The business FAO’s activities are divided into four main areas: the organization compiles and disseminates knowledge, advises member countries, offers a meeting place for intergovernmental negotiations and disseminates knowledge in the field through development...
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Yearbook 2014 USA. According to Countryaah.com, United States population in 2020 is estimated at 331,002,662. The president’s annual speech to the nation in January reflected the locked state of politics. Barack Obama mentioned several...
Yearbook 2014 Trinidad and Tobago. In January, the country’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, described the increase in violent crimes that Trinidad and Tobago experienced as “totally unacceptable”. Among the large number of people killed...
Yearbook 2014 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In February, senior representatives of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Saint Lucia met to discuss joint investments in the telecom sector. According to Countryaah.com, Saint...
Yearbook 2014 Saint Lucia. In March, disaster status was announced due to water shortages in the northern part of the island. Despite rain during the following months, the situation did not improve. In July,...
Yearbook 2014 Panama. According to Countryaah.com, Panama population in 2020 is estimated at 4,314,778. Vice President Juan Carlos Varela of the Panamist Party (PPA) unexpectedly won the May 4 presidential election. So far, everything...
Yearbook 2014 Nicaragua. On January 29, Congress approved a constitutional amendment that gives an incumbent president unlimited opportunities to be re-elected. The outcome was expected given the strong position of the ruling FSLN (Sandinist...
Yearbook 2014 Mexico. Great national and international attention got the massacre of 43 teacher students from Ayotzinapa in the state of Guerrero, who disappeared after a September 26 demonstration in what appeared to be...
Yearbook 2014 Jamaica. As a step towards trying to deal with the high crime rate in the country, the Jamaican Senate in March adopted a so-called anti-gang law aimed at organized crime. According to...
Yearbook 2014 Honduras. The winner of the 2013 presidential election, incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernández, was sworn into office January 27 for a second term. Prior to the installation, he reformed the government, but...
Yearbook 2014 Haiti. According to Countryaah.com, Haiti population in 2020 is estimated at 11,402,539. The hopes that the political stalemate that has practically prevailed since Michel Martelly took office in 2011 could be broken...
Yearbook 2014 Guatemala. According to Countryaah.com, Guatemala population in 2020 is estimated at 17,915,579. A ruling in the Guatemalan Constitutional Court in February brought new momentum to the debate on the legal situation in...
Yearbook 2014 Grenada. In January, Grenada’s Prime Minister, Keith Mitchell, announced that an application for membership had been submitted to ALBA, a cooperative organization for Latin American and Caribbean countries. According to Countryaah.com, Grenada...
Yearbook 2014 Greenland. It was very much a turbulent year politically with a government crisis and new elections. The conflicts were resolved around the Chairman of the National Board Aleqa Hammond. In January, her...
Yearbook 2014 El Salvador. On March 16, the electoral authority declared left-wing candidate Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the ruling Liberal Front Farabundo Martí for National Liberation (FMLN) as victor in the second round of...
Yearbook 2014 Dominican Republic. According to Countryaah.com, Dominican Republic population in 2020 is estimated at 10,847,921. President Danilo Medina’s popularity reached record highs during the year after the half-term. In an opinion poll, he...
Yearbook 2014 Dominica. Illegal adoptions became a debated issue during the year. The issue was brought to the attention of, among others, representatives of the organization ChildFund, which warned that adoptions of children brought...
Yearbook 2014 Cuba. The year was dominated by several initiatives to open the Cuban economy to the outside world. First, preparatory negotiations were held in Havana at the end of April between representatives of...
Yearbook 2014 Costa Rica. The first round of the presidential election on February 2 was a great success for the unprecedented Luís Guillermo Solís from the left-wing Citizens Action (PAC). During most of the...
Yearbook 2014 Canada. Large parts of Canada were affected in January by snow storms and extreme cold, slightly below -30 degrees in the prairie landscapes, which affected air traffic. Thousands of households in Newfoundland...
Yearbook 2014 Belize. In January, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington and Guatemalan Foreign Minister Fernando Carrera, with the help of José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the United States Cooperation Organization OAS, signed an agreement...
Yearbook 2014 Barbados. In 2014, the final phase of the expansion of the deep-sea port in the capital Bridgetown began. The purpose of enlargement is to be able to receive larger vessels. These are...
Yearbook 2014 Bahamas. In January, the country’s major crime problems prompted Prime Minister Perry Christie to step up the so-called war on crime. Leading opposition politicians demanded, among other things, that the death penalty...
Yearbook 2014 Antigua and Barbuda. After spending ten years in government, the United Progressive Party (UP) and Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer lost big in the June parliamentary elections. Instead, the Labor Party (ALP) recaptured...
Natural conditions North America is the third largest continent on earth and part of the double continent America. As a cultural earth part of North America, it encompasses the territories of the USA and...