout the government, after a gunman fatally shot 10 people in an incident that President Biden called “domestic terrorism”
America Guatemala The country is holding its first ever technical meeting on agriculture with Belize, so they can actively cooperate in the production of grains and raising of livestock, since their geographical conditions are similar