Monthly Archives: June 2022

Last week in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, political violence remained high amid targeted attacks by armed suspects against activists, including a Peasant Development Committee (CODECA) land defender in Guatemala and an LGBT+ activist in Honduras. Meanwhile, gang violence remained at heightened levels in Mexico, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. In Mexico, violence increased last week in Colima state, while members of the Operativa Blica gang tortured and killed seven men in San Luis Potos state. Elsewhere, election-related violence was recorded during gubernatorial elections in Oaxaca and Tamaulipas states on 5 June.

In Guatemala, political violence increased last week amid an upsurge in attacks against civilians, including social activists. On 7 June, two armed assailants shot and killed a land defender and member of CODECA in Morales, Izabal department (Prensa Comunitaria, 8 June 2022). Before his killing, the victim had received multiple threats over a land dispute in the Navajoa community, where he was leading the fight for land reclamations and rejecting the division and commercialization of lands in the community (APC Bolivia, 8 June 2022). Local organizations have denounced the states failure to prosecute attacks against farmers and members of CODECA (FIDH, 28 September 2021).

Elsewhere, in Jutiapa department, unidentified attackers shot and killed five people during a social gathering in El Coco village on 4 June. The perpetrators of the attack remain unclear, with conflicting reports emerging about the targets of the attack. While some reports suggest that the attack targeted a suspected member of a local self-defense group, other reports suggest that the attack was related to a dispute between local criminal groups (Soy 502, 7 June 2022). Such violence contributed to the 91% increase in violence in Guatemala last week relative to the past month flagged by ACLEDs Conflict Change Map, which first warned of increased violence to come in the country in the past month.

Meanwhile, national authorities declared a state of siege on 8 June in Ixchigun and Tajumulco municipalities in San Marcos department, restricting mobility in this area and enlarging state forces powers to carry out security operations (El Diario.es, 9 June 2022). This measure was implemented in response to the continuous clashes between armed members of Ixchigun and Tajumulco communities (Prensa Libre, 8 June 2022). Following the declaration of the state of siege, there was a clash between these two communities that left a civilian injured. The origin of this territorial dispute goes back to the creation of the Ixchigun municipality in 1933 (La Hora, 6 January 2022). National authorities have also attributed the perpetuation of this conflict to increasing disputes between organized criminal groups operating on the border with Mexico (Prensa Libre, 14 June 2022; Mazatecos, 9 June 2022).

In Honduras, unidentified attackers shot and killed an LGBT+ human rights activist last week in San Pedro Sula, Corts department. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras (OHCHR) condemned the killing, urging national authorities to conduct an impartial investigation (OACNUDH, 10 June 2022). According to UN representatives, members of the LGBT+ community in Honduras continue to be subjected to violence on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity (Reportar sin Miedo, 24 March 2022). In recent weeks, President Xiomara Castro had announced the implementation of criminal investigation protocols and the refinement of data collection tools to monitor and prosecute attacks against the LGBT+ community in the country (Human Rights Watch, 13 May 2022). The killing comes as the LGBT+ community commemorates LGBT+ Pride Month in June.

In Mexico, gang violence intensified in Colima state last week with attacks against civilians, including attacks against low-rank government officials and off-duty police officers. In Villa de lvarez, armed suspects shot and killed an off-duty police officer, while armed men attacked an officer of the judicial system in Manzanillo. The majority of attacks last week occurred in the neighboring cities of Colima and Villa de lvarez, resulting in at least 14 fatalities. Following last weeks violence, the mayor of Villa de lvarez claimed that she would seek to approve new regulations to allow police officers to carry their service guns while they are off-duty as a measure to guarantee their security (El Universal, 7 June 2022). Off-duty police officers have faced heightened targeting by gangs in Mexico (AP, 30 May 2021). These incidents contributed to the 137% increase in violence in Colima over the past week relative to the past month, as flagged by ACLEDs Subnational Surge Tracker. Violence in Colima has intensified following the breakdown in February of an alliance between the Los Mezcales gang and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

Elsewhere, in San Luis Potos state, gang violence continued last week, although to a lesser extent than the week prior. The Operativa Blica gang, a local ally of the CJNG, tortured and killed seven men before dumping their bodies in Aquismn municipality with threatening messages. ACLEDs Subnational Surge Tracker first warned of increased violence to come in San Luis Potos in the past month. The Gulf Cartel and the CJNG currently dispute control of drug trafficking in San Luis Potos, which is the gateway to northern states bordering the United States (La Opinion, 28 April 2022).

