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Police destroyed approximately 5.000 fully grown cannabis trees in Moruga, for an estimated street value of $5 million, during a coordinated cannabis suppression exercise led by the Criminal Investigations Branch with officers from Jungle Operations Team

A consolidated framework for Barbados’s labour laws would simplify compliance, reduce workplace disputes and better support small and medium-sized businesses, tourism minister told Parliament saying that a single centralized reference is needed

Activists and civil organizations are calling on Antigua and Barbuda’s tourism industry to fund new waste management equipment rather than wait on government support, identifying in the sector the country’s biggest contributor to waste

The Organizing Committee of the Habanos Festival announced the cancellation of the XXVI edition of the event, citing the need to preserve "the standards of excellence" of the meeting in the face of the deteriorated "current context" of Cuba

1,9 million domestic tourists are expected to travel in Peru during the long weekend 25-29 July, a key season; Cusco, Arequipa and Ica are the most popular destinations, with hotels already reporting occupancy rates of up to 90%

A bill to organize and systematize the Legislative Digest is now at the Senate; over 7.600 overlapping laws weigh on the national legal framework which now pends on interpretation and changes should streamline laws and facilitate access to regulations

While authorities present Nicaragua as a country of peace and harmony, an international report denounces deterioration in religious freedom; in the worsening persecution of Christians a priest returning from Spain after his graduation was denied entry

The investigation into the mass fish deaths in the Saramacca River is reportedly following a trail which apparently suggests that these deaths were caused by pollution from the gold mining sector

The rice growers' association maintains that there is no immediate risk of produce shortages and that decisions regarding future imports will depend on the harvest results, forecasting a sufficient crop despite El Niño

Since may, relatives of the 135.000 and over missing people, known as desaparecidos, led protests in front of a number of Mexican stadiums to enhance awareness of the phenomenon

The first steps in the selection process for the architectural proposal of the new National Museum MuNa have been made; it is envisioned as a new cultural landmark for the country

Cuban doctors working at Grenada's General Hospital have been offered special contracts in an effort to keep them on the job and to address allegations from the US that Havana is using them to earn foreign currency, as 10 countries caved into the pressure