By Sir Ronald Sanders | Barbados Today On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered its Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law, in a case led by two courageous leaders of Small Island States, Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda and former Prime Minister […]
Editorial credit: Sandor Szmutko / Shutterstock.com By Amalendu Misra | The Conversation An advance team of Kenyan special forces police have arrived in the troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti. They are part of a larger UN-backed “support” mission tasked with establishing order, pushing back the advances of criminal gangs and allowing the freshly appointed interim […]
It is one of the most ambitious projects that the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) Unit has supported, and its success is expected to dramatically alter how MSMEs are perceived in the marketplace. The government of Barbados, through the Ministry of Energy and Business is partnering with the Barbados Stock […]
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr Bharrat Jagdeo. Photo courtesy: Department of Public Information By Department of Public Information A total of 242 Amerindian, riverine, and remote villages in Guyana are currently undertaking transformative projects worth $4.7 billion, funded by carbon credits under the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) 2030. These initiatives […]
By James E. Causey I remember the first time I witnessed domestic violence. I was 7 years old and spent the night at my cousin’s house. His mother, whom I affectionately called Cousin Pearl, was beautiful. Her husband was nice until his weekend drinking benders. It would start with one can of Schlitz Malt Liquor, […]
Photo courtesy: PAHO By PAHO Geneva, May 27, 2024 — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and global health initiative Unitaid signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to intensify collaboration to end 30 preventable communicable diseases in the region by 2030, such as cervical cancer, HIV and Chagas disease. The agreement, signed on the margins […]
Editorial credit: Debbie Ann Powell / Shutterstock.com By Harry Johnson | eturbonews Jamaica’s hosting of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s (CHTA) flagship sales event, Caribbean Travel Marketplace 42, from May 20- 23, has been hailed as “a resounding success” by Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett. With some 1,200 delegates from more than 45 countries […]
Photo courtesy: Department of Public Information By Department of Public Information President, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Saturday visited the communities of Susannah’s Rust and Dora, along the Demerara River, where he outlined the government’s goals for community development through increased agriculture. Susannah’s Rust, the president noted, sits on thousands of acres of fertile land […]
Editorial credit: Wagner Santos de Almeida / Shutterstock.com By Matthew Smith | The Conversation One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the most notorious immigration legislation in American history. Signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduced immigration from eastern and southern Europe and practically barred it from Asia. How the law did […]
UB President Satish K. Tripathi signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Sir Hilary Beckles, vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies. Photo courtesy: Nancy J. Parisi By Laurie Kaiser | University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo President Satish K. Tripathi signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with leaders of the […]