Meanwhile, election-related violence was reported in Oaxaca and Tamaulipas states as gubernatorial elections were held in six states on 5 June. In Oaxaca, the polling day was met with social unrest in Ciudad Ixtepec, Miahuatlan de Porfirio Diaz, Salina Cruz, San Juan Guichicovi, and San Miguel del Puerto municipalities, where residents set fire to electoral urns and ballots. This was done as part of demonstrations against the lack of rapid response and support from authorities to Hurricane Agatha and a lack of solutions to land conflicts. Similarly, in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, two men locked several people inside a polling place in an attempt to prevent them from casting votes while a group of armed men stole ballot boxes with votes. Representatives of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) won the governorships in Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Hidalgo, and Tamaulipas, and now hold power in 22 of the 32 states of Mexico (Infobae, 6 June 2022).

In Jamaica, violence increased last week compared to the week prior, driven by attacks against civilians carried out by gangs and armed groups. These attacks contributed to the 56% increase in violence in Jamaica in the past month relative to the past year, flagged by ACLEDs Conflict Change Map, which first warned of increased violence to come in the country in the past month. Multiple attacks left three people dead in Kingston, driving the 129% increase in violence in the parish over the past week relative to the past month, as flagged by ACLEDs Subnational Surge Tracker. Meanwhile, armed men wearing police disguises carried out a drive-by shooting attack in Spanish Town, Saint Catherine parish, killing four people.

In Puerto Rico, violence remained at high levels last week amid attacks by armed assailants, including the killings of two people in separate attacks in the neighborhood of Santurce, San Juan municipality. Meanwhile, in San Lorenzo municipality, two unidentified assailants beat a man and shot at his vehicle. While violence in this municipality has not been common, it has become increasingly volatile, resulting in a shift from a place of low risk to being considered an area of growing risk by ACLEDs Volatility and Risk Predictability Index. According to authorities, this violence is related to the actions of criminal groups that seek to control the local drug market (EFE, 17 January 2022). Last week, around 60 people were arrested during police security operations for alleged involvement in drug trafficking activities in the rural areas of the island (Swissinfo, 7 June 2022).

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The Caribbean regions Informal Drug Policy Dialogue that was held in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), in December 2021, at the initiative of Transnational Institute (TNI) in close collaboration with the Medicinal Cannabis Authority (MCA) of SVG highlighted several challenges to the establishment of a legal medical cannabis industry currently being faced by countries in the region. These issues include international banking restrictions; access to laboratory, research and testing facilities; complying with EU GACP and GMP to meet the standards for exports, the Seed-to-Sale System; securing access for patients and getting doctors to prescribe; the structure of the licensing system; guarantees for the Rastafari community for ceremonial ganja usage, and most importantly, how to envisage traditional cultivators inclusion in the regulatory framework and practice being developed. Around the table seven (7) countries were represented from the region: Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, St Lucia and of course St Vincent and the Grenadines.

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(San Juan, P.R.) Puerto Ricos first official video game team, the Red Roosters, continue to bet on developing industry on the Island, with a view of becoming the undisputed leader of eSports in the Caribbean and Latin America.

"The year 2022 has undoubtedly been one full of successes for the video game industry in Puerto Rico. At a competitive level, we have managed to achieve great triumphs in all the events we have participated in," said the group's spokesman and professional gamer, Ricardo "Mono" Romn.

Back in March, the Red Rooster Team developed at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum the eighth edition of the Winter Clash 2022. The event had 300 participating competitors and more than 2,000 attendants, making it the most important video game events in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.In addition, in the 2022 closing of the Elements League, Puerto Rico began the competition by beating the undefeated world champion, Saprisa eSport of Costa Rica.

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Romn's expressions are given in the context of a study by the Inteligencia Econmica firm, which evealed that betting on the eSports industry in Puerto Rico shows solid growth in the context of the pandemic, which establishes a new source of income for the state and for private industry.

