The Reuters Daily Briefing Friday, September 30, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Ukraine’s advance challenges Putin’s grip on the Donbas region, Hurricane Ian veers toward the Carolinas, and euro zone inflation hits a record high of 10% Today’s biggest stories Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with […]

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THE Government of Barbados has secured BB$146.52 million from the issuance of a dual currency blue bond with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) acting as guarantors for the transaction. A blue bond is an innovative financial tool that has the potential to grow the blue economy. Blue bonds can be issued […]

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There would, of course, be great opposition to this by the world’s greatest polluters.  Consequently, enormous pressure would be put on small states not to pursue any of the legal initiatives now being contemplated by Vanuatu, by Antigua and Barbuda, Tuvalu, Palau and Niue, and by The Ecocide Foundation. 

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By CMC News Jamaica is the first country in the region to make significant progress in the development of a National Consumer Protection and Welfare Policy and Implementation Plan, according to Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Dr. Norman Dunn Spearheaded by the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), the policy seeks to ensure that consumers are […]

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HUIXTLA, Mexico, Sept 29 (Reuters) – A group of about 20 members of a fundamentalist Jewish sect escaped from a Mexican detention center in the southern state of Chiapas on Wednesday night, according to a Reuters reporter who filmed the incident. The group were being held by Mexico’s National System for Integral Family Development, or […]

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by Micaiah Morgan   CNW- Jamaica’s Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton, says more emphasis should be placed on prioritizing and financing mental health in the Americas region. Delivering his speech at the 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference in Washington DC on Tuesday, Dr. Tufton said financing mental health in the region would […]

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By Harold Isaac and Brian Ellsworth PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 29 (Reuters) – At least 12 prisoners in Haiti died for lack of food or medicine in the month ending in mid-September, a Haitian official said on Thursday, adding the figure had likely risen since then due to a gang blockade that has created crippling fuel shortages. […]

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By Brian Ellsworth   Sept 29 (Reuters) – Two U.S. lawmakers on Thursday said the United States should sanction Haitian gangs and those who help finance them, as the Caribbean nation remains gripped by a gang blockade that has caused increasingly dire fuel shortages. Gregory Meeks and Michael McCaul, during a hearing of the House […]

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SAO PAULO, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads President Jair Bolsonaro by 14 points, a poll released on Thursday showed, with the far-right incumbent having lost momentum against his leftist rival as the Oct. 2 presidential election looms. The survey by Datafolha showed Lula with 48% of voter support versus […]

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Two migrants were shot, one of them fatally, along a Texas highway as two men in a pickup truck opened fire on a group of people who had stopped for drinking water, authorities said on Thursday. The incident took place on Tuesday near the West Texas town […]

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