In recent weeks the world has witnessed the most tense moments in international relations since the end of the Cold War. This was evident in the deliberations and voting by members of the United Nations on resolutions calling on Russia to halt its invasion and withdraw its forces from Ukraine.
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KINGSTON, March 7, 2022 - Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson-Smith says her ministry has been in contact with eighteen Jamaican students in Russia, three (3) of whom are making plans to leave in the coming days, as they consider the Ministry's recommendation that Jamaican nationals located in Russia leave that country, as the situation is becoming increasingly difficult as a consequence of various sanctions imposed in response to its military actions in Ukraine.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 3, 2022 - Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community has strongly condemned the military attacks and invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and call for an immediate ceasefire, an end to all acts of aggression, and the urgent withdrawal of Russian military forces in Ukraine.
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana - Thursday, 3 March 2022) - The Thirty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held on 1-2 March 2022. Chair of the Conference, the Prime Minister of Belize, the Honourable John Briceño presided over the proceedings.
KINGSTON, Jamaica , March 1, 2022 - The long awaited Vale Royal Talks - a mechanism for the two main political parties to have bipartisan dialogue on critical national issues - resumed on Sunday at the University of the West Indies Regional Head-quarters, with a wide ranging agenda covering matters from national security to the Jamaica 60 commemorations.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 28, 2022 - People’s National Party President, Mark Golding, MP has secured the commitment of a group of psychiatrists to provide counselling services to Jamaican students studying in the Ukraine who may have been affected by the Ukraine/Russia conflict and feel the need for those services.
Indian students in war torn Ukraine have claimed that they are being prevented from leaving the war-torn country, while African students say they are being discriminated against and pushed back at the Medyka border crossing with Poland.
As fighting rages across Ukraine, two versions of reality that underlie the conflict stare across a deep divide, neither conceding any truth to the other. The more widespread and familiar view in the West, particularly in the United States, is that Russia is and has always been an expansionist state, and its current president, Vladimir Putin, is the embodiment of that essential Russian ambition: to build a new Russian empire.
KINGSTON, Jamaica February 28, 2022 - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says while twenty-four (24) Jamaican students who were in Ukraine have safely arrived in Poland and processed for entry by the Polish Authorities, there were still four students known to be in Ukraine who are being monitored by the Ministry.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Feb. 28, 2022 - The Government of Barbados says the administration is already seeking to put measures in place to cushion any likely fallout from the war that has broken out in the Ukraine with Russia.