"With the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of many sporting events, many media have turned to video game streaming as a content alternative. The betting market on digital platforms in eSports can present an opportunity to attract non-traditional bettors. Given the demographic of the eSports audience, which tends to be younger, this represents an opportunity to create a new betting market in a sport that is in its infancy and demonstrating impressive trends of development and growth."

Hotels and the training industry would also benefit of this in general in the face of the challenges of the pandemic. "This option can be a way to generate revenue in the short term, and not lose the captive customers those hotels, casinos and other players in the industry have," they say.

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George Lamming, a novelist and essayist from Barbados who was among the last of a generation of Caribbean writers whose work traced their regions transition from colonialism to independence, died on June 4 at his home in Bridgetown, his countrys capital. He was 94.

The death was confirmed by his daughter, Natasha Lamming-Lee. She did not provide a cause.

Mr. Lammings early work, like that of his contemporaries V.S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, was filtered through his experience as a young man in London, where he published his first novel, In the Castle of My Skin, in 1953. He was part of what came to be known as the Windrush generation, the hundreds of thousands of Caribbean people who migrated to Britain after the government ruled, in 1948, that they were British citizens.

For Mr. Lamming and others, the rapid collapse of the British Empire was a moment of soul-searching and measure-taking: What did it mean to be Barbadian? Could a former colonial subject, let alone an entire society, craft an identity independent of its colonizer? And what was the place of art in that vision?

I think that they were seeking the right to speak for themselves and their societies and their landscapes, to describe the world which had made them with a precision and care of the insider, Richard Drayton, a historian at Kings College, London, and a friend of Mr. Lammings, said in a phone interview. For its own sake, not for the entertainment of an English public.

In the Castle of My Skin was a critical success, winning the Somerset Maugham Award and earning Mr. Lamming a Guggenheim fellowship. A loosely autobiographical tale about a boy growing up in Barbados amid labor and social unrest, it also drew on Mr. Lammings extensive readings in existentialist thought. The French philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir both championed the book, as did the Black American writer Richard Wright, who had moved to Paris in 1946.

The novel, full of dense imagery and metaphor, blends techniques and styles from poetry, memoir and theater, a mlange typical of Mr. Lammings fiction.

The water rose higher and higher until the fern and flowers on our veranda were flooded, he wrote. My mother brought sacks that absorbed it quickly, but overhead the crevices of the roof were weeping rain, and surfacing the carpet and the epergne of flowers and fern were liquid, glittering curves which the mourning black of the shingles had bequeathed.

In his introduction to the books U.S. edition, Mr. Wright wrote that Lammings is a true gift; as an artist, he possesses a quiet and stubborn courage, and in him a new writer takes his place in the literary world.

Mr. Lamming used the money from his awards to travel to Ghana and the United States, as well as back to the Caribbean; those journeys put him in touch with the African diaspora and bolstered his sense of political commitment, an aspect of his work that set him apart from Walcott, Naipaul and many others in his cohort. He attended the landmark Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris in 1956, and he became close friends with the Marxist literary critic C.L.R. James.

Hes very different from the others in that he placed himself in what one might term a sort of Afro-global diaspora tradition, the writer Caryl Phillips said in a phone interview.

At the same time, Mr. Lamming was also steeped in British literature Thomas Hardy was one of his favorite poets and he was fascinated with Shakespeares The Tempest, in particular the relationship between the shipwrecked sorcerer Prospero and his slave Caliban, which was, he felt, a metaphor for the relationship between colonizer and colonized.

Throughout his work, Mr. Lamming sought to complicate that relationship. It was a hierarchy, he conceded, but also a dynamic, in which the colonized can overcome his or her double consciousness, or experience of alienation, to make space for his or her own identity and freedom.

The double consciousness must be seen as a strategy, and not as a prison, he said in a 2002 interview with the magazine Small Axe. Hes in my consciousness as I am in his. And I have the power to place meanings on him that is no less than his placing meanings on me.

Achieving that vision takes political struggle, and as his career progressed Mr. Lamming dedicated more of his energy to activism. He wrote the last of his six novels, Natives of My Person, in 1972; his subsequent published work was all nonfiction, in the form of essays, speeches and manifestoes.

