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Haiti has entered the Central American and Caribbean Games, with over 8.000 participants at their 100th year, with athletes in taekwondo, boxing, cycling, judo, chess and 3x3 basketball

Organizations behind the constitutional challenge to Dominica’s abortion law have welcomed a recent High Court ruling that is a key step towards reproductive rights; more work remains to guarantee women and girls meaningful access to safe legal abortion

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

The Western Regional Health Authority is calling on residents to take proactive steps to prevent dengue by regularly identifying and eliminating mosquito breeding sites, inspecting home, workplaces, communities once per week in rain and hurricane season

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

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

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

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

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%

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

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