He worried that in the wake of colonialism, Caribbean society was recreating the same class structures, and even finding new imperial metropoles to submit to, above all the United States. He traveled widely, supporting left-wing governments and organizing activists around the Caribbean.

To support himself, he began an academic career in the late 1960s, teaching and serving as writer in residence at Brown University, the University of Texas, Duke University, the University of the West Indies and other institutions.

To him, fiction, essays and activism were all part of the same endeavor.

I havent changed very much in that sense of almost seeing what I do and myself as a kind of evangelist, he told Small Axe. Im a preacher of some kind; I am a man bringing a message of some kind.

George William Lamming was born on June 8, 1927, in Carrington, a village located on a former sugar plantation outside Bridgetown. His parents were unmarried, and he knew his father only from a distance. His mother, Loretta Devonish, was a homemaker who later married Clyde Medford, a police officer.

He recalled wisps of class consciousness from an early age. Labor unrest swept through the island in 1937, killing 14 and providing the backdrop for In the Castle of My Skin.

He won a scholarship to attend one of Barbadoss three grammar schools, where an English teacher, Frank Collymore, who also edited the islands leading literary magazine, introduced him to writing.

In 1946 he moved to Port of Spain, Trinidad, where he taught in a boarding school for wealthy Venezuelans. It was a culturally and politically vibrant place; he met the American singer, actor and left-wing activist Paul Robeson, who was there on tour, and he began his first encounters with Marxism and continental philosophy.

He married the artist Nina Ghent in 1950; they later divorced. Along with his daughter, he is survived by his longtime partner, Esther Phillips; seven grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. His son, Gordon Lamming, died in 2021.

Mr. Lamming returned to Barbados in 1980 and eventually moved into a hotel on the rural eastern side of the island. It became his base of operations, where he met with political activists and wrote his speeches and essays.

And though he remained focused on Caribbean politics, he was also prescient about a global resurgence of white supremacy in the 21st century, long before it became obvious.

The white world is closing ranks, he said in a 1998 speech at the City College of New York. The Cold War is over, and a new racial hierarchy is emerging.

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Since its pilot launch in September 2021 in Saint Lucia, the Nudge Caribbean social enterprise has welcomed twenty-six mindful entrepreneurs. As cohort 3 sets to activate its instore promotion in Massy Stores Mega on Friday 17th June 2022, entrepreneurs in the community and key stakeholders met at Coco Palm Resort for an interactive mixer to mark the occasion.

Nudge Caribbean is founded by creative entrepreneur Anya Ayoung-Chee and Julie Avey, Massy Groups Senior Vice President of People and Culture. The programme was first introduced in the Trinidadian market in 2020, to support entrepreneurs affected by the COVID19 pandemic and a year later welcomed Barbados and Saint Lucia into the community.

Nudge Caribbean is supported by the Massy Group and the Caribbean Development Bank to aid in developing the various initiatives in each island. The products are all #MindfullyMade, handmade with locally sourced materials (where possible).

For partners like Massy Stores, supporting this initiative aligns with the companys mandate to assist small businesses in developing products which are sustainable and purposeful.

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According to Linda Augier, Division Head Category Management, Merchandising and Sales, of Massy Stores Saint Lucia: Our role in this initiative is similar to our Because We Care campaign which supports local manufacturers and places a spotlight on their achievements. For us, to provide a platform for Saint Lucian Nudge entrepreneurs to raise awareness and experience sales in our stores is immeasurable, and we are committed to providing our continuous support.

A consortium from the Nudge regional team joined the local coordinators in welcoming the entrepreneurs. Also present at the mixer were strategic partners from the Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards, Bank of Saint Lucia, Cabot Saint Lucia, Massy Group and Massy Stores (St. Lucia), They were able to engage the community, interact with the products and participate in a pre-sale activity.

The e ntrepreneurs have the expertise of the entire regional community within Nudge and receive guidance and hands-on support from Nudge Country Coordinator Kezia Preville of AdVizze Consulting Inc, and Brand Ambassadors Shenel Charles and Keamalyn Charles in Saint Lucia.

The new cohort joining the growing network in Saint Lucia and showcasing locally made products at Massy Stores Mega Friday 17th June 2022 are:

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Lisa Barton- Volney, DeKloze Line (clothing, jewelry) Allana Maximin, Mallee Designs (jewelry) Jasmine Joseph, Natiwelo et Belle (natural deodorants and soaps) Huanna French-Leon, Sak Sa (creole activity book) Kisha James-Henry, Luvysmade758 (face and body products) Easteline Lewis, Els Designs (handbag sets) Nydia Norville, Choiselle (coconut wax candles and body products)

Edisa Eugene, EBamboo CreationsKayode James, Real 3D PrintingKera Rene, KerNaturalsTerill Nicholas, Illuminating DesignsShena Nathaniel. XennEmma Abraham, Emma DollsJessica Alexander, Sa Nou (St Lucia)Malon Joseph, Lucian ChildJancel Thomas, Healthy StrandsShakira Roberts, Lotus Cosmetics Slu

Christina Jn Pierre, KleteChelsea Jongue, Katuri DesignsCatherine Edmund, CK DesignsJenneivi Augustin, Adellee BagsCecilia Augustin, Ceelouette BijouxMelissa Charles, Springforth Hair OilsDarnica Jn Charles, DAtizayAngella Dalsou, Local Hippie ProductsSheena Xavier, Ti Kay Bouton

Visit the Nudge Market Stall inside Massy Stores Mega every Friday (9AM 4PM) and Saturday (8AM 1PM) from June 17 to July 24 and show support for these incredible creatives!

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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. June 17, 2022: The founder of the African Blood Brotherhood, one of the one of the seminal groups of African American associations in the 1917s, was born in the Caribbean.

Cyril Valentine Briggs was born on May 28, 1888, in Nevis and emigrated to the United States in July 1905 to join his mother, who had already emigrated here. Briggs first American writing job came in 1912 at the Amsterdam News.

In 1917, Briggs founded the African Blood Brotherhood (ABB), with a goal to stop lynching and racial discrimination, and ensure voting and civil rights for African Americans in the South. He also called for black self-determination. The group initially opposed American involvement in the First World War.

In 1918, the ABB started a magazine called The Crusader, which supported the Socialist Party of Americas platform and helped expose lynchings in the South and discrimination in the North.

Briggs hoped that President Woodrow Wilson would support voting rights for African Americans in the South after the service of veterans in the war. Southern Democratic congressmen opposed any changes. Disillusioned by Socialist and progressive efforts, Briggs joined the Communist Party of America in 1921 and called for control by African-American workers of the means of production which employed them, whether in industry or in agriculture.

Briggs became a leading exponent of racial separatism. Briggs saw American White-Black racism as a form of hatred of the unlike that draws its virulence from the firm conviction in the white mans mind of the inequality of races the belief that there are superior and inferior races and that the former are marked with a white skin and the latter with dark skin and that only the former are capable and virtuous and therefore alone fit to vote, rule and inherit the earth.

Briggs proposed a new solution then emerging, in which the African American had come to the realization that the salvation of his race and an honorable solution of the American Race Problem call for action and decision in preference to the twaddling, dreaming, and indecision of leaders.'

Briggs would remain an active member of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) throughout the decade of the 1920s.] In 1925 the African Blood Brotherhood was dissolved and replaced with a new organizational entity, the American Negro Labor Congress. Briggs was tapped as the new national secretary of the new Communist Party-sponsored organization.

He would remain an influential figure in the partys hierarchy until the advent of the moderate Popular Front. Briggs would ultimately be expelled from the CPUSA at the end of the 1930s, accused of maintaining a Negro nationalist way of thinking in defiance of the new integrationist party line.

Briggs died on October 18, 1966, in Los Angeles, California.

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THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eagle LNG Partners LLC (Eagle LNG) announced today it has partnered with the Royal Caribbean Group to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering for the cruise companys LNG ships, including the first ship debuting in 2023 Icon of the Seas, the first ship in the Icon Class for the companys Royal Caribbean International brand. Eagle LNG will debut multiple purpose-built LNG vessels equipped for marine bunkering and gas delivery throughout the Caribbean.

The LNG bunker supply vessels are optimized for cruise ship bunkering with state-of-the-art distance keeping, hose handling, product conditioning and mooring solutions. Given the beauty of the countries and islands where they will operate, the vessels will maintain the highest possible environmental ship index (ESI) score, fuel efficiency, versatility and cargo handling capabilities while incorporating design elements from the vibrant colors of the Caribbean islands.

Eagle LNG is honored to have been chosen by Royal Caribbean Group as its LNG bunker partner. Our shared vision for a sustainable future, including achieving net zero emissions by 2050, creates a strong foundation for a long-term partnership, said Matthew Fisher, Vice President of Corporate Development and Sustainability for Eagle LNG. By introducing these purpose-built bunkering ships for the Caribbean, we are setting that vision into motion while also creating opportunities for island nations to access low-cost, secure, U.S. produced natural gas for power generation.

The LNG supply will be sourced from Eagle LNGs liquefaction facilities in Jacksonville, Florida. Eagle LNGs facilities are designed for loading bunker vessels and LNG carriers for the Caribbean while maintaining economies of scale using modular liquefaction technology. The facilities will be capable of blending in renewable feedstocks to help customers achieve their carbon reduction goals.

About Eagle LNG

Eagle LNG is a privately held and operated portfolio company of The Energy & Minerals Group. Eagle LNG provides affordable, efficient, and clean-burning energy. It develops bespoke small-scale LNG fueling solutions for marine industries and power generation in the Caribbean and Latin America. Eagle LNG is based in Houston, Texas. For additional information, please visit http://www.eaglelng.com.

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The Energy & Minerals Group (EMG) is a private investment firm with Regulatory Assets Under Management of approximately $13 billion as of March 31, 2022. EMG targets equity investments of $150 million to $1,000 million in the energy and minerals sectors with talented, experienced management teams, focused on hard assets that are integral to existing and growing markets. For additional information, please visit http://www.emgtx.com.

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Verbinski's work on the remake of the Japanese horror movie "The Ring" and his Rube Goldberg-filled film "Mouse Hunt" gave him a unique skill set for his work on "Pirates." That combination of supernatural and slapstick created exploding skeletons, swinging Sparrows, and of course, the wheel fight in "Dead Man's Chest." In the scene, James Norrington (Jack Davenport) and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) clash swords while balancing on an unhinged mill wheel, which traps the hapless Sparrow (Johnny Depp).

Bloom shot another scene with his pirate crew inside a large, bone cage that swung like a pendulum between two green screens. In the film, it looks far more dangerous as the pirates dangle between two cliffs. But by contrast, the wheel fight isn't a work of CGI. In an interview with MovieWeb, Bloom recalled the scene as the most challenging he had to shoot for the film.

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Ignition-Innovation, a digital ID firm in the Caribbean, has selected the face biometric authentication and liveness detection services of iProov to verify users of its TruMeID product in Trinidad & Tobago.

TruMeID is digital ID software that opens access to online services with facial recognition. It compares a selfie to photo ID for authentication and biometric liveness detection. The passive face biometric scan also enables authentication in real-time, which prevents digital injection attacks such as with deepfakes, according to the announcement.

Jeston Lett, CEO of Ignition-Innovation, says the company chose iProov because of its, superior facial verification technology, as well as the support from the team, their willingness to help and the spirit of collaboration.

Governments around the world are all facing the same challenge how to provide citizen access to more digital services when cyber criminals are ramping up their tactics and intensity, says Andrew Bud, CEO of iProov. Our technology plays a major role in helping governments keep people and data safe in light of this growing threat.

iProovs biometric authentication services were also recently integrated into Nuggets self-sovereign ID platform and a decentralized digital ID platform from Finema.

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A dreamy escape to the Caribbean is on most peoples bucket list, but it may not be as far away as you think.

Escape to BCs magical Calvert Island for the next best thing to a tropical vacation that is also a lot easier on the wallet.

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With glistening waters and pristine sandy white beaches, this gem is known as being the Canadian Caribbean.

The beautiful oasis is nestled on the southern edge of the Great Bear Rainforest, about 100 km north of the town of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island. While its quite the trek to travel here, its well worth every minute.

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Whats more, is it offers world class scuba diving in Carrington Reef. And it features a variety of secluded bays, coves in addition to lagoons just waiting to be explored.

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The island is also home to a variety of wildlife, including deer, wolves and black bears.

By visiting this seemingly tropical spot, you may feel like youve been swept away to the Caribbean without leaving B.C.

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Where: About 100 km north of the town of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island

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